Quotes & Jokes about Politics / page 6

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

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

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.

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

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

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

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.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

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.

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.

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.

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.