Samuel Butler Quotes

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Man is by nature a political animal.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Politics is applesauce.

You have come here by the sovereign will of the people to cooperate with me in carrying out the mandate recently pronounced at the polls.

Everything appears to take long in Congress. This is democracy in action.

Consensus is the essence of the legislative process.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be hired and fired by the people. Don't like the laws? Fire the lawmakers.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.