Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.
Mitch McConnell
Straw purchasing is illegal.
Jason Chaffetz
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
Litigation solves everything.
Jon Cryer
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
Michael Eric Dyson
The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
The brilliance of Andrew Breitbart is that he has created thousands of Andrew Breitbarts.
I want my music to do the explaining.
Demi Lovato
If you are explaining, you are losing.
J. C. Watts
People have to find ways of explaining the work.
Andres Serrano
I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.
I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Life is earnest - and always has been.
Richard Wagner
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
Adrien Brody
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel Johnson
I just really like it when things are earnest.
Jenny Slate
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't'
George Reeves
I knock on my board to unjinx myself.
Chloe Kim
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
David O. Selznick
Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
I would never let myself knock out a journalist.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Lying is the rule, not the exception.
Pamela Meyer
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.
Linda Sue Park
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Jacques Chirac
I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
Moon Unit Zappa
I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.
Chris Elliott
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Be you. Everyone else is already taken.
Iskra Lawrence
I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
Jack Nicklaus
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.
When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.
I'm glad to share my views.
Scott McClellan
I respect passionate views.
Lynn Good
Humanity is not common in its views.
Mitt Romney
I am not ready to back away from my views.
Alexei Navalny
The universe is wider than our views of it.
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
I like debating policy.
Anthony Scaramucci
Policy gets out of date.
Suzan DelBene
Animosity is not a policy.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
I have a no-apology policy.
Foreign policy is important.
People want smart energy policy.
I am a serious guy.
Stefano Gabbana
I don't do serious.
David Boreanaz
Boxing is always serious.
Juan Manuel Marquez
I'm a very serious person.
Tom Ford
I am serious about my sleep.
Winning is a serious matter.
Funny is when you're serious.
I admire Obama.
Nicola Sturgeon
Obama isn't funny.
Alexandra Petri
I voted for Obama.
Derek Jeter
I'm an Obama chick.
Judy Blume
I like Barack Obama.
Unity is Obama's theme.
I could have beat Obama.
You've got to be brave.
Katherine Kelly
You've got to be realistic.
Patrick Rafter
You've got to be inclusive.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
You've got to believe in God.
Mo Farah
You've got to catch the ball.
Live the life you've dreamed.
You've got to grow up sometime.
I'm rarely wrong.
Eileen Atkins
It's wrong to kill.
Charles Evers
Love is never wrong.
Melissa Etheridge
Dylan can do no wrong.
Warren Zevon
Nothing wrong with pop!
Eating people is wrong.
Wrong is for other people.
We need a great president.
Donald Trump
I am an austere president.
Jose Mujica
The president has to govern.
Amy Klobuchar
I ran for president in 1996.
Arlen Specter
I believe in President Obama.
I'm not running for president.
Some day I shall be President.
Everyone can change.
Hillary Clinton
Everyone has a past.
Darrell Issa
Everyone loves twins.
Cole Sprouse
I'm not for everyone.
Tig Notaro
Everyone has a story.
I look like everyone.
Everyone loves bunnies.