Bill Clinton Quotes

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Language does not make one an elite.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

If George W. Bush is a reformer, I'm an astronaut!

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.

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

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.