Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
“Women shouldn’t have to raise children on their own.”
--John Edwards, NPC June 2006
ALSO at DBKP.com:
"30 Love Child Scandal Quotes" --taken from the December portion of the scandal.
Taken from a 2006 John Edwards speech at the NPC:
“… And, as I mentioned earlier, we would create opportunities for young fathers to work and take responsibility for their children, and reward them for doing so…
“All of us — parents, clergy, teachers, public officials — we need to say that it is wrong when young men father children but don’t support them.
“It is wrong when girls and young women bear children they aren’t ready to care for.”
--John Edwards, Natl. Press Club Speech June 22, 2006,
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THE TWO AMERICAS
* “In one America, children grow up in a warm, supportive home environment with two loving parents.
“In the other America, illegitimacy and broken homes and absent fathers are the norm.”
--John Edwards
* “Is it too early to consider Elizabeth and Rielle as ‘The Two Americas’?”
--attributed to Gawker
* "There are two America's: one with Mrs. Edwards and the other with his mistress?"
--Rantburg: Oops! Cross Edwards Off Obama's VP List
* “Two Americas–one that wears condoms, the other that doesn’t."
--John Edwards: Looking for Rielle Hunter’s Baby News, VP Love, After Obama Endorsement
* "Talk about your Two Americas … or it it two faces John Edwards?"
--Scared Monkeys: NATIONAL ENQUIRER: John Edwards Caught Visiting Mistress (Rielle Hunter) & Secret Love Child … Two Americas … Baby Daddy?
* "I guess this is the “Two Americas” John Edwards is always jabbering about. You know, one sick with cancer at home and the other naked and waiting at the Ho-tel."
--Macranger, Mac's Mind: John Edwards Caught with Mistress
* "For God's sakes, a presidential candidate and current vice presidential contender is not exactly difficult to track. You could follow him around just by sniffing the wind for the hazelnut-and-rose scent of his personalized unisex body spray."
--Ace, Ace of Spades HQ: National Enquirer Edwards Reporter on How He Scooped the Entire MSM -- "It was easy"
* "If one is to believe the National Enquirer and the right-wing blogosphere which jumped on this story like a stud horse on a mare, Edwards was trysting with Rielle Hunter Monday night at the Beverly Hilton."
--Howard Gensler, Philadelphia Inquirer: Tattle: 'Enquirer' links John Edwards, Rielle Hunter
* "You know what's "funny" about John Edwards getting busted (pretty damn convincingly) by the National Enquirer while meeting his mistress and love child in a Los Angeles hotel? Edwards' cover story was that he was in LA to meet with the city's mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa — and Villaraigosa, like John Edwards, cheated on his wife right after a primary election! And also, wouldn't you know it, Villaraigosa's wife Corina was battling thyroid cancer at the time, sort of like how Elizabeth Edwards is now battling breast cancer. Isn't that... awful? Yes, yes it is. But also it's part of a long trend among certain American political candidates to ditch their sick wives. In fact, you might remember this disturbing behavior from such examples as: the current presumptive Republican nominee for president!"
--Ryan Tate, Gawker: Cheating On Your Sick Wife An Old Political Tradition
* “I think if when the baby is born its first words are not “Wahhhhhhhhh” but “I’m gonna sue” that would be good evidence of Edwards’ involvement.”
–Classical Values - The Life of Rielle
* “I think that, as you point out, there have been American presidents that at least according to the … stories we’ve all heard, that were not faithful, that were in fact good presidents. So I don’t think it controls the issue.”
–John Edwards, asked by Katie Couric on CBS Evening News about infidelity
* "I don't know what you're--none. I don't...none. I, I don't, I don't talk about these tabloids....er, uh..tabloids trash. I don't talk about these things. I'm here to talk about helping people."
--Edwards, responding to questions about the events at the Beverly Hilton by Houston reporter July 23, 2008.
* "Yet Silky Pony has been considered a leading candidate for the hollow Obamessiah's VP, so the MSM is obediently silent.
...
The silver lining to the absurd and potentially catastrophic Obama campaign: when it's finally over, no one will ever take the establishment media seriously again."
----Van Helsing, Right Wing News: Rielle Hunter Blackout
Everyone Has an Opinion on the Iraq War
Everyone seems to have an opinion--and a quote--on the War in Iraq: pro-War, anti-War, prognosticators, Hollywood stars and late night talk show hosts. We have sifted through hundreds of quotes, some as early as 1999, made on the War in Iraq and boiled them down to sixty.
Sixty Quotes on the War in Iraq
"Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier."
--Zell Miller (D) Georgia 2004
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
--Vice President Dick Cheney, on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
--Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."
--Actress/radio host Janeane Garofalo
"There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat."
--Jerry Nachman
"Our enemies around the globe gain great advantage by having the United States mired in an Iraqi civil war. Clearly, continuing to pursue the president's flawed escalation policy until at least July 2008 is not in the national interest of the United States."
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war."
--Jay Leno
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."
-–Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens," April 11, 2003
"There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq."
--Actor George Clooney
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
–-President Bush, standing under a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier, May 2, 2003
"I opposed going to war in Iraq. Sen. McCain was one of Washington's biggest supporters of the war."
--Presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama D-IL
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force– if necessary– to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.”
--Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army."
--Late night show host Conan O'Brien
“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — that this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq.”
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., April 19, 2007
“The president said, “Let’s send some more troops over there, and that will give the Iraqis the time to take care of themselves.” We sent other troops over there, and there are a lot of reasons the surge certainly hasn’t hurt. It’s helped. I recognize that.”
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., December 21, 2007
"There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. I ask them to come back to their senses,"
--Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki after Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton and other U.S. critics who have called for him to be replaced; Aug 26 07
"The former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions... It marks the end of the road for him and all who bullied and killed in his name... In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over. A hopeful day has arrived."
--George W. Bush after the capture of Saddam Hussein, December 15, 2003
"We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons."
--Saddam Hussein, before fighting started
"The latest rumor is the United States is working behind the scenes to try to find a 'safe haven' for Saddam Hussein. See if he agrees to step down and leave Iraq, we will relocate him. What a nightmare, where are you going to send a guy who thinks America is a nest of greedy imperialists intent on bleeding the third world of all their resources? I mean, besides Berkeley?"
--Jay Leno
"For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag."
--Zell Miller (D) Georgia 2004
"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
-—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, responding to a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq who asked him why troops had to dig through scrap metal to armor vehicles, Dec. 8, 2004
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
--President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves."
--Sen. Patrick Leahy
"With the regime's feared security forces nowhere to be seen, Iraqis dared to cheer U.S. troops and attack the symbols of Saddam's rule. They danced in the streets, waving rifles, palm fronds and flags, and defaced posters of the longtime Iraqi president..."
--CBS News report, as U.S. forces entered the city of Bagdad; April 9, 2003
"Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel."
--David Letterman
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
–-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, on Iraq's nuclear capabilities and the Bush administration's case for war, Sept. 8, 2002
"This is a great day for the new Iraq. These two particular people were at the head of a regime, there wasn't just a security threat because of its weapons programme, but was responsible, as we can see from the mass graves, for the torture and killing of thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqis. And the celebrations that are taking place are an indication of just how evil they were. And I think what is so important is that people understand that if we are able to make the progress that we want to make in Iraq, that is going to open up not just new opportunities for Iraqi people, it is going to increase the stability of that country, of the region, and therefore the security of the whole of the world. So I think it is a very, very important move forward and I think it is great news."
--Tony Blair on the killing of Saddam Hussein's sons, July 23, 2003
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
-- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
--Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.
"Saddam Hussein has a long history of harboring terrorists. Carlos the Jackal, Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, the most notorious terrorists of their era, all found shelter and support at one time in Baghdad. Intelligence sources say bin Laden's long relationship with the Iraqis began as he helped Sudan's fundamentalist government in their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction."
--ABC News report, January 14, 1999
"A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag."
--David Letterman
"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them."
--Vice President Dick Cheney
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
--President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
'The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry."
--DNC head Howard Dean
“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
--Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program.
He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.”
--Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own."
-- Jay Leno
"We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida."
--MSNBC's Chris Matthews
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
--Film producer Michael Moore
"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."
--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
"Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?"
--Jay Leno
"Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations."
--Executed OK City bomber Timothy McVeigh
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition."
--House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war."
--Activist Phyllis Schlafly
"Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?"
--Actress Susan Sarandon
"Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard."
--David Letterman
"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."
--Sen. Charles Schumer
"Now, it isn't gong to be over in 24 hours, but it isn't going to be months either."
--Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
--Cindy Sheehan
"Our military superiority is so great -- it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days... Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long."
--Former President Bill Clinton, 3/6/03
'The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."
--Radio host/comic Dennis Miller
"Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon."
--Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX
"My name is Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq, and I want to negotiate."
- Saddam to U.S. troops who captured him; Dec. 13, 2003
"We got him."
--Then U.S. governor of Iraq Paul Bremer announcing the capture of Saddam; Dec. 14, 2003
"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."
--Actor Donald Sutherland
"I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with."
--Comic Denis Leary
"The criminal little Bush has committed a crime against humanity."
- Saddam, on first day of invasion; March 20, 2003
"Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties."
--Financier George Soros
"What happened today is unbelievable, it's a great joy that I can't even express. I can't believe what I'm seeing on television--Saddam led to the gallows where he hanged tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis by the same method."
--Mohammad Kadhim, a journalist in Basra; Dec 30, 2006
"As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription."
--Craig Kilborn
by Mondoreb
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SPECIAL TV BONUS!
13 Quotes
ABOUT John McCain
by Jay Leno, Ann Coulter, more!
John McCain insists that he is a conservative.
But he isn't on tax cuts and class envy; neither is he conserverative on what to do--or rather, not do--about the man-made climate change (MMCC) hoax.
He's certainly not conservative on enforcing our illegal immigration laws or enforcing border security.
John McCain doesn't even to pretend to like conservatives--unless there's an election going on.
BUT, McCain maintains he is a conservative--and the Mainstream Press plays along, probably because it gives them a storyline.
This all may be confusing to some readers: is he or isn't he?
Our only contribution toward solving the Is-McCain-a-Conservative Mystery is to present the following four dozen John McCain quotes: 36 by McCain and a baker's dozen about him.
So here are 36 John McCain Quotes, plus 13 bonus quotes about McCain.
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"The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.'"
--When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00
"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk."
--to fellow GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?", 2/21/00
“We give the millionaire a $2,000 refund. Gov. Bush gives him $50,000.”
—-On the Bush tax cuts, Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 2000.
A few years ago I traveled to the area of Svalbard, Norway, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean. I was shown the southernmost point where a glacier had reached 20 years earlier. From there, we had to venture northward up the fjord to see where that same glacier ends today – because all the rest has melted. On a trip to Alaska, I heard about a national park visitor's center that was built to offer a picture-perfect view of a large glacier. Problem is, the glacier is gone. A work of nature that took ages to form had melted away in a matter of decades."
-- John McCain, May 12 2008
"Dishonest and dishonorable."
--John McCain, on the Swift Boats Vets
The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
--John McCain
"I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there."
--John McCain, Feb. 28 2008
"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room."
--to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation
“There’s one big difference between me and the others—I won’t take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I’ll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.”
-—McCain campaign commercial, January 2000.
"Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
--Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire in January after reporters asked him about Mitt Romney.
"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."
--John McCain on fellow RINO, ex-senator Chaffee
“I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country. A Treasury Department study found that almost no estate tax has been paid by lower- and middle-income taxpayers. But taxes have been paid on the estates of people who were in the highest 20% of the income distribution at the time of their death. It found that 91% of all estate taxes are paid by the estates of people whose annual income exceeded $190,000 around the time of their death."
--Senate floor statement opposing HR 8, a bill to permanently eliminate the death tax, June 11, 2002
"I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
--John McCain
"Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded."
--John McCain
"Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge."
--John McCain, May 12 2008
"John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We've been friends for years. Obviously, I would entertain it."
--When asked if he would entertain being Kerry's VP if asked, 3/10/04
"Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens."
--John McCain on Immigration
"I believe that marijuana is a gateway drug. That is my view and that's the view of the federal drug czar and other experts, although that is also a debatable question. I think that there is much more effective ways of relieving pain and suffering than the use of marijuana, and so therefore I view it as something that I do not support. That's just my considered opinion, I'd be glad to receive additional information."
--(August 11, 2007, house party in Milton, New Hampshire)
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."
--at a 1998 Republican fundraiser
"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."
--John McCain, on why he's running
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
--John McCain
“In the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade”
--John McCain, on Roe V. Wade
"By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it."
--John McCain, on immigration 2/07
"Thanks for the question, you little jerk."
-- John McCain, after being asked by a high school student if he was too old to be president. For good measure, McCain then threatened to draft him.
"Turn yourself in so we can send you back to Mexico, ... It's not going to happen."
--John McCain, on enforcing present immigration laws
"I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President."
--On possible opponent, Hillary Clinton 2/20/05
"It is my sincere hope that even if you believe I have occasionally erred in my reasoning as a fellow conservative, you will still allow that I have, in many ways important to all of us, maintained the record of a conservative."
--John McCain, on asking conservatives to support him as a conservative
"I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."
--John McCain in 2004
" Of course they didn't expect to receive benefits they had to pay here illegally ... The whole thrust of this legislation is to give them not only Social Security benefits but, as importantly, the protections under the law, as they now live in the shadows and are exploited and mistreated in many cases."
--John McCain, on immigration April 2, 2004
"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole."
--to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow GOP Senator Pete Domenici in a Senate budget hearing
Leonardo DiCaprio is "an androgynous wimp."
--John McCain.
"Get started today and fill out your bracket to be eligible to win a McCain 2008 fleece, hat or pin for your prognostication prowess."
-- Sen. John McCain's campaign website.
"Gambling on amateur athletics is wrong."
-- McCain, in a statement introducing legislation in May 2003 to ban gambling on amateur sports.
“I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …
--John McCain
“I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.”
—-Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over
Tax Cut Plans,” Los Angeles Times, and “GOP Rivals Bicker on Taxes,”
Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2000.
"I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
--John McCain, on the choices between respecting the Constitution and Bill of Right and McCain-Feingold 4/29/06
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
--John McCain
13 Quotes about John McCain
"The irony is, the only people McCain can count on to vote for him are the very Republicans he despises -- at least those of us who can get drunk enough on Election Day to pull the lever for him."
--Ann Coulter
You know there will be three things in a John McCain sentence: a noun, a verb and a reference to his being a P.O.W.
--paraphrase of a Joseph Biden quote about Rudy Giuliani
"Congratulations to Senator John McCain, the big winner in Florida. ... You know, this was what they call a GOP-only primary. So McCain had to win over a whole new voter group for him -- Republicans."
--Jay Leno
"He said that anyone who said that he [McCain] supported amnesty is a "liar".
--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08
"John Kerry said I can't tell you how proud I am to have John Edwards on my team, especially after John McCain turned me down."
--Jay Leno
"John McCain opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because he polled soccer moms and found out they were against drilling. They thought it sounded too much like going to the dentist. McCain wanted to ensure that he remained beloved by the two pillars of his base: "centrists" and New York Times reporters."
--Ann Coulter
"John Edwards is on the campaign trail. He's now doing something called his 'Poverty Tour', where he's visiting people who have no money and no hope. In fact, his first stop today: John McCain's headquarters."
--Jay Leno
"The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
-- Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has known McCain for 35 years.
“I’d rather slit a vein than vote for John McCain.” Nice bumper sticker. Many conservatives aren’t just saying “No” to John McCain. They’re saying, “Hell, no!”
--unnamed woman at GOP event
"Congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire. Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent five and a half years in prison then went into politics. Usually it's the other way around."
--Jay Leno
"I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don't want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they'll continue to send money home."
--Juan Hernandez, Hispanic outreach director for John McCain
"Mexico first!"
--Hernandez
"He opposes oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska and has joined with Sen. Joe Lieberman to cosponsor legislation that would require that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010 — a measure sure to result in substantial increases in electricity and gasoline costs."
--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08
36 quotes by John McCain and 13 quotes about McCain.
Just the way to start your day off right.
compiled by Mondoreb
(Originally published February 13, 2008 as "John McCain: Thirty Quotes From the Conservative Candidate"; Updated July 2, 2008)
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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
* If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
* Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
* Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
* The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
* Always do whatever's next.
* When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
* Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
* Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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* When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
* Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
* Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
* You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
* One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
* One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
* I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
* Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
* Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
* May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
* I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
* Women like silent men; they think they're listening.
* I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
* I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
* Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
* I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
* If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
* I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
* There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
* The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
* Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
by Mondoreb
Sources:
* George Carlin Quotes
* George Carlin Quotes
* lesliehawes
George Carlin asked some good questions. But, did anyone ever come up with any answers to them?
Comedian George Carlin is dead at 71 of heart failure. Although his humor in his later years became unfunny to some, Carlin made some telling observations--and asked some sly questions--especially earlier in his career.
We now present 12 questions asked by Carlin.
1 When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
2 When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
3 Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?
4 When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
5 Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
6 Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
7 Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
8 If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
9 Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
10 What if there were no hypothetical questions?
11 I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
12 "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
How many of the 12 questions were you able to answer?
ALSO at DBKP.com:
* George Carlin: Comedian Dead at 71
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* George Carlin Quotes
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
--Malachy McCourt
The "angry white male" is old and busted news. New and hot is the "angry liberal".
Why are liberals angry? 15 quotes that might shed some light on the phenomenon of The Angry Liberal.
"We have been too nice. We have been too polite."
--Ann Lewis, veteran strategist with the Democratic National Committee, where the official party weblog is called "Kicking Ass."
"He who angers you conquers you."
--Elizabeth Kenny
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Q: Anybody else see the outrage on the part of liberals at ABC because they had the 'audacity' to ask the Holy Messiah Obama slightly tougher questions than say 'do you wear boxers or briefs'? Imagine for a second that John McCain had had a fundraiser for his campaign years ago with Timothy McVeigh. How is it unfair to ask Obama about his personal relationship with a DOMESTIC TERRORIST? Why are liberals angry over this?
A: People who are not secure in their positions do not like to be questioned. Those who are secure, encourage questioning because it gives them the opportunity to convince others.
--Answers, Yahoo.com
"Liberals enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives, who are religious fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing ideas."
--Ann Coulter
"Get mad, then get over it."
--Colin Powell
""My contribution to the civility of the dialogue has been to get down and say, 'You're lying, and we're going to call you on it.' "
--Al Franken, MN senate candidate and talk radio host
“[T]he decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants. This was cheating, and a violation of the judicial oath.”
--Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor
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"I was very angry. I was angry for a period of two days."
--Keith Olbermann, explaining to Bill Moyers his reaction upon reading in August of 2006 about Don Rumsfeld talking to the veterans and talking about how "every-- everyone who was in opposition to the Iraq War policy, the so-called war on terror, even to some degree the Bush administration, was the equivalent in his mind to the Nazi appeasers of the 1930s."
"Republicans had better worry. Angry people are motivated to get out to vote. If they can channel that anger into something constructive, they can literally upset the presidency."
--Paul Weyrich, veteran conservative organizer
"I think a lot of people felt the media was giving a pass to Bush."
--"Bill Scher, a 31-year old publicist who runs LiberalOasis.com
"Liberals believe that men--left to their own devices--are not to be trusted. They also believe in the goodness of government; a government composed of men. This paradox may help explain why many liberals are angry much of the time."
--RE Bierce
"Sure, liberals still seethe from a doubtful election, an illegal war and political prosecutions. But there's a genuine anger out there engendered by something rooted far deeper in the past: a quarter-century of callous right-wing tactics. Its purveyors now carping about liberal anger have no one to blame but themselves."
--P.M. Carpenter, History News Network
"I thought liberalism was supposed to be all about tolerance and diversity and stuff. I guess that applies only to skin, but not to thought or ideas."
--Fred Dooley, Real Debate Wisconsin
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
--Phyllis Diller
Okay, a confession: the last quote could apply to liberals or conservatives.
by Mondoreb
images: variety.blogs
Source:
* paradox
* When Angry Liberals Attack
* Entertainment for Angry Liberals
* Why are liberals angry at Stephanapolous for asking Obama totally legitimate questions?
* Why Liberals are Angry
* Why Are Liberals so Angry?
* Liberals Finding Their Voice--and It's Angry
* Bill Moyers talks with MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
* Anger quotes
"One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all."
--Ronald Reagan, on the international reaction to the U.S. invasion of Grenada, November 3, 1983
The above quote just about summed up The Great Communicator's take on pegging U.S. foreign policy to international approval rates.
Liberals take a different view. Seemingly, liberals equate international approval --especially by the Europeans--with the worthiness of a U.S. foreign policy goal.
What would American foreign policy look like under Democrats/liberals? Forget about Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the last two Democrat presidents, and let them tell it in their own words.
Twenty liberal quotes about the United States and other countries.
"There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud."
--Edward Kennedy, Democrat Senator, MA. Kennedy also said "We've known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeing and developing weapons of mass destruction." September 27, 2002.
"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
--Ramsey Clark, former Democrat Attorney General
"[T]he war in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades."
--Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, March 19, 2008
"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week."
--Harry Reid, Democrat Senate Majority Leader, April 18 2007
"I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate."
--Michael Moore
"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
--Patty Murray- Democratic Senator Washington (speech to a high school honors class)
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
--Jimmy Carter. Carter inaugurated full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1979, thus cutting formal U. S. ties with the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. Conservatives severely criticized the treaties as a “sellout” of vital American interests.
"He betrayed this country! He played on our fears! He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure pre-ordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!"
--Al Gore. Gore also said, "We know that [Saddam Hussein] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." September 23, 2002.
“This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not made America safer."
--Nancy Pelosi, Democrat House Leader, September 24, 2004
"In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the 'W' stands for -- wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for our parents, wrong for our values. Wrong, wrong, wrong for America."
John Edwards- Democratic Senator North Carolina (February 23, 2003 )
"Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell."
--Bill Clinton, former Democrat president who was "obsessed with terrorism"
"[Iraq is] the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States--worse than a civil war."
--Al Gore
"Did I expect George Bush to f--- it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."
--John Kerry, Democratic Senator Massachusetts
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown."
--Marcy Kaptur- Democratic Representative Ohio
"Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy."
--Harry Belafonte. Belefonte played an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier in "Buck and the Preacher".
"I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn't have to kill them for their oil."
--Bill Mahr , Larry King Live (November 1, 2002)
"I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everything they stand for. It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating."
--Jessica Lange, film festival in Spain (September 25, 2002)
"We don't know whether in the long run the Iraqi people are better off, and the most important thing is we don't know whether we're better off."
--Howard Dean - Former Democrat Governor of Vermont and Democrat Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
--Woody Harrelson. Actor Harrelson played a colonel in the movie, Pinkville.
"Bush says you're either with us or against us. I don't know who 'us' is. I say to Mr. Bush—this is what democracy looks like. We will not give our daughters and sons for a war for oil."
--Susan Sarandon. Sarandon played the wife of a retired army military police sergeant in "Valley of Elah".
That's the way liberal foreign policy would work.
The reader might want to print this out for quick reference.
One last well-known quote by Ronald Reagan sums up conservative reaction to the above collection:
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
by Mondoreb
image: dbkp
Sources:
* Quotes: Twenty Foreign Policy Quotes by Liberals
* Stupid Liberal Quotes
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A Baker's Dozen of Ronald Reagan Quotes
Do you miss this guy? I know I sure as hell do...
'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose.'
"The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant;
it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'
'Of the four wars in my lifetime,
none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'
'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like
if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'
'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government
but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.'
'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end
and no sense of responsibility at the other.'
'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth
is a government program.'
'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'
'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.'
'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards;
if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.'
'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'
'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God,
then we will be a nation gone under.'
= = =
by RidesAPaleHorse
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Source: Missing Reagan: Baker's Dozen of Ronald Reagan Quotes
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DBKP Library Stories and Videos of Quotes by people, both famous and otherwise, in the the news. 22 stories and counting.
by Mondoreb
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Louis Farrakhan insists he's misunderstood and his quotes are "taken out of context".
We assembled a body of Louis Farrakhan quotes from throughout his public speaking.
The reader can then decide better for themselves about Farrakhan's intent.
From Wikipedia:
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933), is the acting head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Perhaps the most provocative aspect of Farrakhan's political philosophy are comments he has made that have widely been seen as antisemitic.
Twenty controversial and anti-semitic quotes from the leader of the Nation of Islam.
"They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters."
-- Louis Farrakhan, on Hezbollah, at District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, April 22, 1996
"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road."
--Saviours' Day speech, Chicago, February 1998
"White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet."
--Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2000
"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name."
-- Louis Farrakhan, 1984
"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."
"The same year they set up the IRS, they set up the FBI. And the same year they set up the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith… It could be a coincidence… [I want] to see black intellectuals free… I want to see them not controlled by members of the Jewish community."
"...America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control."
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man."
"It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people."
"Dewey, Kant and Hegel, and the rabbis that wrote the Talmud, make blacks inferior."
"Murder and lying comes easy for white people."
"I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government ...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control ... "
--Meet The Press interview, April 1997
"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles."
"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years."
-- Louis Farrakhan, City College audience in New York
"I recognized that the black man will never be free until we address the relationship between blacks and Jews."
"America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed."
"Countless times over the years I have explained that I never referred to Judaism as a dirty religion, but, clearly referred to the machinations of those who hide behind the shield of Judaism while using unjust political means to achieve their objectives."
This was distilled in the New York tabloids and other media saying, "Farrakhan calls Judaism a gutter religion." As a Muslim, I revere Abraham, Moses, and all the Prophets who Allah (God) sent to the children of Israel. I believe in the scriptures brought by these Prophets and the Laws of Allah (God) as expressed in the Torah. I would never refer to the Revealed Word of Allah (God) -- the basis of Jewish Faith -- as "dirty" or "gutter."
--Letter to the Wall Street Journal June 18, 1997
"These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality, [and] Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government [on the war in Iraq]"
--February 2006 NOI event
"History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself."
The reader can decide.
Is it possible that these quotes were "taken out of context?"
compiled by Mondoreb
images:
* time
* bmore
Sources:
* Quotes from Louis Farrakhan
* Islam Quotes
* Louis Farrakhan
* Quotes from Today's Civil Rights Movement
* Louis Farrakhan Quote
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