Quotes about Political Ridicule

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

William Cullen Bryant

Go wretch. Resign thy Presidential chair. Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go search with curious eyes for horned frogs Mid the wild West of Louisiana bogs. Or where the Ohio rolls his turgid stream Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy fame.

Bryant, like most New Englanders did not trust Jefferson and saw anything the President did in its worst possible light. He even believed that Jefferson’s great interest in science was evidence of his lack of respect for religion. Nothing he could do was right, much like the Tea Party and President Barack Obama more than 200 years later.

Jon Stewart

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Jay Leno

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

Paul F. Tompkins

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.

William Stewart II

There was never such a winter for country sports as the last … I have very good hawks and hounds, but we have not had more success in any sport than tory-hunting. The gentlemen of the country have been so hearty in that chase that of 13 in the county … the last was killed two days before I left home.

The term “tories” then had nothing to do with politics. It was the name given to Irish Catholics who having been driven into the mountains by the English Protestants, turned to banditry. They were hunted down and mostly eliminated by 1683.

Stephen Harper

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jon Lovett

We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.

Janeane Garofalo

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

Rory Bremner

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Lewis Black

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

David Levine

Some politicians ask for the original of a cutting cartoon. They want to put it on their wall to show how they can take a joke.

Michael Che

I feel like it's a lot easier to parody Democrats just because they take themselves so seriously. I think Republicans have a little bit more of an open mind as to how ridiculous they are. Democrats pride themselves in being the highbrow, smart, right choice.

Political Ridicule Quotes