This Week In Quotes: June 5 – June 11

by John Hawkins | June 12, 2009 9:38 am

They said, ‘Set aside the rule of law, let’s strip secured creditors, bondholders, of their rights. Take them away outside of the bankruptcy process and give them to the political cronies and the auto workers’ unions. It’s almost like looking at Putin’s Russia. You want to reward your political friends at the expense of the certainty of law? — Eric Cantor[1], R-Va

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy. — Newt Gingrich[2]

Only half of (Canadian) ER patients are treated in a timely manner by national and international standards, according to a government study. The physician shortage is so severe that some towns hold lotteries, with the winners gaining access to the local doc. — David Gratzer[3]

If Al Qaeda wants to demolish the America we know and love, they’d better hurry because Obama’s beating them to it. — Rush Limbaugh[4]

We never need to fear that though we’re not a perfect nation, that we must apologize for being proud of ourselves. — Sarah Palin[5]

Medicare is a huge, single-payer, government-run program. It ought to provide the perfect environment for experimentation. If more-efficient government management can slash health-care costs by addressing all these problems, why not start with Medicare? Let’s see what “better management” looks like applied to Medicare before we roll it out to the rest of the country. — Virginia Postrel[6]

The public option puts government firmly in the middle of the relationship between patients and their doctors. If you think insurance companies are bad, imagine what happens when government is the insurance carrier, with little or no competition and no concern you’ll change to another company. — Karl Rove[7]

There’s better phrase-making in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, in a coinage of Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Committee on Foreign Relations. The president emeritus is a sober, judicious paragon of torpidly conventional wisdom. Nevertheless, musing on American decline, he writes, “The country’s economy, infrastructure, public schools, and political system have been allowed to deteriorate. The result has been diminished economic strength, a less vital democracy, and a mediocrity of spirit.” That last is the one to watch: A great power can survive a lot of things, but not “a mediocrity of spirit.” A wealthy nation living on the accumulated cultural capital of a glorious past can dodge its rendezvous with fate, but only for a while. — Mark Steyn[8]

I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. — Evan Thomas, Newsweek[9]

Joe Biden keeps saying he’s not really sure where all that stimulus money is going. In other news, Ashley Biden’s coke dealer just bought Luxembourg. — Jim Treacher[10]

In the months since Congress approved the stimulus, our economy has lost nearly 1.6 million jobs and unemployment has hit 9.4%. Invoke the magic words, however, and — presto! — you have the president claiming he has “saved or created” 150,000 jobs. It all makes for a much nicer spin, and helps you forget this is the same team that only a few months ago promised us that passing the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising over 8%. — The Wall Street Journal[11]

When people call for government to do something, it is as if they’ve been befallen by amnesia and forgotten just who is running government. It’s the very people whom they have labeled as thieves and crooks, liars and manipulators, hustlers and quacks. — Walter Williams[12]

Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. … I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do. — Jeremiah Wright[13]

Endnotes:
  1. Eric Cantor: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98OOJCG0&show_article=1
  2. Newt Gingrich: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/06/newt-gingrich-bowing-to-saudi-king-is.html
  3. David Gratzer: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451570546396929.html
  4. Rush Limbaugh: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/04/video-msnbc-very-angry-at-having-its-limbaugh-obsession-pointed-out/
  5. Sarah Palin: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/governor-palins-seward-house-address.html
  6. Virginia Postrel: http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003001.html
  7. Karl Rove: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124467554761003983.html
  8. Mark Steyn: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2JmNDJlYTBiMGY2MzNkZDg2ZWM4ZTYzNjVhODU3YmI=&w=MQ==
  9. Evan Thomas, Newsweek: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god
  10. Jim Treacher: http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002078.html
  11. The Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html
  12. Walter Williams: http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/06/10/americans_love_government
  13. Jeremiah Wright: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDY2NTFjNjIwM2QxMTc0N2VlYjlmNzA0ZmU3MmYyMmQ=

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