John Weidman Quotes (8 Quotes)

This is a land where anyone can grow up to be president, but you know what We only have one president, and there are a lot of people who wanted to be president who didn't grow up to be president,

There's a character in Assassins who is so filled with rage that he wants to crash a plane into the White House, and that seemed just crazy before 911. It doesn't seem so crazy anymore.

We never gave them a song to express the unadulterated pain and grief which I think many of us feel when these kinds of things happened.

In 1990, '91, most Americans felt comfortable, a certain sense of complacency, I think they felt safe,

I think they respond to an assault on a national figure that feels frightening and that feels close to home and in some way that an attack on the man we define as the pre-eminent American feels like an attack on all Americans.

It's 100 feet long and 35 feet wide and pretty popular. Last year was the first year we had it and we do see people using it. We put it on the east side of Colby Park (6900 School St.) and try to keep the snow off it. If it starts cracking, we'll put a little more water on it.

What was really drawing me to the material was entirely unresolved feelings I still had from the age of 17. The Kennedy assassination was something that to me made no sense.

I have no sympathy for any of them. I think what Steve and I tried to do was to present them in ways that would invite the audience to see them not as freaks from another world, but to recognize things in them which we see in other people who are not crazed murderers.