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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5431/">Quotes by <em>O'Rourke, P. J.</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Defense · 1 fans >>
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"Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?"

O'Rourke, P. J. · Drugs · 4 fans >>
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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Drugs · 3 fans >>
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"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

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"Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Elections · 2 fans >>
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"Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Farming and Farmers · 0 fans >>
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"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Free Will · 0 fans >>
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"Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves."

O'Rourke, P. J. · America · 0 fans >>
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"The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot."

O'Rourke, P. J. · Government · 1 fans >>
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

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