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Politics
Anarchism
- Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ~ Edward Abbey
- Every government does as much harm as it can, and as much good as it must. ~ Nicholas Walter
- Anarchy is the true nature of all things. Monarchy, democracy, communism, all useless forms to control the human mind. But a mind cannot be control. It cannot be restrained. It has no boundaries. It has its will. Anarchy is the true nature of all things... ~ Alex Battig
- If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange the apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon
- We cannot acknowledge allegience to any human government... Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind..." ~ William Lloyd Garrison
- From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for... ~ Joseph Labadie
- If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ~ Auberon Herbert
- John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? ~ Emma Goldman
- If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. ~ Will Durant
- Anarchy stands for the liberation of the human mind, from the domination of religion; the liberation of the human body from the domination of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government. ~ Emma Goldman
- Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they? Ammon Hennacy
Art
- If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. ~ Emma Goldman
- I must create my own System, or be enslaved by another Man's. I will not Reason and Compare—my business is to Create! ~ William Blake
Bipartisanship, Patriotism & Unity
- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ President Abraham Lincoln
Business & Economy
- The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy. ~ Howard Pyle (aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, commenting on the unemployment situation in Detroit)
- The alliance between business and goverment is by definition... Fascism. ~ (origin needed)
- The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
- The Enron scandal should launch a national movement to leash the corrupt power of money in politics so that legislators and regulators can serve the public interest. ~ The American Prospect, 2002
- Idealism is fine; but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive. ~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Censorship
- Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires. It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a court of law or otherwise discussed in public. The House of Lords discussing the removal of trade union rights at GCHQ, 1984.
Civil Rights & Race Relations
- When was the last time you talked about race with someone of a different race? If the answer is never, you're part of the problem. ~ Bill Bradley
Congress
- I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. ~ Mark Twain
- Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain
- If the opposite of pro is con, then isn't congress the opposite of progress? ~ (Jon Stewart)
- Congress is like diapers; it should be changed regularly as it gets full of the same thing. ~ seen on a bumper sticker
Democracy
- Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water. ~ Michael Z. Williamson
- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ~ Gore Vidal
- Because democracy is not a spectator sport. ~ 2004 US president election Democrats
- Representitive Democracy is, unfortunately, a spectator sport. ~ Tom Permyakoff , a play on the Democrats' 2004 Election slogan
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. ~ H.L. Mencken
- The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy. ~ Alex Carey , Australian social scientist.
- The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. ~ Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News, 28 July 1941
- Committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year. ~ Warren O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold, August 2003
- A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. ~ Fisher Ames (NOTE: A 'republic' is also known as a 'representative democracy ')
- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote. ~ frequently attributed to Benjamin Franklin, it does not appear in his writings.
- Corruption is the nightmare that keeps democracy a dream. . ~ anonymous
- "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." . ~ Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons (November 11, 1947)
Dictatorships, Totalitarianism, Tyranny
- Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
- Wherever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ~ President Harry S Truman
- The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything. ~ Joseph Stalin
- Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. ~ Charlton Heston
Education
- Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
Equality, Freedom, Liberty & Rights
- Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. ~ Barry Goldwater
- A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean, is worthless. ~ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
- When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.' ~ Mikhail Bakunin in Statism and Anarchy
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. ~ Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ~ Lord Acton
- The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ~ Lord Acton
- I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy unless it has in some way obstructed inter-state commerce. ~ J. Edgar Hoover
- Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ~ Edmund Burke
- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote. ~ Benjamin Franklin
International Affairs, United Nations & World Government
- I do not believe that the United States should be bound by the same rules as the smallest African nation. Life isn't like that. ~ Richard Perle, USA Pentagon advisor
- It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ Baha'U'Llah
- The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ~ Henry Kissinger, on the election of Chilean President Salvador Allende
- We [the U.S.] have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of the world’s population.… Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. ~ George Kennan , former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, 1948. (Thomas H. Etzold and John Lewis Gaddis, Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950 226-227 (1978))
Freedom of Speech
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~ James Baldwin
- If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. ~ Noam Chomsky
Liberalism
- A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ~ Robert Frost
- A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ~ G. Gordon Liddy
- It is a Hamlet-like torture to be truly liberal. ~ Leonard Bernstein
Men & Women
- Man is by nature a political animal. ~ Aristotle
- It will be years—not in my time—before a woman will become Prime Minister. ~ Margaret Thatcher, 1974
- When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ~ Elaine Boosler
MisStatements & Tautologies
- I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ~ George H.W. Bush
- [I want to] make sure everybody who has a job wants a job. ~ George H.W. Bush (during his first campaign for the presidency)
- I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family. ~ George W. Bush
- The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. ~ George W. Bush
- When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. ~ Calvin Coolidge (ex-president, discussing the United States economic situation in 1931)
- If Lincoln was alive today, he'd roll over in his grave. ~ Gerald Ford
- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. ~ Gerald Ford
- I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. ~ Gerald Ford
- If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ~ Dan Quayle
- There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. ~ Ronald Reagan
- Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. ~ Senator William Scott , during a briefing in which officials began telling him about missile silos
- The proof is the proof, and if we have the proof, then that is the proof. ~ Jean Chrétien
Politicians & Lawyers
- It takes a great man to be a good listener. ~ Calvin Coolidge
- You don't have to explain something you never said. ~ Calvin Coolidge
- The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy ~ Edwin W. Edwards
- People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal. ~ Huey P. Long
- The honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought. ~ U.S. Senator Simon Cameron , 1862
- A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ~ H.L. Mencken
- Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people. ~ Mark Turpin
- They [the people] may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Carl W. Buechner
- In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away— For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. ~ Lewis Carroll
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
Power & Money
- In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard— and by whom. ~ Ralph Reed, head of Christian Coalition, in memo to Enron executives, 2000
- Talking to politicians is fine, but with a little money they hear you better. ~ Justin Dart, chairman, Port Industries, 1982
- Politics has gotten so expensive that it takes a lot of money to even get beat with. ~ Will Rogers, 1931
- There are two things you need for success in politics. Money... and I can't think of the other. ~ Senator Mark Hannah (R-OH), 1903
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ~ Lord Acton, 1887
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
- Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat. ~ (origin needed)
- Property, once exposed, requires the terror of capital punishment to protect it. ~
Public Safety, Domestic Security & Gun Control
- The streets are safe in Philadelphia—it's only the people who make them unsafe. ~ Frank Rizzo , ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
- Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak. ~ George Orwell
- Guns don't kill people, people kill people. With guns. ~ Anon
- Guns don't kill people, people, kill people. Monkey's do too, if they've got a gun! ~ Eddie Izzard, Comedian
- They say "oh guns don't kill people, people kill people"...but I think the gun helps. ~ Eddie Izzard, Comedian
Public Service
- If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ~ Anonymous
Reform
- History is a long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. ~ Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 1963
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ President John F. Kennedy
- Reform is not for the shortwinded. ~ Arthur Vanderbilt, New Jersey Supreme Court Justice, 1949
- The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable cry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ~ Thomas Paine, 1776
- Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. ~ Joseph Campbell
- It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius
- You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. ~ Peter F. Hamilton (through character Endron) in The Neutronium Alchemist
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie
- ..reason accepts no authority above itself and is necessarily subversive.. ~ Allan Bloom
Reform, Campaign Finance
- Today's political campaigns function as collection agencies for broadcasters. You simply transfer money from contributors to television stations. ~ Senator Bill Bradley , 2000
- We've got a real irony here... We have politicians selling access to something we all own— our government. And then we have broadcasters selling access to something we all own— our airwaves. It's a terrible system. ~ Newton Minow, former Federal Communications Commission chairman, 2000
- You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see McCain-Feingold Bill pass the Senate. ~ Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 1999
- Unless we fundamentally change this system, ultimately campaign finance will consume our democracy. ~ Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), 1996
- [Buckley v. Valeo is] one of the most weakly reasoned, poorly written, initially contradictory court opinions I've ever read. ~ Senator (and former federal district court judge) George J. Mitchell (D-ME), 1990
- We don't buy votes. What we do is we buy a candidate's stance on an issue. ~ Allen Pross, executive director, California Medical Association's PAC, 1989
- Political action committees and moneyed interests are setting the nation's political agenda... Are we saying that only the rich have brains in this country? Or only people who have influential friends who have money can be in the Senate? ~ Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 1988
- The day may come when we'll reject the money of the rich as tainted, but it hadn't come when I left Tammany Hall at 11:25 today. ~ George Washington Plunkett, 1905
- Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor... not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscure and propitious fortune. ~ James Madison, Federalist 57, 1788
Religion, Separation of Church & State
- No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. ~ George H.W. Bush
- I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work. ~ Adolf Hitler, 1936
- Who says I'm not under the special protection of God? ~ Adolf Hitler
- Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook. ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
- The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity. ~ Senator Alexander Wiley
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~ Mark Twain
- My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter ... As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice ... For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. ~ Adolf Hitler, 1922
- However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism". ~ Barry Goldwater
- "…the neoconservative revival is a profound and, in many ways, a heartening phenomenon... For the neoconservative sees through the emptiness of the present and the poverty of the modern subject. The neoconservative knows that a present without past memory and tradition is self-illusory and finally self-destructive. The neoconservative knows that a subject without community and tradition is very soon little else that the modern possessive individual rendered passive and historyless. The neoconservative sees the folly of the Enlightenment’s wholesale attack on the very concept of tradition. She or he senses the unreality of the assumed universalism in Western liberal social-evolutionary schemas applied to history. The neoconservative notes the wasteful and complacent obstruction of the rich resources of the tradition. She or he knows the need to retrieve these resources anew in our parlous times if we are to maintain any truly Christian identity at all."
- — David Tracy, On Naming the Present, p. 13.
Truth, Honesty, Integrity & Transparency
- [In the West] unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for an official ban. ~ George Orwell
- This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be. ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower, responding to questions about the investigation of J. Robert Oppenheimer's supposed Communist sympathies
Voting & Participation
- If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ~ Francis Bacon
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
- It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. ~ United States Attorney General & Assoc. Justice Robert H. Jackson
- The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Confucius
- Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy. ~ Confucius
War, Military & Peace
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~ Buddha
- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
- The price of greatness is responsibility. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction ~ Albert Einstein
- The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein
- We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. ~ Albert Einstein
- There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~ Havelock Ellis
- Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ~ Albert Einstein
- If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses. ~ Louis Lecoin , French pacifist leader
- The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ~ Robert Lynd (1879-1949), Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist
- War is the mother of invention. But who is the father? ~ Gerhard Kocher
- War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. ~ Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
- Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. ~ Colman McCarthy
- The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies ~ Basil O'Connor
- Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy. ~ George Kennan , 1987
- This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence— economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ~ Dwight Eisenhower
Iraq War
- I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. ~ Ken Adelman , defense policy board member, 13 Febuary 2002
- Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam now has weapons of mass destruction. ~ Dick Cheney, vice president of USA, 26 August 2002
- We do know that [Saddam] is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon. ~ Condolezza Rice , 10 September 2002
- My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~ Dick Cheney, 16 March 2003
- Iraq will not require sustained aid. ~ Mitch Daniels , 28 March 2003
- We know where [the weapons] are. They're in an area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, north and south somewhat. ~ Donald Rumsfeld, 30 March 2003
- "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it." ~ [Madeleine Albright], May 12, 1996 - in regards to whether the price of 1 million dead Iraqi children was worth sanctions
- "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
- "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
- "Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." - Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
- "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
- "The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." - Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 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
- "And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again." -Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, on Good Morning America, March 18, 2003
- "History is made by angry minorities, not by passive majorities." -Fareed Zakaria on insurgent action in Iraq, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, August 15, 2004
Miscellaneous
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. ~ Groucho Marx
- Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. ~ Bob Dylan
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever ~ Albert Einstein
- A zebra does not change its spots. ~ Al Gore
- The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have the power to make nearly any law you want. But your worst enemy will be the one to enforce it. ~ Rick Cook
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