P. J. O'Rourke

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

Space has always been confusing to politics.

Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.