Political Quotes

[OrangeEmpire]

Lets start with Dan Quayle

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
Dan Quayle

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
Dan Quayle

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Dan Quayle
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan Quayle
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Quayle
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Dan Quayle
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dan Quayle
For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Dan Quayle
Public speaking is very easy.

Dan Quayle
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

 

[orange+white=heaven]

"In case you wonder in the future..."Crime, boy, I don't know"... was when I decided to kick your ass."

-Josiah Bartlet
The West Wing

 

[smokedog#3]

mission accomplished- W

 

[Lexvol]

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

T Roosevelt

 

[therealUT]

Bill Clinton "Bushisms"

John Kennedy had actually not been back to the White House since his father was killed, until I had became president - and first he was on an advisory committee that made a report to me, and he came back to the Oval Office where he saw the desk that he took the famous picture in - you know, coming through the gate, for the first time since he was a little boy.

It depends on how you define "alone" ... there were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were.

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.-1995

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.-1969

And so, it is important that we are able to forgive those we believe have wronged us even as we ask for forgiveness from people we have wronged. And I heard that first -- first in the civil rights movement. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense.-1974

No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people

and finally,

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

 

[therealUT]

Other great Clinton-isms:

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall inherit the Earth.

"Thanks for the poncho."
President Clinton said this when he was presented with the Romanian tri-color flag.

Good thing he was sworn to protect and defend the Constitution...

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.'

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.

More of Clinton and the Constitution...

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from every doing so."
Gore Vidal.
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers.

"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git."
Alexai Sayle.

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
Adlai Stevenson.

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous.

"The Internet is a gateway to get on the net."
Bob Dole.

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Dan Quayle (...more Dan Quayle Quotes).

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president."
Hillary Clinton.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Howard Dean

10) "I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called." --urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's White House records

9) "You know, the Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a pretty monolithic party. Pretty much, they all behave the same, and they all look the same. ... It's pretty much a white Christian party.'' --speaking about the lack of outreach to minority communities by political parties

8) "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."

7) "I'm a metrosexual." –employing the buzz phrase for straight men who are in touch with their feminine sides, then later admitting he didn't know what the term means

6) "We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing."

5) "The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong."

4) "This president is not interested in being a good president.

3) "Now that we're on dog pee, we can have an interesting conversation about that. I do not recommend drinking urine…but if you drink water straight from the river, you have a greater chance of getting an infection than you do if you drink urine." —teaching an eight-grade science class in La Crosse, Wisconsin

2) "You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives."

1) "Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!" --Iowa concession speech

 

[OrangeEmpire]

John Kerry quotes during 04 campaign trail

"You get the feeling that if George Bush had been President during other periods in American history, he would have sided with the candle lobby against electricity, the buggy-makers against cars, and typewriter companies against computers."

"I guess the president and you and I are three examples of lucky people who married up. And some would say maybe me more so than others." --during the third presidential debate

"The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody." –-discussing the debate negotiations with Regis Philbin

"Did the training wheels fall off?" –-after being told by reporters that President Bush took a tumble during a bike ride

"Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances."

"Invading Iraq in response to 9/11 would be like Franklin Roosevelt invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor."

"Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country."

"Cheney can claim Bush as a dependent." –-item #3 on Kerry's "Top 10" list of Bush tax proposals, as read on the "Late Show With David Letterman"

"I wanted to have John Edwards stand. Dick Cheney wanted to sit. We compromised and now George Bush is gonna sit on Dick Cheney's lap." –- discussing negotiations over the vice presidential debate

"You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing."

"We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got real plans. We've got a better sense of what's happening to America, and we've got better hair." --campaigning with his running mate, Sen. John Edwards

"I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis." -- after three Davenport, Iowa banks were robbed while Kerry and Bush were campaigning in the city at the same time

"When your horse is headed down toward the waterfalls or your horse is drowning, it's a good time to change horses in midstream. May I also suggest we need a taller horse? You can get through deeper waters that way."

"In the event of emergency, my hair can be used as a flotation device," –on board the inaugural flight of his refurbished Boeing 757

"If you think Dick Cheney is cursing now, wait until November 2nd when we finish doing what we're going to do." –-on Cheney telling Sen. Patrick Leahy to "go f*** yourself"

"I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two."

"I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term."

"Do you have to go through a program for that, or do you just some day listen and embrace reason?" –-after an Ohio woman told him she was a "recovering Republican"

"I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls."

"We crossed paths. Are there pictures of us dancing on a bar together? No. I don't have that." –-on his run-ins with George W. Bush at Yale

"George Bush is a walking contradiction, a walking barrel of broken promises. As the phrase goes, Houston, we've got a problem."

"I've been having problems with the right wing lately." --after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder

"I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad."

"My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush"

"George Bush thought he could play dress-up on an aircraft carrier and you wouldn't notice. Ask yourself, whose mission is accomplished?"

"We're coming, you’re going, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out."

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Al Sharpton Quotes

"George Bush giving tax cuts is like Jim Jones giving Kool-Aid. It tastes good but it'll kill you."

"I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering."

"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."

"I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school."

"I can become President because I never had a stunt man do my dirty work." -after Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California

"That's like saying, 'I'm honest but I ain't never been around no money.'" -after Howard Dean said he's not a racist but had never lived in a racially diverse community

"If I were president, I would go in and say, ‘We were wrong.’ Tony Blair and George Bush had a meeting, acted as though it was a world summit. Two guys in a phone booth acted like the whole world had met."

"Mr. Bush will not be, in a Sharpton administration, the head of missing persons. He can't find bin Laden. We don't know if Hussein is living or dead, and we can't find the weapons of mass destruction."

"I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending."

"I want to welcome him to our list of candidates. And don't be defensive about just joining the party. It's better to be a new Democrat that's a real Democrat than a lot of old Democrats up here that have been acting like Republicans all along." -welcoming Gen. Wesley Clark to the Democratic presidential race

"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres... We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us." -speaking at the Democratic Convention

 

[UTGRADnNC]

Pat Robertson quotes:

"God's pattern is for men to be the leaders, both in the church and in the family... "Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them."

"If the widespread practice of homosexuality will bring about the destruction of your nation, if it will bring about terrorist bombs, if it'll bring about earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, it isn't necessarily something we ought to open our arms to."

"I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it."

"This is God's power and he sent this thing to warn us ... we needed a shock."
-- Pat Robertson, remarking on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell

"And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001

 

[OrangeEmpire]

You only found some for Pat Robertson?

You can do better than that........... :air_kiss:

 

[orange+white=heaven]

"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
-Alexander Haig

Still makes me giggle....

 

[orange+white=heaven]

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Facts are stubborn things.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

-All from the eminently quotable Ronald Reagan

 

[cd12]

"Some people go through life wondering if they ever made a difference, Marines don't have that problem". Reagan

 

[volinbham]

“The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don’t have any hope for a better life....I think they [the 19 hijackers] were brave at the very least.”
– AOL Time Warner Vice Chairman and CNN founder Ted Turner in February 11 remarks at Brown University, as reported by Gerald Carbone in the February 12 Providence Journal. The next day, Turner issued a statement: “The attacks of Sept. 11 were despicable acts. I in no way meant to convey otherwise.”

 

[volinbham]

“I don’t think it’s a liberal agenda. It happens that journalism will always be spending more time on issues that seem to be liberal to some people: the problem of the downtrodden, the problem of civil rights and human rights, the problem of those people who don’t have a place at the table with the powerful.”
– NBC anchor Tom Brokaw on MSNBC’s Donahue when asked about the claim of liberal media bias, July 25.

 

[volinbham]

“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.”
– Barbara Walters narrating her interview with Fidel Castro on ABC’s 20/20, October 11. [73 points]

 

[volinbham]

Brian Williams: “Is it fair to call him [Jimmy Carter] the best former President in, at minimum, modern American history, and perhaps, well, I guess, the last 200 years?”
Historian Marshall Frady: “Which embraces all presidencies, I think. Absolutely.”
– Exchange on CNBC’s The News with Brian Williams, October 11. [45]

 

[volinbham]

“Recovery and debris removal work continues at the site of the World Trade Center known as ‘ground zero’ in New York, March 25, 2002. Human rights around the world have been a casualty of the U.S. ‘war on terror’ since September 11.”
– Reuters News Service caption for a photo of the destroyed World Trade Center site which was distributed with a September 3 story by Richard Waddington headlined, “Rights the first victim of ‘war on terror.’” [53]

 

[volinbham]

“Increasingly, there are important questions that need to be asked....For example, the Attorney General of the United States before, just before September 11th, started inexplicably taking private aircraft to places where normally the Attorney General wouldn’t take private aircraft, you know, government planes. Well, that would indicate that somebody somewhere was getting pretty worried, but if you’re going to share that with the Attorney General, you know, why wasn’t it shared with the public at large?”
– CBS’s Dan Rather on MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning radio show, May 22. According to NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski: “It was determined that since John Ashcroft is such a polarizing figure, that the threat assessment against him would be high,” so shortly after taking office “he started taking government planes all the time....It had nothing at all to do with any terrorist threat.” [35]

 

[volinbham]

Mark McEwen: “Up and down the East coast, it’s coming our way, but we will probably see just rain in the big cities.”
Bryant Gumbel: “We never get any snow.”
McEwen: “Do you think it’s global warming?”
Gumbel: “Yes, yes.”
McEwen: “Do you, Jane?”
Jane Clayson: “Yeah.”
McEwen: “We’re unanimous...it’s global warming.”
– Exchange on CBS’s Early Show, February 6 [46]

 

[volinbham]

“Seven years ago, when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that’s a true measure of the Iraqi people’s feelings.”
– ABC’s David Wright, World News Tonight, Oct. 15. [50]

 

[volinbham]

“I have a feeling that it [bin Laden’s new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.”
— Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite on CNN’s Larry King Live, October 29.

 

[volinbham]

"I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists."
Jane Fonda