Easy Targets Quotes

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.