Sarah Vowell Quotes

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

Donald Trump is the president. It's not a bad dream. It really happened. It's like being dumped by a lover and also being stuck in a nightmare.

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.

When I was president, I said I was a Ford, not a Lincoln. Well what we have now is a convertible Dodge

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.

I'm not President Bush

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

You know who Boehner is, right? He's that orange looking guy. See, for Republicans that counts as diversity.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.