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Here are a list of Quotes from the delightful Northern Irish Comedian Danny McCrossan

Even the most powerful lie detector invented couldn’t drag a secret out of a woman, however, women rarely have lunch with lie detectors… - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian

See women need to talk because they feel like they have to have adequate levels of communication in order to sustain a healthy and open relationship, whereas men are only driven to speak because of matters beyond their control, like not being able to find clean socks. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

In Pagan times, uninspired people made sacrifices at the altar, and today, thanks to marraige, many still do. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

When women are bored they do the usual things, they eat, they go shopping, they neurotically judge the looks of other women, but men, men invade another country! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

Anything that I’ve ever done that ended up worthwhile, initially scared me to death. Wether it was walking out on stage for that very first time, or asking a girl to include me in her plans for the future, but you know what, You have to risk everything sometimes or you risk even more. It’s not the challenges we face that define us, it’s the actions we take. - Danny McCrossan -Northern irish Comedian.

Everyone had big plans for me when I was younger, it was a cliche “Danny can do anything he wants to do” So I did the only thing I ever thought was worthwhile, bring laughter into the world. How I came to been seen as somewhat of a dissapointment to all those people who had made plans for me, well that still makes me chuckle. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

You learn alot in your teenage years, for instance I learned that if you’re ever being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a little tunnel, then onto a mini seesaw and then jump through a ring of fire, they’ve trained for that y’see. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

Asking people in Northern Ireland what they think of politics is like asking the Jews what they think of Hitler. - Danny MCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

There are too many warnings on packaging these days - defrost before eating - Use as directed - I mean, what’s next, you buy a packet of condoms, warning - may contain nuts! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

I say don’t conform, don’t allow yourself to be pigeon holed, it’s no good for the soul, and the pigeon doesn’t enjoy it either. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

I remember how nervous I was my very first gig and I remember when I walked out on stage and spoke those words, how the audience laughed and laughed. I swore, there and then, that one day I would have my revenge. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.

The sign said “This door to remain closed at all times” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Danny McCrossan

A blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
Liam Byrne

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De Beaumarchais

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S Truman

Politics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry Jackson

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.
Pete Coors

There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Dunne

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics]
Clare Short

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry Kissinger

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail A Bakunin

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Galbraith

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael Heseltine

Politics is not my domain. Charity, and charity alone, is my obsession.
Sister Consuelo Murphy

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuble argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst

There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
John Cory

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore H White

In their obsession with turning comedy into a branc of left wing politics, they forgot that the only point of comedy is to make people laugh.
Bernard Manning

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell Phillips

One lesson you'd better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the president.
Lyndon Johnson

In politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A Butler

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H White

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology
Daniel Yergin

The politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? (speech, 1980)
Roy Jenkins

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Landor

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth Clarke

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson

I thought it would be a good idea to go into Politics, maybe I am a little old... but you know... I'd love to be Chancellor of the Exchequer - That way I'll be united with my money!
Ken Dodd

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy Hattersley

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David Blunkett

Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.
John Arlott

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai Stevenson

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H White

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J Daley

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce



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