I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music... view

By: Bryn Terfel

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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life... view

By: Elton John

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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric... view

By: Dick Wolf

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I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate... view

By: Adam Rickitt

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When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them... view

By: Brendan Fraser

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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk... view

By: Barbara Walters

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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living... view

By: Ethel Merman

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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny... view

By: Ben Nicholson

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Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset... view

By: Mortimer Zuckerman

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I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts... view

By: George A. Romero

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I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about... view

By: Jonathan Shapiro

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We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses... view

By: Richard M. Daley

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