April 30 - Monday Quote(s)

Saturday was the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and the President got in some good ones.

monday quotes: President Obama noted that they were enjoying dinner in an enormous hotel ballroom--“what Mitt Romney would call a little fixer-upper”. 

Acknowledging that both he and Romney have degrees from Harvard, though he has only one while Romney has two, he quoted Rick Santorum:  “What a snob”. 

Talking about his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show last week, the President said that Mr. Romney “asked if he could get some equal time on ‘The Merv Griffin Show’.”

Noting the presence of Newt Gingrich, he singled him out with: “Newt there’s still time, man!”.

President Obama mocked Republican criticism of his having eaten dog meat as a child in Indonesia and gave Sarah Palin a jab by tweaking her signature campaign joke. “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious.”

He spoke to the members of Congress who attended, thanking them for taking “a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight”.

Hillary Clinton got a mention for being photographed drinking a beer in a club during her visit to Colombia. “She won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena”.

Talking about the Secret Service, the President said he had to leave the dinner early because he had to make sure he got his Secret Service detail “home in time for their new curfew”.