Scott McClellan Quotes

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

You don’t have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

If I... if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30 years. Because wrestling one night a month at Madison Square Garden is easy. You never see a Hulk Hogan wrestle TLC matches against a superstar like Ryback. Because he had it easy. I wrestle physically demanding matches on free television, week in and week out. So much that my one year equals 30 of theirs. And I have attained this success, not... not because of you. I am successful not because of you. I am successful in spite of you.

I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.