P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people!

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

There are two kinds of politicians: The meanies and the wienies.

The Republicans got everything but the Democratic donkey.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

Politics is awful.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.