Thanks, Jim. I snipped the ones I don't agree with, and left the ones that
are right-on.





"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







"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

My caveat: once the heart starts beating.





"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


"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

"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

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


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



"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




"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


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



"[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

"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