This Week In Quotes: Double Edition (March 14 – March 27)

by John Hawkins | March 28, 2014 2:23 am

I think it’s up to white people to be more open-minded and blacks are more open-minded than they are. — Marion Barry[1]

In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think loses elections. They think we need to spend time on really popular ideas, like cutting your mom’s Social Security check. — Gary Bauer[2]

I don’t think [the sanctions] will have much impact. I think the Obama administration and the Europeans are demonstrating weakness, these sanctions are pinpricks, and y’know we sent Secretary of State John Kerry to London to negotiate with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, that’s like sending a cupcake to negotiate with a steak knife. — John Bolton[3]

In the average state, an average career government employee receives combined pension and Social Security income higher than 72 percent of that state’s full-time working employees, Biggs calculates. The figure is lower in some states, including Massachusetts (45 percent); in others, such as Pennsylvania (87 percent) or Oregon (90 percent), it’s much higher. Bear in mind that these sums don’t include health care benefits, which typically boost retirees’ income by thousands of dollars. And how much is a full-career public employee pension worth in dollars and cents? In the average state, those lifetime retirement benefits – again, not including health coverage – have a present value worth $768,940. In many states, they’re worth even more – $848,735 in Massachusetts, for example, and more than $1.3 million in Nevada. — Jeff Jacoby[4]

I would like to invite one of the NRA board members, and I’ll be armed, let’s just get this over with, OK? Come on down to Georgia and I’ll be packing heat and you be packing heat or whether you want to or not, I don’t give a damn, it’s up to you. And you come, meet me someplace, and all of a sudden, see, we have stand your ground here, and all of a sudden I’m going to feel real goddamned threatened by you! And I will shoot you! If I feel threatened. The law says I can! Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha! —Mike Malloy[5]

I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. — Amanda Marcotte[6]

The “God is love” message alone is also religiously inaccurate. In Judaism and Christianity, God is many things. He is, for example, a “God of war” (ever heard of the “Lord of hosts”?) And most important, “God is just,” which means that God rewards and punishes. Indeed, if God doesn’t reward and punish, He is not a loving God. — Dennis Prager[7]

They are mean, racist people. Now why do I say that? Because in those red states, they’re the same slave-holding states. They had the Confederate flag. They became Dixiecrats; they had the Confederate flag. They’re now the Tea Party; they still got the Confederate [flag]. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. — Charlie Rangel[8]

There are a lot of studies that show, literally, you’re more likely to be beamed up into a UFO or struck by lightning than find in-person voter fraud. — Joy Reid[9]

Prosecutors should have “skin in the game” – if someone’s charged with 100 crimes but convicted of only one, the state should have to pay 99% of his legal fees. This would discourage overcharging. (So would judicial oversight, but we’ve seen little enough of that.) Second, plea-bargain offers should be disclosed at trial, so that judges and juries can understand just how serious the state really thinks the offense is. Empowering juries and grand juries (a standard joke is that any competent prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich) would also provide more supervision. And finally, I think that prosecutors should be stripped of their absolute immunity to suit – an immunity created by judicial activism, not by statute – and should be subject to civil damages for misconduct such as withholding evidence. — Glenn Reynolds[10]

A trained ape can get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius. — Donald Rumsfeld[11]

It’s a safe bet that the next smug liberal dork you hear repeating the cheesy cliché about how “Reality has a liberal bias” doesn’t live in Ukraine. — Kurt Schlichter[12]

The key to understanding liberals is realizing that they are immune to argument. The concept underlying the idea of a debate is that facts and reasoning can lead one to change his previous conclusions. But liberals begin with their conclusions; facts and reasoning that may undermine the preexisting conclusion must be at least ignored, if not actively attacked. — Kurt Schlichter[13]

Years ago, the Europeans made a conscious decision to inhabit an imaginary world where everyone is just as emasculated and effete as they, where everyone wants to anesthetize themselves from the pain of responsibility with social spending and moral posturing. But most of the world didn’t get the memo that weak is the new strong. — Kurt Schlichter[13]

It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you. — Matt Walsh[14]

Want the government out of your sex life? Stop asking them to subsidize it. Stop asking them to force employers to subsidize it. Stop making your sex habits into a public issue. The tyranny of the Pigs on the Animal Farm might work in your favor for now, but eventually you’ll wish to claim for yourself those rights which you asked them to steal from others. And by then, it will be too late. God help you. — Matt Walsh[14]

The Tea Party guys? The guys with the n*gger jokes in 2014? — Pharrell Williams[15]

It is a perversion of the English language that our so-called liberals are the least liberal faction in our polity. American liberalism is the creed that you are entitled to think as you like and entitled to do as you are commanded. — Kevin Williamson[16]

Endnotes:
  1. Marion Barry: http://weaselzippers.us/180385-d-c-democrat-marion-barry-whites-less-tolerant-than-blacks/
  2. Gary Bauer: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/373447/snapshots-pro-life-gala-michael-potemra
  3. John Bolton: http://weaselzippers.us/179628-john-bolton-sending-kerry-to-deal-with-lavrov-is-like-sending-a-cupcake-to-negotiate-with-a-steak-knife/
  4. Jeff Jacoby: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/22/public-pensions-are-eating-taxpayers-alive/TcWFHYnvzCZMe4nUEZdD3J/story.html
  5. Mike Malloy: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2014/03/27/radio-lib-mike-malloy-nra-board-member-i-will-shoot-you
  6. Amanda Marcotte: http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/feminist-babies-are-time-sucking-monsters/
  7. Dennis Prager: http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2014/03/25/pope-francis-threatens-hell--hooray-n1813995
  8. Charlie Rangel: http://politicker.com/2014/03/rangel-questions-why-obama-thought-he-could-work-with-mean-racist-tea-party/
  9. Joy Reid: http://weaselzippers.us/180512-msnbcs-joy-reid-there-are-a-lot-of-studies-that-show-literally-youre-more-likely-to-be-beamed-up-into-a-ufo-than-witness-voter-fraud/
  10. Glenn Reynolds: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/19/law-enforcement-clue-jury-criminal-column/6490641/
  11. Donald Rumsfeld: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/donald-rumsfeld-a-trained-ape-could-manage-war-better-than-obama-video/
  12. Kurt Schlichter: http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2014/03/24/ukraine-illustrates-hard-truths-liberals-wont-face-n1812563
  13. Kurt Schlichter: http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2014/03/24/ukraine-illustrates-hard-truths-liberals-wont-face-n1812563
  14. Matt Walsh: http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/03/25/a-brilliant-and-innovative-solution-for-women-who-want-birth-control/
  15. Pharrell Williams: http://weaselzippers.us/180631-lib-singer-pharrell-williams-enthusiastically-backs-hillary-clinton-then-smears-tea-party-as-guys-with-ngger-jokes/
  16. Kevin Williamson: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/374115/print

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