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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

P. J. O'Rourke's Popular Quotes

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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…

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

- P. J. O'Rourke