Sausage Making Quotes

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

In sausage, fat is a source of both delightfully porky flavor and a springy texture. Without enough fat, sausage will be dry and tasteless.

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

We all say that we want to repeal Obamacare, and we would all love a clean, full repeal. But the truth is, sometimes it's kind of like making sausage. You have to do it one step at a time. You've got to approach it from the standpoint that you make substantial gains today, and then the next opportunity, you make more.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

I think politics often seems remote, and anything we can do to show more of the workings - how you make the sausage - is useful.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

There’s a sausage machine on Capitol Hill. We’ve given the sausage machine the right kind of ingredients. Now it’s up to the sausage machine to turn out the right kind of legislation.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.