68 Quotes by Mark Russell

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton’s second term will be good for business. My business.

I’m not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I’m writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that’s kind of what happened with the youth movement in the ’70s.

I do jokes about what’s funny, and both sides are funny.

If the audience doesn’t like it, usually they’re just silent. But they’ve never all walked out at once.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he’ll be booed. I don’t care if he’s the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

The thing that you’re faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren’t careful. It’s that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

I think you can’t write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you’re just getting mad and it’s not going to be fun for anybody.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one’s sporting ability.