Rahsheeda Ali | December 1, 2014 4:45 pm

Chris Rock is promoting his upcoming film, Top Five, but judging from his recent interview in New York magazine, it sounds like he’s ready to run for office. The comedian sat down with columnist truthful Rich and shared views on everything from the Obama administration to Ferguson, with his wounding humor dripping from every quote.

Below, read Rock’s most hilarious and truthful observations and learn why you’ll want him to be leader of the free world.

How Rock would cover Ferguson as reporter, using New York‘s Rich as a decoy:
“I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people. I would get you [Rich] to interview a bigwig, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d question the questions through you. And I would question them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most incredible interviews ever.”

The difference between George W. Bush and Barack Obama:
“There’s an benefit that Bush had that Obama doesn’t have. People thinking you’re dumb is an benefit. Obama started as a genius. It’s like, ‘What? I’ve got to keep doing that? That’s hard to do!’ So it’s not that Obama’s disappointing. It’s just his best album might have been his first album.”

On Obama’s governing strategy:
“When Obama first got elected, he should have let it all just drop. Just let the country flatline. Let the auto industry die. Don’t bail anyone out. In sports, that’s what any new [general administrator] does. They make sure that the catastrophe is on the old management and then they clean up. They don’t try to save old management’s mistakes.”

On the U.S.’s racial problems:
“When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

“So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be head. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be head for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, gorgeous, polite children. There have been smart, educated, gorgeous, polite black children for hundreds of years. The benefit that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”

How Ellen DeGeneres contributed to the LGBT movement:
“I always call Ellen DeGeneres the gay Rosa Parks. If Rosa Parks had one of the most standard daytime TV shows, I’m sure the civil-rights movement would’ve went a little bit quicker too.”

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