PJ O'Rourke at Bastiat Prize Dinner

Selected quotations from PJ O'Rourke's speech at the 2009 Bastiat Prize Dinner.

Muggers are "practicing what I call 'freelance politics.'"

The only family farms left are in places like Peru and what they're growing is cocaine.

Are we going to take the cow to market and trade her for the magic beans of government regulation?

With thanks to Elisabeth Eaves (twitter.com/ElisabethEaves)