Mark Thomas Quotes

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Mark Thomas

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
Mark Thomas

Love, Difficult, Able

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
Mark Thomas

Job, Lost, Kinds

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.
Mark Thomas

Work, Struggle, Him

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.
Mark Thomas

Through, Eyes, Shut

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
Mark Thomas

Thought, Away, Wait

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
Mark Thomas

Person, Police, Magic

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.
Mark Thomas

Democracy, Fighting, Four

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
Mark Thomas

Love, Politics, Put

People either leave or they stay.
Mark Thomas

Leave, Either, Stay

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
Mark Thomas

Job, Everyone, Thinks

The law is immoral.
Mark Thomas

The only deadline is the one I give myself.
Mark Thomas

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.
Mark Thomas

Whole, Step, Apart

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
Mark Thomas

Seen, Quite, Interest

We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
Mark Thomas

Political, Lucky, Quite

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
Mark Thomas

Soldiers, Military, Danger

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Nationality: British

Born: April 11, 1963

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