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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."
"Oppression is opposition."
"A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government."
Explore more quotes by P. J. O'Rourke
"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."
"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
"One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling."
"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
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