This Week In Quotes: Dec 2 – Dec 8

by John Hawkins | December 9, 2011 5:29 am

And while I am disappointed, there are more than a few silver linings to doing this work outside the context of a presidential campaign. The process by which we choose our nation’s leader is ridiculous. There is little focus on policy substance and even less on candidates’ governing skills. If you’re not warding off some wild accusation, you’re explaining away a ‘gaffe,’ which is usually the sort of slip of the tongue that anyone can make, but because some reporter heard it, it turns into a news-cycle narrative with a shelf life of six or seven days. — Herman Cain[1]

The civilian labor force dropped by 315,000, which caused the participation rate to drop to 64.0%, down from 64.2% in October. James Pethokoukis ran the numbers, and declared that if the participation rate were the same as last month, the unemployment rate would be 8.9%. Worse, if it were the same as when President Obama took office, it would be 11%. — Steve Eggleston[2]

I want to get equality by bringing people up. [Obama] wants to get equality by bringing people down. I want to be the guy who says, “I want to help every American have a better future.” [Obama] wants to make sure that he levels Americans down so we all have an equally mediocre future. — Newt Gingrich[3]

Where to begin? A country spending twice as much per capita on education as it did in 1970 with zero effect on test scores is not underinvesting in education. It’s mis-investing. — Charles Krauthammer[4]

The left fears conservatism because they know it wins. The Republican establishment fears conservatism because they think it loses. So we end up pulling our hair out here trying to come up with some people on our team, in our movement to join us — and we look and we find that neither establishment, neither party establishment is with us. — Rush Limbaugh[5]

Well, “The Washington post” three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all — than all eight Republicans combined. I don’t want to say that, because if that’s the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we’ve got a much bigger problem. — Michael Moore[6]

Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money. …This is just the most recent example of an administration at war with people of faith in this country. Investing tax dollars promoting a lifestyle many [Americans] of faith find so deeply objectionable is wrong. President Obama has again mistaken America’s tolerance for different lifestyles with an endorsement of those lifestyles. I will not make that mistake. — Rick Perry[7]

The numbers — to those who don’t know them — are astonishing. In 1870, all government spending was 7.3 percent of national income in the United States, 9.4 percent in Britain, 10 percent in Germany and 12.6 percent in France. By 2007, the figures were 36.6 percent for the United States, 44.6 percent for Britain, 43.9 percent for Germany and 52.6 percent for France. Military costs once dominated budgets; now, social spending does. — Robert Samuelson[8]

We are responsible for 43 percent of the planet’s military spending. But if you spend on that scale without any strategic clarity or hardheaded calculation of your national interest it is ultimately as decadent and useless as throwing money at Solyndra or Obamacare or any of the other domestic follies. A post-prosperity America will mean perforce a shrunken presence on the global stage. And we will not like the world we leave behind. — Mark Steyn[9]

Endnotes:
  1. Herman Cain: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/04/quotes-of-the-day-877/
  2. Steve Eggleston: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/02/november-unemployment-rate-down-to-8-6-120k-jobs-added/
  3. Newt Gingrich: http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/larrykudlow/2011/12/09/newt_the_supplyside_sizzler
  4. Charles Krauthammer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-campaign-for-class-resentment/2011/12/08/gIQApYDagO_story.html
  5. Rush Limbaugh: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/05/long_knives_out_for_newt_on_both_sides_of_washington_establishment
  6. Michael Moore: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/07/moore_wall_street_already_has_their_man_and_his_name_is_barack_obama.html
  7. Rick Perry: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/rick-perry-says-human-rights-for-gays-not-in-americas-interests/
  8. Robert Samuelson: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/05/the_welfare_states_reckoning_112273.html
  9. Mark Steyn: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/284773/egypt-s-descent-mark-steyn?pg=2

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