Worth Repeating
" The Democratic majority was bought and paid for by Wall Street and corporate money. "
My Latest Blogs
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| Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. | -President Ronald Regan | ||||
| It takes an inner courage, an inner knowing, and an inner self belief to win the Masters. | -Masters Champion Nick Faldo | ||||
| I'm not making a joke about it; I'm being completely sincere. But only in Washington, D.C. is $100 million not a lot of money. | -White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs | ||||
| If and when there needs to be a fuller accounting of what took place during this period, I think for Congress to examine ways that it can be done in a bipartisan fashion, outside of the typical hearing process that can sometimes break down and break entirely along party lines, ... that would probably be a more sensible approach to take. | -President Obama on formation of war-on-terror truth commission | ||||
| High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaeda organization that was attacking this country | -Admiral Dennis Blair, Pres. Obama's National Intelligence Direc | ||||
| I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now. It's not that its going to Mexico, it's that you are in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me. | - Vice President Joe Biden on Swine Flu travel precautions | ||||
| I encourage people to stand up for what they believe in and not be afraid. | Miss California Carrie Prejean on her response to the question o | ||||
| It means acting on the fact that the main difference between the private sector and the government sector is that the private sector is largely "the world that works," and the government sector is largely "the world that fails." We can no longer afford that failure. | -From his book "Real Change" by Newt Gingrich | ||||
| In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed. You cannot keep just some nuclear-armed terrorists out of the United States, you must keep every nuclear-armed terrorist out of the United States. Triangulation is a political strategy, not a national security strategy. | -Fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney | ||||
| Claiming that the CIA engaged in a pattern of deception without either backing it up with evidence or retracting her statement and apologizing is an affront to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect our country. They deserve better than this type of stonewalling. | -House Minority Leader John Boerner on Nancy Pelosi | ||||
| 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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty. | -Pres. John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1961 | ||||
| I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life. | Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, 2001 | ||||
| As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills | -RNC Spokeswoman Gail Gitcho on Pres. Obama's "Date Night" | ||||
| A meaningful life is not usually built on grand gestures but, rather, on the habitual accumulation of ordinary ones. | -Rod Dreher, Dallas Morning News Editorial Columnist | ||||
| Allowing this to hang out there is unconscionable, and I just think the silence from Speaker Pelosi is deafening. | -House Minority Leader John Boehner on Speaker Pelosi's claims t | ||||
| We are becoming a weak nation. Republicans need to find their way back to power to free the nation from 'this Obama oppression.' | -Actor John Voight, speaking at a Republican Fundraiser | ||||
| People are being killed and beaten in the streets of Tehran and all over Iran, and we should stand up for them. | -Sen. John McCain | ||||
| He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the Environmental Protection Agency. We're going to expose it. | Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, on a report skeptical of global warming | ||||
| It seems to me that in [Ricci v. DeStefano], Judge Sotomayor’s empathy for one group of firefighters turned out to be prejudice against the others. | -Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) | ||||
| I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. | -Legendary Anchorman Walter Cronkite | ||||
| His remarks were obviously misdirected but made it worse yet by suggesting somehow this case should remind us of a history of racial abuse by law enforcement | Dennis O'Connor, Pres.of Cambridge Police Superior Officers Assn | ||||
| I've talked to too many dealers who say it's the most inept and poorly run program they've ever dealt with. We need to get to the bottom of that before we spend $2 billion more | -Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC) on the "Cash for Clunkers" Program | ||||
| If socialized medicine is best ... why didn't Ted Kennedy go to Canada? | -Health Care Protester in Saratoga Springs, NY | ||||
| The more the American people learn about this plan, the less they like it. It's time for President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and congressional Democrats to scrap this costly plan, start over and work with Republicans on reforms that make health care more affordable and accessible | -House Minority Leader John Boehner | ||||
| It's an outrageous political act that will do great damage, long-term, to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say. | -Former Vice Pres. Dick Cheney on CIA Interrogation Probe | ||||
| This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose. | Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele | ||||
| Bismarck is said to have said: 'There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.' Bismarck never saw Obama at the U.N. Sarkozy did. | Columnist Charles Krauthammer in "Obama's French Lesson" | ||||
| The Democratic majority was bought and paid for by Wall Street and corporate money. | Rich Lowry, Real Clear Politics | ||||
