Obama White House Correspondents Dinner Quotes & Sayings

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work. — Edward Jenks

The U.K. really is made up of four nations that never really became one. — Carwyn Jones

We should be sensitive to the culture with which we live. — Asa Don Brown

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates

Oh my God, you're huge. She struggled to get her hands to the ends of the long sleeves. The garment hung to her knees. She glanced up to see his lips pressed together, like he was choking on a laugh. The corners of his eyes wee crinkled and amusement flickered in his heated gaze. — Krystal Shannan

Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years. — David Letterman

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. — Naeem Khan

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense. — Scott Eastwood

His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone. — Aline Ohanesian

A promise means nothing...It's a statement of present want, not future reality. — Lynne Matson

By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book. — John Vaillant

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice. — John Lasseter

Commenting on print journalism at the Commenting on print journalism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: "Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor's office and see what a print magazine actually looks like. — Joel McHale

He treated me like I was his heart; like he needed me to exist; like he'd do anything in his power to make me happy. — Lynda LeeAnne

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. — Rodney Dangerfield