Paul Begala Quotes

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Everybody in politics writes a book and the books are dull—almost as dull as the people who wrote them.

As a rule, the most engaging political memoirs are written by those who are ending their political careers.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

He [Aneurin Bevan] will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

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.

Perhaps the Romney campaign should invest in a muzzle for its candidate. It might even be tax-deductible!

My whole career has been an Ann Coulter roast.

I've been making fun of Donald Trump - we all have - for 10 years, and just bringing up his name... I mean, even if you're supportive of Donald Trump, there's still a lot to make fun of.

My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned.

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

The name Noel Skelton is largely forgotten today, but his legacy in the Conservative Party in the 20th century was enormous.

People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

There's a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.