Frankie Boyle Quotes

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

I pass my days in a state of exasperation. First, with the fools who do not want any of the things that ought to be done, and second, with the equally obnoxious fools who insist upon so much that they cannot get anything done.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

When it comes down to the devil in the detail of dealing with the issues... and making real change, Trump, you don't have it. You've never had it.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

I've heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him. I was just 17 when he died, and he didn't know that I was funny.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

You can't meet Labour's tests by failing to provide answers.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

Talkers are no good doers.