On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:02:55 GMT, "Jim" wrote:


Family Values

"I haven't killed anyone yet, but I believe they [physicians who perform
abortions] deserve to die."


-- Anti-abortion crusader Dan Holman, Chicago Tribune, 10/30/2003

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to
let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good."


-- Randall Terry, the New Republic, 8/1/1994

Cracks in the Melting Pot

"Black ministers should not be involved in politics ... I thought there was
separation of church and state."


-- Talk radio host Bill Cunningham, WLW, Cincinnati, 2/20/95

"Quit looking at the symbols. Get out and get a job. Quit shooting each
other. Quit having illegitimate babies."


-- South Carolina State Rep. John Graham Altman, talking to
African-Americans who supported Gov. David Beasley's proposal to remove the
Confederate flag from the Capitol dome, New York Times, 1/24/97

Sensitivity Training

"Ideally, it would have been nice to have a few phalanxes of policemen with
machine guns and mow them down."


-- Talk-radio host Bob Grant of New York's WABC, commenting on the Gay Pride
Parade, Boston Globe, 4/29/95

"The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than
Hitler's."


-- Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif., the New Republic, 6/1/94

"Every lesbian spear-chucker in this country is hoping I get defeated."


-- Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., Washington Post, 11/23/96 [He was.]

The Gender Gap

"[Abortion rights activists] are homosexuals, wimps, and/or Jewish lawyers."


-- Talk-radio host Stan Solomon, WIBC/Indianapolis, as reported in the
Indianapolis Star, 6/9/94

"I don't care about the circumstances of a child's conception. You want to
execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn
child live."


-- Pat Buchanan, New York Times, 2/24/96

Their Cold Dead Hands

"[Gun-control activist Sarah Brady, wife of former White House press
secretary Jim Brady] ought to be put down. A humane shot at a veterinarian's
would be an easy way to do it. I wish she would just keep wheeling her
husband around, wiping the saliva off his mouth once in a while -- and leave
the rest of us damn well alone."


-- Talk-radio host Bob Mohan, New York Times, 1/1/95

"If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?"


-- Mississippi state Sen. Mike Gunn (R), Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
12/31/96

The Art of Diplomacy

"Jacques Chirac isn't marching in front of some of those Iraqi soldiers; it
would be a very satisfying thing to watch -- put that on pay TV and I'm in,
50 bucks, a hundred, whatever, to see that S.O.B. get just blown to
smithereens."


-- Talk-radio host Lee Rodgers, KSFO/San Francisco, 3/25/03

"I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could put a nuclear
device inside Foggy Bottom [home of the State Department], I think that's
the answer.' I mean, you get through this and you say, 'We've got to blow
that thing up.'"


-- Pat Robertson, talking to Joel Mowbray, author of "Dangerous Diplomacy:
How the State Department Endangers America's Security," "700 Club," as
reported in Chicago Tribune, 10/12/03

Cakewalk

"Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of
the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."


-- Vice President Dick Cheney, "Meet the Press," NBC, 3/16/03

"The cost of the war will be small. We can afford the war, and we'll put it
behind us."


--Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, New York Times, 3/9/03

War Is Hell

"And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a
specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us
with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is
that you don't talk about Fight Club."


-- Dennis Miller, "Hannity & Colmes," Fox News, 6/27/03

"The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the
numbers are really very low."


-- Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, Chicago Tribune, 8/17/03

"And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care
and the precision that went into their bombing campaign. It was not a long
air campaign. It didn't last for weeks. And there was minimal collateral
damage -- unintended damage."


-- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Defenselink.mil, 4/9/03

WMD

"The United States believes that time is running out. We will not shrink
from war if that is the only way to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass
destruction."


-- Secretary of State Colin Powell, "Hardball," MSNBC, 1/31/03

"And I said on my program, 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."


-- Bill O'Reilly, "Good Morning America," ABC, 3/18/03

"We have confidence we're going to find them. They're still there."


-- White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, Chicago Tribune, 6/10/03

"The president of the United States is not a fact-checker."


-- A "senior administration official," discussing George W. Bush's use of
faulty intelligence in the State of the Union address, Los Angeles Times,
7/29/03

Demonizing Democrats

"To be very blunt -- and God watch over Paul's soul -- I am a 99-percent
improvement over Paul Wellstone. Just about on every issue."


-- Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 4/9/03

"We're going to keep on building the party [the Texas GOP] until we're
hunting Democrats with dogs."


-- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, Mother Jones, August 1995

Do as I Say, Not as I Do

"Kurt Cobain died of a drug-induced suicide, I just -- he was a worthless
shred of human debris."


-- Rush Limbaugh, Lumberjackonline.com, 4/8/94

"Not an addiction, not a problem, no therapy, gambling too much, stopped
it."


-- William Bennett, New York Times, 11/17/03

Compassionate Conservatism

Pete: "You probably weren't even born when Kennedy was killed, right?
Wayne: "Ted Kennedy was killed?"
Pete: "Yeah. There'll be a party at my place later." [Laughter].


-- Fill-in hosts for Kim Peterson, WGST/Atlanta, 9/11/03

"I don't understand how poor people think."


-- George W. Bush, New York Times, 8/26/03

Public Enemy: Public Schools

"You know if there was any piece of legislation I would pass it would be to
blow up colleges of education. I know that's not politically correct ..."


-- Reid Lyon, National Institute of Child Health and Development,
Excelgov.org, 11/19/02

Earth Day

"God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"


-- Ann Coulter, "Hannity & Colmes," Fox News, 6/20/01

"[Environmentalists] are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool
of the Democrat Party ... I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are
not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."


-- Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, 8/19/96

"Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it
signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental
movement?"


-- Alan Caruba, Fargo Forum, 4/22/97

Say What?

"If we don't know for sure they're going to do something, or not, we need to
make sure that we prevent anything they may be planning, whether or not we
know or don't know about it."


-- FBI agent quoted by Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer, 11/3/03

"Gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."


-- Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a radio interview with Sean Hannity, New York
Daily News, 8/29/03

"I thought [Jesus Christ] was a free enterpriser ... He was a carpenter's
son and I thought he was doing well. He was able to change water into wine;
now that to me is the classic definition of a guy in the entrepreneurial
spirit."


-- Gov. Tommy Thompson, R-Wis., responding to a reporter who asked him if
Jesus was a socialist, Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, 7/10/96

Let Them Eat Cake

"When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year,
that's middle class."


-- Rep. Fred Heineman, R-N.C., Washington Post, 10/29/96

"We're poor people."


-- Newt Gingrich, describing his wife and himself, Denver Post, 12/29/95


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Cute, but you forgot Bill Cosby. Seems like he agrees with a lot of the above.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!