Prostitutes go to jail. Their customers go home and read the New York Times. In this country you're allowed to buy anything. If you need a shirt, you have a right to buy it. If you need sex, you don't. What's more important, sex or a shirt?

Jackie Mason

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I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

myself me trying world

If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.

laugh you politics speak

The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.

nothing talk republican party

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

you audience jokes change

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

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