« When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. »

P. J. O’Rourke 

                               

Patrick Jake « P. J. » O’Rourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O’Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio‘s game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s, as well as two appearances on the comedy panel show Have I Got News for You in 1995 and 2004 respectively.