Denis Leary Quotes

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

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.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

No politician has ever been defeated by a speech he didn’t give.

It's very hard to like politicians enough to write short stories about them.

It seems ironic that the same convention which thinks Will Rogers is a clown thinks Huey Long is a statesman.

One should be very careful indeed about using such loaded terms as ‘frustration,’ ‘anger,’ and especially ‘resentment’ to explain populism. One should at least face up to the political consequences of such psychologizing diagnoses — namely, that they end up confirming those people’s view of ‘liberal elites’ as being not just deeply condescending but also constitutively unable to live up to their own democratic ideals by failing to take ordinary people at their word.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.

I'd love to have Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together. How amazing would that be?

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.

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.

To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.