- "1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS." --
Rep. Ron Paul, an American physician, author, Republican United States Congressman.
- "You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws." --
Rep. Ron Paul.
- "Politics is not my career. My life's passion has been my family, my faith, my country" -- Gov. Rick Perry, the 47th Governor of Texas, on the 1/8/2012
Presidential candidates' debate hosted by NBC's Meet the Press.
- "But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom." -- Gov. Rick Perry.
- "Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs." --
Gov. Rick Perry.
- "We have a president that's a socialist. I don't think our founding fathers wanted to make our country as socialist country." --
Gov. Rick Perry talking about Obama when asked about Obama's patriotic credentials.
- "Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House." --
Gov. Rick Perry.
- ''You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking.'' --
Sen. Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006
- "Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job." --
Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State.
- "If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle." --
Hillary Clinton.
- "In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart." --
Hillary Clinton.
- "Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on." --
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
- "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs." --
Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
- "We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel." --
Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
- "America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska." --
Gov. Sarah Palin, a former Govenor of Alaska and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election.
- "Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us." --
Gov. Sarah Palin.
- "But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." -- Gov. Sarah Palin, talking about handling hostilities between the two Koreas on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010.
- "I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job." --
President George Bush Sr., the 43rd U.S. president, during his first Presidential campaign.
- "Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? ... I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'" --
George Bush Sr., talking to a group of students about drug abuse.
- "You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care." --
George Bush Sr., talking to a group of employees of an insurance company during his primary 1992 Presidential campaign in New Hampshire.
- "For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh... setbacks." --
George Bush Sr..
- "The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at." --
George Bush Sr., on the Alaska pipeline.
- "I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what drives me." --
George Bush Sr.
- "Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man." -- George Bush Sr., talking about Al Gore during his 1992 presidential campaign.
- And great moments in political debates: Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize". Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time".
- "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.
- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change." --
Dan Quayle, the 44th Vice President of the United States.
- "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." --
Dan Quayle during a visit to Hawaii in 1989.
- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is." --
Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund.
- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." --
Dan Quayle.
- "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." -- Dan Quayle.
- "There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred." -- Dan Quayle. speaking of the U.S. House and Senate.
- "If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed." --
Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States.
- "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." -- Ronald Reagan
- "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." --
Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on.
- "Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to succeed." -- Ronald Reagan.
- "Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries" -- Ronald Reagan.
- ''Facts are stupid things.'' --
Ronald Reagan., at the 1988 Republican National Convention, attempting to quote
John Adams, who said, ''Facts are stubborn things'.'
- "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." --
Jimmy Carter, in an interview with Playboy in the 1976 election.
- "This is a great day for France!" --
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral.
- "All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it." --
Lyndon Johnson speaking of
Hubert Humphrey, his vice president.
- ''If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.''' --
Lyndon Johnson.
- ''A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.'' --
President Franklin Roosevelt
- "If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream." -- Sen.
Barry Goldwater.
- "She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night ah, life." --
Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking about his then-wife, Victoria Reggie.
- "People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him." --
Sen. Robert Kennedy, a Democratic senator from New York.
- "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?." --
Sen. Robert Kennedy.
- "A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." --
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
- "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave." --
Benjamin Franklin.
- "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." --
Benjamin Franklin.
- "She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth." --
Benjamin Franklin.
- "I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of Baltimore that is Maryland." --
Gov. William Donald Schaefer,
the 58th Governor of Maryland, first inaugural address .
- "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." --
Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
- "I'm not against the blacks and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that." --
Evan Mecham, then governor of Arizona.
- "Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern has been exposing himself to the people of the United States." --
Frank Licht, then governor of Rhode Island, campaigning for McGovern in 1972.
- "If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head." --
Jim Hightower, a candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner (which regulates the oil industry), referring to George Bush Sr.
- "'Poor George, he can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." -- Former Texas
Gov. Ann Richards on misstatements about George Bush, Sr.
- "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!" --
Jerry Coleman, Padres radio announcer.
- "They X-Rayed my head and found nothing." -- Jerome "Dizzy" Dean.
- I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you." -- Unknown.
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