P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

I'm part of a party that I think values making sure that everyone in this country has an opportunity to succeed. That's why I'm a Democrat.

The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by the economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job some Republican wants.

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

I think Millennials are more progressive, more socially progressive, much more concerned about economic issues that impact the poor and middle class, and so that basically shows me that the Democratic party will have a bright future.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

The Democrats tax anything that moves.

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.