1.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl
2.
My life needs editing.
Mort Sahl
3.
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
Mort Sahl
4.
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.
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5.
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
Mort Sahl
6.
When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!
Mort Sahl
7.
There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
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8.
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl
9.
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
Mort Sahl
10.
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
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11.
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
Mort Sahl
12.
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
Mort Sahl
13.
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
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14.
That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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15.
A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
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16.
In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
Mort Sahl
17.
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
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18.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.
Mort Sahl
19.
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.
Mort Sahl
20.
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.
Mort Sahl
21.
I found people looked better when they laughed
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22.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Mort Sahl
23.
I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
Mort Sahl
24.
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.
Mort Sahl
25.
We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
Mort Sahl
26.
Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
Mort Sahl
27.
Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels
running the government.
Mort Sahl
28.
If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?
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29.
I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.
Mort Sahl
30.
You haven't lived until you've died in California
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31.
If you can't join them, beat them.
Mort Sahl
32.
The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.
Mort Sahl
33.
Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?
Mort Sahl
34.
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
Mort Sahl
35.
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
36.
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
Mort Sahl
37.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
Mort Sahl
38.
I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!
Mort Sahl
39.
Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
Mort Sahl
40.
I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?
Mort Sahl
41.
You know me, I love lost causes.
Mort Sahl
42.
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
Mort Sahl
43.
Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
Mort Sahl
44.
New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.
Mort Sahl
45.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.
Mort Sahl
46.
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Mort Sahl
47.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Mort Sahl
48.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
Mort Sahl
49.
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?
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50.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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