Latest Peter Sagal Quotes from Interviews

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• We know that the president [Donald Trump] watches "Saturday Night Live" because he tweets about it. He doesn't like it, but he keeps watching it.

  Peter Sagal

  Night, President, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

• According to Domino's head of marketing, whose job we are doing for her right now, quote, "it makes it easy for people to ask and receive something that they'll really use." It's cute. What better way to practice for your inevitable divorce than a gift you can easily divide evenly between the two of you?

  Peter Sagal

  Cute, Jobs, Divorce

  "Panel Round Two". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, wbaa.org. February 11, 2017.

• Being a model seems like a dream job - lots of new clothes, cocaine, dates with Leonardo DiCaprio. But that's just for lady models.

  Peter Sagal

  Dream, Jobs, Clothes

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 1, 2016.

• An Icelandic mayor goes on an anti-elf rant which gets him in trouble.

  Peter Sagal

  Goes On, Trouble, Mayors

  Source: www.npr.org

• Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

  Peter Sagal

  Leader, Screw Ups, World

  "Bluff The Listener". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

• So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these virtual cities, getting points for winning street races and killing people and generally creating mayhem. So, of course, we should make the robots practice driving in a violent, lawless dystopia.

  Peter Sagal

  Winning, Player, Race

  Source: www.npr.org

• If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have to have lots of practice before they're allowed to get out in a real car on the roads.

  Peter Sagal

  Real, Self, Practice

  Source: www.npr.org

• In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers.

  Peter Sagal

  Player, Phones, Cells

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Bill Kurtis, www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court observers said a unanimous decision from this court was slightly less likely than Scalia winning the annual Supreme Court wet robe contest.

  Peter Sagal

  Winning, Phones, Decision

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• Hillary Clinton, told a reporter that she and Bill aren't truly well-off, even though they're incredibly rich because they pay income taxes like everybody else. In fact, she says, they were so poor when they left the White House, they could hardly afford Bill's website memberships.

  Peter Sagal

  White, House, Bills

• [Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.

  Peter Sagal

  Hands, Secret, Hobos

• I am now gay 'cause I have watched Ronaldo...

  Peter Sagal

  Gay, Causes

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Bill Kurtis, www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• With two years till the nomination, both [Joe] Biden and [Hillary] Clinton are positioning themselves to be the Democratic nominee. And are they stressing their experience, their ideas, their excellent hair? No. They've been talking about their poverty.

  Peter Sagal

  Stress, Hair, Talking

• If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

  Peter Sagal

  Soccer, Years, Biting

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Bill Kurtis, www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

  Peter Sagal

  Italian, Player, Two

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• We love things with biting - "Twilight" movies, zombie movies, eating.

  Peter Sagal

  Twilight, Zombie, Biting

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

• UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

  Peter Sagal

  Order, Trying, Lists

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• On Valentine's Day, couples in Calgary can celebrate their love for each other with couples' nude yoga - great way to get in shape and see a side of your partner you've never seen before and never want to see again.

  Peter Sagal

  Couple, Valentine, Yoga

  Source: www.npr.org

• Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

  Peter Sagal

  Catholic, Church, England

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

• I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

  Peter Sagal

  Beautiful, Lakes, Cities

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

• Ben & Jerry's ice cream will try to make some marijuana ice cream, resulting in thousands of people simultaneously getting and curing ice cream headaches.

  Peter Sagal

  Marijuana, Ice Cream, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards.

  Peter Sagal

  Running, Weed, Marijuana

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 7, 2015.

• We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.

  Peter Sagal

  Color, Lava Lamps, Film

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 25, 2017.

• Former Sony CEO Amy Pascal - they threw her out of the headquarters, but they gave her a new office on the lot. But she can't move into it because it reeks of pot smoke. Apparently, this is true, the former tenant was Seth Rogan. And he, as we know, smokes so much weed, when he finally exhales, it looks like there's a new pope.

  Peter Sagal

  Weed, Moving, Office

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 7, 2015.

• Sometimes you just have to get out there and just help somebody face to face.

  Peter Sagal

  Faces, Helping, Sometimes

  "'Wait Wait' Host Peter Sagal Runs Boston Marathon As Guide". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, www.npr.org. April 21, 2014.