Kinky Friedman Quotes
"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Experience, Politics)
"Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive."
- Kinky Friedman
"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Students)
"The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Democrats, Republicans)
"The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: First)
"The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'"
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: God, Saying)
"The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Life, Spirit, Value)
"The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Teachers)
"These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: People, Books, Songs, World)
"We were a country band with a social conscience."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Conscience, Country)
"I see an issue I like, and I support it."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Support)
"We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Politicians)
"Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Home, People, Job)
"When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: First)
"William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another."
- Kinky Friedman
"Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Heart)
"You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Life, Financial, Pleasure)
"You struggle with your demons and you conquer them."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Struggle)
"Young people are the key to this election."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: People, Key)
"No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Change, Life, Nothing)
"We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Education, Winning, First, Public, Race)
"How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Design)
"Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Work, Musicians, Politicians, State)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Beauty, Beer, Eye)
"I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Drinking)
"I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Drinking)
"I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Life, Childhood, First, Preparation)
"I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough."
- Kinky Friedman
"I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Hair)
"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Property, Taxes, Want)
"I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!"
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: War)
"May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: God, Choice, May, Respect)
"And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Hell, Musicians, Politicians, State)
"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Marriage, Gay, Rest, Right, Support)
"Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Love, Money)
"If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Time)
"If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Civil rights, Country)
"I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Love, Money, May)
"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Women, Care, Old)
"I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Now, Prayer, Right, School)
"I'll sign anything except bad legislation."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Legislation)
"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Life, Childhood, Preparation)