Quote

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Oliver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Writer
John William Oliver
Trusted
Democracy
Everyone
Like
Tambourine

More quotes by John Oliver

Image
If you’re asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
John Oliver
Image
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
John Oliver
Image
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
John Oliver
Image
Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
John Oliver
Image
I feel non-stop Brit shame!
John Oliver
Image
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
John Oliver
Image
Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.
John Oliver
Image
There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
John Oliver
Image
I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.
John Oliver
Image
I would hate to meet myself at 15.
John Oliver
Image
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
John Oliver
Image
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
John Oliver
Image
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
John Oliver
Image
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
John Oliver
Image
I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
John Oliver
Image
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
John Oliver
Image
There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
John Oliver
Image
I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.
John Oliver
Image
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
John Oliver
Image
Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
John Oliver