Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.


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If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the exte...
DICK CHENEY
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, compreh...
DICK CHENEY
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama admin...
DICK CHENEY
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
DICK CHENEY
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
DICK CHENEY
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying ...
DICK CHENEY
I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out ...
DICK CHENEY
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gatheri...
DICK CHENEY
Direct threats require decisive action.
DICK CHENEY
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori...
DICK CHENEY
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce...
DICK CHENEY
I am a deficit hawk.
DICK CHENEY
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incom...
DICK CHENEY
I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most contr...
DICK CHENEY
I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful ...
DICK CHENEY
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being s...
DICK CHENEY
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes t...
DICK DURBIN
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and ...
DICK YORK
Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about co...
DICK GREGORY
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarsh...
DICK GEPHARDT
For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to pu...
DICK DALE
There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar...
BERNARD DICK
It's a resource for our students in our film courses. And when we do these series for the community,...
BERNARD DICK
We have a very fine resource here.
BERNARD DICK
I wanted a mix of 'B' films and first-class films, because I don't look down my nose at 'B' films. W...
BERNARD DICK
I don't know how many colleges would have a [film] collection of one particular studio.
BERNARD DICK
I went over his notes to 'All the King's Men,' and he sounds like a college professor, talking about...
BERNARD DICK
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the...
DICK DALE
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY
It felt good because they've murdered us for the last two years.
ANDY DICK
The best advice he ever gave me was to keep it real, keep it simple, ... He was a big believer in no...
ANDY DICK
Maybe it's just because it's so damn cold there, ... You find humor in everything, 'cause the climat...
ANDY DICK
I don't even remember what I did in that movie, because I did it so long ago, ... I think I'm a craz...
ANDY DICK
The new movie I'm working on right now is very autobiographical. It's about a television actor who d...
ANDY DICK