Quips & Quotes

“If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen.” – Willy Brandt, quoted in the Times

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill quoted in Forbes

“We had a storyline about an impeachment but we abandoned it because we were worried someone else might get to it first.” – actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus at the Emmys

“What I want from my critics is some bloody consistency, the great inveterate jalopies.” – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

“The love child of Nietzsche and Wodehouse.” – Matthew d’Ancona on Boris Johnson in the Guardian

“The most powerful delivery system ever invented for an idea is a story.” – Aaron Sorkin

“How many people work here? About half of them.” – quip about the United Nations quoted on RNZ

“Apple has donated $5 million tonight, which coincidentally is also the price of the new iPhone.”

– Stephen Colbert on the Hand in Hand hurricane relief benefit

“The wife of Donald Trump’s ethics adviser was caught having sex in a car with a prison inmate. Can you believe that? Donald Trump has an ethics adviser.”

– comedian Conan O’Brien

“Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.” – Kate Sheppard