Ferdinand Lassalle Quotes

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

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.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

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

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

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.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

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

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!