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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

P. J. O'Rourke's Popular Quotes

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

- P. J. O'Rourke

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

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Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their moti…

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When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

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Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I…

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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

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If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

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Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

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Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

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