Charles Kennedy Quotes

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

We make fun of our leaders.

I love President Bush. I think it's great we have a president who always looks like he's looking directly into the sun.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

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

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

I suppose we should all sing "Bail to the Chief.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

He [Clement Attlee] is a modest little man with much to be modest about.