Bob Gunton Quotes

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

I actually like Hillary Clinton. I like Barack Obama.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.

'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

Actors and entertainers can become parliamentarians, so why should parliamentarians not become entertainers and actors?

I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I'm dead serious when I say that - those are my heroes. I also like Ben Affleck.

Susan Rice has as much trouble with her memory as Hillary Clinton.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image was no longer feasible because politicians weren't the big personalities that they once were. But now it seems like we're coming out of that, I mean we've got Boris Johnson, and Trump overseas, and Jeremy Corbyn.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.