Meghan McCain Quotes

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

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

Oh, man. I think if anybody deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Pain, it's Donald Trump.

Even if Narendra Modi sneezes, people will find a reason to criticise him for that.

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

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

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.