Quotes from Janeane Garofalo

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like.

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant, and generally nauseating.

They just opened a new Starbucks, in my living room.

The chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

"Human cloning would not lead to identical souls, because only God can create a soul," a panel set up by Pope John Paul has concluded. They also took care of a couple other things that were burning issues: Apparently, Trix are indeed for kids.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.