P. J. O'Rourke East Quotations

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.