Top 250 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Miller

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

I lapsed into rude.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I rant, therefore I am.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless.

And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.