Subject: Places » America (Page 5)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. Well, I didn't live in this century.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Don't let the whole world come here and see our stuff; it just pisses them off.

television executive & comedian

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can’t be wrong!”

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country… and we haven’t seen them since.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The people of this country have allowed football to get completely out of hand, and that’s fortunate for my bank account.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

Part-Time Woman Wanted: What a country… even transvestites can get work.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

America is a large friendly dog in a small room; every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

(1889 – 1975) English historian

We might as well give them ours, we aren’t using it.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

(1934 – 1997) journalist

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everyone and still nobody likes him.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

(1932 – ) Trinidad-born British writer

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

(1891 – 1980) novelist & painter

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician