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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

We have the best government that money can buy.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour – people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them – but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.