Garrison Keillor - American Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

View all Garrison Keillor Quotes

None of the men and women who voted for this bill has any right to speak in public about the rule of law anymore, or to take a high moral view of the Third Reich, or to wax poetic about the American Idea.

Garrison Keillor

Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people.

Garrison Keillor

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, You can't say that.

Garrison Keillor

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Garrison Keillor

To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, "Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota".

Garrison Keillor