Ruby Wax Quotes

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Diplomacy and coalition-building are hard work and not easy for any president.

I had a very good relationship with President Bill Clinton when I was prime minister.

Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.