Stephen Tyrone Colbert (b. May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits. (Click for full Wikipedia article.)
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Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
Any religion whose messiah's name isn't recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.
Contrary to what people may say, there’s no upper limit to stupidity.
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self- imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
Equations are the devil's sentences.
I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit.
I can't prove it, but I can say it.
I love making observations. That one is a classic example.
I may be just an empty flesh terminal relying on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that, everything that makes me a unique human being, is still out there, somewhere, safe in the theoretical storage space owned by giant multi-national corporations.
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they wouldn't even have a religion if it wasn't for capital punishment.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. Through repetition, something becomes true, if you repeat it enough until it becomes true. Do I need to repeat that for you?
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Reporting the facts can change the course of history. Then again, so can Wikipedia.
The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.
The more you know, the sadder you get.
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time.
You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner.
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