Lloyd Bentsen Quotes

Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.

I'm not a political comic.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

The passion which all Democrats seem to have for writing in Republican papers, and vice versa, is something astonishing, and it is only exceeded by their unconquerable desire to censure men of their own party.

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

Never attack a politician through his children.

These right wing talk radio show hosts can’t even deliver a pizza, much less a Presidential nomination.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

The Republican National Convention was a rage-athon featuring a parade of hemorrhoidal has-beens.