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What did P. J. O'Rourke say about Government?

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  • Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
  • Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
  • The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

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Here are the top most famous quotes about Government by P. J. O'Rourke.

  • Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
  • Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
  • The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
  • 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.
  • The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
  • If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
  • Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
  • Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
  • What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
  • We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.