Mo Rocca Quotes

United States, Humorist
January 28, 1969

Maurice Alberto Rocca is an American humorist, journalist and actor. He is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host and creator of My Grandmother's Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, and also the host of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation on CBS. He is the moderator of the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Bee. He is the host of the podcast Mobituaries with Mo Rocca from CBS News.

Also known as Journalist, Actor

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mo Rocca
- Christmas
- March
- Hated
I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Mo Rocca
- Things
- About
- Useless

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca
I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

Mo Rocca
Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

Mo Rocca
- Happens
- Laughing
- Wedding
Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Mo Rocca
Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Mo Rocca
- Sweaters
- Homemade
I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Mo Rocca
- Thinking
- Should
- Groups

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Mo Rocca
- Should
- Tennis
- Politician