Quotes & Jokes about Politics / page 6

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You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that.

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you work alone. Movies have to go under so much scrutiny. A stand-up special is a vision, and a movie is a consensus in a lot of ways.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Isn't it a little ironic here? We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.