33 Quotes by Armando Iannucci

What’s funny about that office is it’s entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that’s great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

Any president’s second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

I’m a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you’ve been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

Puppetry of the Foetus Dr Gunther von Hagens uses latest scientific mini-stick techniques to poke foetuses inside the womb into performing children’s tales with a bloody twist.

There’s something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.