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Politics won't allow for the truth.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

From P. J. O'Rourke

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

From P. J. O'Rourke

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

From P. J. O'Rourke

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

From P. J. O'Rourke

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

From P. J. O'Rourke

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

From P. J. O'Rourke

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

From P. J. O'Rourke

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

From P. J. O'Rourke

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

From P. J. O'Rourke

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