“I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear
weapons in any circumstance… involving civilians. Let me scratch
that. There’s been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That’s not on the
table.”
—BARACK OBAMA
“What Giuliani is, is George Bush on steroids. Giuliani, Romney and
the rest of the Republicans running for the nomination are going to
give the country four more years of crony capitalism, which is exactly
what we have now. We have insurance companies and drug companies and
oil companies running this government. They need to be stopped. And
Giuliani just wants to empower them.”
—JOHN EDWARDS
“I’m a democrat and I can’t stand this president…. I’m here to
represent people. The people I represent don’t want to impeach
this clown.”
—EARL POMEROY
“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. The Supreme
Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice
Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another
Alito.”
—CHUCK SCHUMER
“While President Bush and Vice President Cheney continue to operate
as if they are leaders of a monarchy, Congress should censure them and
make it clear to this and future generations that their actions are
entirely unacceptable.
“If Congress does not act to formally admonish this White House then
the future of our democracy will be placed on a slippery slope in which
other presidents may point to the actions of this administration as
justification for further abuses of the Constitution. Congress cannot
allow such abuses of power and law, which is why Senator Feingold and I
will soon introduce these censure resolutions.”
—MAURICE HINCHEY
“I will be shortly introducing a censure resolution of the president
and the administration. One, on their getting us into the war of
Iraq—in Iraq and their failure to adequately prepare our military
and the misleading statements that have continued throughout the war in
Iraq. And the second, on this administration’s outrageous attack
on the rule of law, all the way from the illegal terrorist surveillance
program to their attitude about torture…. [T]his administration has
done the greatest assault on our Constitution perhaps in American
history.”
—RUSS FEINGOLD
“I think we’re in great danger of [a terror attack staged by the U.S. government].”
—RON PAUL
“I live in North Carolina. I’ll probably never eat a tangerine again.”
—ELIZABETH EDWARDS
“It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that.
After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and
it put the leader (Hitler) of that country in a position where he could
basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”
—KEITH ELLISON
“I’ve always said that you need to keep [impeachment] on the table
and you need to look at these things because now people are dying
because of this administration. And, you know, that’s the truth….
This is as close as we’ve ever come to a dictatorship.
—BARBARA BOXER
“I sort of slapped him around.”
—KATIE COURIC
“Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington,
who are nothing more than corporate toadies. This is treason. And we
need to start treating them as traitors.”
—ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
“This guy (Bush) is brain dead.”
—JOE BIDEN
“I think the Fairness Doctrine ought to be there and I also think
equal time doctrine ought to come back. I mean these are the people who
wiped out one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media
is when the conservatives got rid of the equal time requirements. And
the result is that the, you know, they’ve been able to squeeze down and
squeeze out opinion of opposing views.”
—JOHN KERRY
“It was one of my life’s proudest achievements.
“More than the films, more than the awards — finding out that
I was on Nixon’s Enemies List meant that I was doing something
right…
“I was proud to stand with Democrats against an imperial president
back then. And I am proud now to stand with a new generation of
Democrats against a president who poses what I believe to be the
biggest internal threat to American democracy in my lifetime.”
—PAUL NEWMAN
“We must continue developing the resistance war, that’s the anti-
imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war
everyday. It’s not just armed warfare. I’m also referring to
psychological warfare, media warfare, political warfare, economic
warfare.”
—HUGO CHAVEZ
“[Milwaukee’s Juneteenth Day violence] is something that is not a plus for the city at all.”
—TOM BARRETT
“It’s an economic issue for us to create good-paying green-collar
jobs, green jobs… It is something that we must do, and America is
lagging behind because the president doesn’t accept the science.”
—NANCY PELOSI
“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”
—TRENT LOTT
“I guess the president, uh, he’s gotten rid of Pace because he could
not get him confirmed here in the Senate… Pace is also a yes-man for
the president and I told him to his face, I laid it out to him last
time he came to see me, I told him what an incompetent man I thought he
was.”
—HARRY REID
“Our presence in Iraq, our occupation of Iraq gives these people
(terrorists) the inspiration. We didn’t have this kind of a problem
before, they came from Afghanistan, but now we even have them in the
United States. So I’m absolutely convinced that this is the kind of
thing that inspires these people.”
—JOHN MURTHA
“I don’t defend the mullahs. I defend the innocent civilians
living in Iraq who had nothing to do with attacking the United States,
and who are dying in unprecedented numbers because of the occupation by
the U.S. forces of their nation. So, I’m against us being a bully, the
U.S.”
“No one in the upper echelon ever pays, none of those rich white
guys who run the government. And I support the troops and the Lynndie
England and the people who are on the ground doing it because I was
never one of those rich white guys.”
—ROSIE O’DONNELL
(Describing Tony Blair’s attitude to President George W. Bush)
“Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. I think that the
almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised
policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the
world.”
—JIMMY CARTER
“As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe
in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a
temporary situation.”
—AL SHARPTON
“This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot.”
—ZACK DE LA ROCHA
“I think America is ready for a multilingual president.”
“I come here this morning as a sister in worship…. I don’t feel no ways tired.”
—HILLARY CLINTON
“I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper
can be used in any one sitting… [W]e can make it work with only
one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky
occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.”
—SHERYL CROW
“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what
the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I
don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a
president really believes that, then there are — what I was
pointing out, there are ways (impeachment) to deal with that.”
—CHUCK HAGEL
“Let’s fight this president and put him in f–ing jail.”
—SEAN PENN
“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the
doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say,
‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’
If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame
retardant.”
—AL GORE
“Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States.”
—DONALD TRUMP
“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z.”
—KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED
“Don’t fear the terrorists. They’re mothers and fathers.”
—ROSIE O’DONNELL
“Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a
retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being
retarded?”
—CHRIS ROCK
“[The Republicans] have something very gay, excuse me, going on with
Ronald Reagan. I mean, they love Ronald Reagan in a way that’s just
gay. I’m sorry. But, I think they want to put him on a stamp so that
they can lick his backside. Well, seriously, I mean – am I right?”
—BILL MAHER
“I think it’s, it’s not a coincidence that [Dick Cheney] has a blood
clot this week, which is Spanish for, you know, I’m going to go down
next so I think I’ll retire… Who wouldn’t have a blood clot after the
lying that he did? Talk about a backup of blood!”
—JOY BEHAR
“Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in
international relations — military force. Primarily the United States
has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.”
—VLADIMIR PUTIN
“I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is
impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now
on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the
other denies the present and future.”
—ELLEN GOODMAN
“I haven’t spoken at an anti-war rally in 34 years because of lies
about me that were used to hurt the anti-war movement. But silence is
no longer an option. Thank you so much for the courage to stand up to
this mean-spirited and vengeful administration.”
—JANE FONDA
“My party’s the Democratic Party. But the sort of kook right, not
the responsible Republicans, but the fringe, the Rush Limbaugh crowd,
likes to call my party the Democrat Party. They think it’s some sort of
insult or something. And frankly, I guess it is insulting.”
—PAUL BEGALA
“I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me… Numb nuts (President Bush).”
—DANNY DeVITO
“We will not rest from our Jihad until we are under the olive trees
of Rumieh and we have blown up the filthiest house – which is called
the White House.”
—ABU HAMZA AL-MUHAJER
“Shut the f— up! Shut up if you can’t take a joke [about President Bush]!”
—BARBRA STREISAND
“[President Bush] said it very clearly, he said ‘Either you’re with
us, or you’re against us.’ And, I had a problem with that because I
really hadn’t made my mind up yet.”
—TED TURNER
“well strip down and get relaxed”
—MARK FOLEY
“I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks.”
—KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer
“What we have in this country is a dictator who’s ineffective.”
—ELEANOR CLIFT
“Zarqawi felt my son’s breath on his hand as he held the knife
against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes when he did it.
George Bush sits there glassy-eyed in his office with pieces of paper
and condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist.”
—MICHAEL BERG
“You better believe it, Mr. President. The Senate can send you home.
You better believe that. If the House impeaches you, the Senate will
try you. The Senate, don’t forget it, serves as a court of impeachment.”
—ROBERT BYRD
“America must be burned! America is no good at all. ”
—LOUIS FARRAKHAN
“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest
terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you:
Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people …
support your (Hugo Chavez) revolution.”
—HARRY BELAFONTE
“I said what I said. I am not guilty.”
—SADDAM HUSSEIN
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.”
—HELEN THOMAS
“Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away.”
—MICHAEL SCHIAVO
“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were
driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the
traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of
political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths —
half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. ”
—BILL MOYERS
“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.”
—HOWARD DEAN
“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not
‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION,
the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.”
—MICHAEL MOORE
“Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management: US management.”
—TED KENNEDY
“I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good president.”
—JOHN McCAIN
“When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.”
—MAUREEN DOWD
“Creepy liar. … [L]iar who makes things up.”
—Lawrence O’Donnell
“And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to
be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night,terrorizing kids
and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of
the–of–the historical customs, religious customs.”
—JOHN KERRY
“He [George Bush] betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He
took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our
troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took
place!”
—AL GORE
“I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”
—HILLARY CLINTON
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
—BILL CLINTON
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTATIONS
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still
remains…My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the
sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God.
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be
happy.”
—ANNE FRANK
“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know
anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women,
when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against
humanity and society.”
—POPE JOHN PAUL II
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the
ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
—MOTHER TERESA
“To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence
than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a
candy shop.”
—BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.
“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
—GOLDA MEIR
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
—MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
“The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours.
It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age,
you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in
freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.”
—RONALD REAGAN
“America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in
history that had the chance, and refused — preferring greatness to
power and justice to glory.”
—GEORGE W. BUSH
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any
friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success
of liberty.”
—JOHN F. KENNEDY
“Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid.”
—MARK LEVIN
“Winning is not a sometime thing: it’s an all time thing. You don’t
win once in a while; you don’t do the right thing once in a while; you
do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is
losing.
—VINCE LOMBARDI
“We will be Warriors forever.”
—BO ELLIS
“I know how much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know.”
—WARREN ZEVON
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