P. J. O'Rourke Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

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I don't watch much television.

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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

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Regulation creates a moral hazard.

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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

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A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.

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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

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Kids are disorganized.

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

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The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

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Freedom is for fun.

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

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