Pat Paulsen famous quotes

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Rights #Should #Murderer

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Country #Circles #Wings

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wings #Bird #Middle

On the issue of inflation, I think I could solve it no matter how much money it took.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Thinking #Issues #Matter

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Running #Government #Half

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Song #Brother #Moving

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Beautiful #Land #Effort

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #Tired #Sick

If elected, I will win.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Winning #I Will Win

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Lying #Said

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Fall #Wine #Bags

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Eye #Growing #Realizing

Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #People #Dry

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Government #Immigration #United States

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Standards

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Fire #Tree #Forests

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Shallow

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Gun #Enough

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Baby #Kissing #Hands

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #White #House

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Thinking #Alive #Want

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
-- Pat Paulsen

#People #Hey #Bars

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Sex #Kids #Today

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Running #White #House

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
-- Pat Paulsen

#President #Mess

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Song #Men #Years

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Growing Up #Boys #America

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
-- Pat Paulsen

#Debt #Why Not #National Debt

I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #Eye #People

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Credit #Lasts #Needs

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?
-- Pat Paulsen

#Jobs #Thinking #Government

I don't need adult supervision.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Needs #Adults #Supervision

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Lying #Political #Trying

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #Long #Campaigns

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Arkansas #Administration #Would Be

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Years #Long #Littles

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Remember #Century

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.
-- Pat Paulsen

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
-- Pat Paulsen

#Gun #Moose #Spots

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
-- Pat Paulsen

#Wine #White #House

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'
-- Pat Paulsen

#White #House #World

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Lying #Order #Tactics

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Thinking #President #Plans

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Iowa #California #Where You Live