"It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge."

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Source : "From our own correspondent". Interview with Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2007.

John Oliver

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“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss...”
“Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?”
“When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.”
“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.”
“She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.59, Wendy Lamb Books
“As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.”

Source : "The Motown missionary" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2000.
“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”

Source : "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.
“I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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