Bud Abbott Quotes

“It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?”

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. ”

“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”

“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.”

“The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.”

“All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.”

“In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.”

“I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.”

“I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.”

“In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.”