帕特里克·杰克·奥洛克是美国政治讽刺作家和记者。O Rourke是自由主义者卡托研究所的H.L.Menken研究员，是《大西洋月刊》、《美国观察家》和《每周标准报》的定期记者，也是国家公共广播电台游戏节目《等待等待》。
Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
公司腐败具有生态优势。这有助于保护被称为民主党人的物种，民主党人被认为在2000年就濒临灭绝。
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
人不是蚂蚁或蜜蜂。我们不是理性的、爱的、生的或死的集体。
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
不要在生日或圣诞节发送有趣的贺卡。当需要他们的欢乐效果时，把他们留作葬礼。
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
底特律是美丽的——尽管你可能必须像我一样是中西部工业区的孩子，才能看到它。
I'm really tired of virtue.
我真的厌倦了美德。
In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
中年的时候，我们都很笨。
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
自由主义者想住在市中心。在美国各地——纽约、旧金山、芝加哥、乔治敦——有一群自由主义者生活在粗犷、丑陋、肮脏的社区，明智的人们正试图逃离。
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
安然所做的，是隐藏着债务，是什么让投资者怀着莫名其妙的敬畏之情欣然接受它。