So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.