Category: This Week In Quotes

The peer-reviewed estimates didn’t rely on arrest records but instead on an annual federal Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of about 7,000 young people who answered questions each year from 1997 to 2008 on a range of issues – including if they had ever been taken into custody for something other than a traffic offense. […]

Can we just help people get jobs who live here? We have so many problems in our country. To me, this is so basic. We obviously should be taking care of our own. We’re Americans. Like, why can’t we take care of Americans? And how did that get to be bad? Like, I’m trying to […]

But while upper-middle-class voters are happy to support higher taxes on 1 percenters – not least because they’re tired of trying to compete with them for schools and real estate – they don’t necessarily want a program that would require their own taxes to rise substantially. And this is a problem for the populist left, […]

In a 2012 presentation, Mr. Johnson, then still Penney’s CEO, said the company was selling fewer than one out of every 500 items at full price. Customers were receiving an average discount of 60%, up from 38% a decade earlier. The twist is they weren’t saving more. In fact, the average price paid by customers […]

Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense– the love directed towards him is due to race. The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension. — Ace The only way to fully protect the American people is […]

When signing these bills, Governor Jerry Brown dismissed sexual orientation modification as “quackery,” and Governor Chris Christie said that “people are born gay.” Both these statements ignore empirical evidence that, for many teenagers, sexual orientation is unstable and malleable. The most comprehensive study of sexuality to date, the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey, […]

So I guess I have to join my more radical/Tea Partyish commenters in asking the Old Guard, “If you’re so vital to the movement, and your thinking is so clear and smart, how come you’ve pretty much gotten your asses kicked up and down the block since Iran-Contra?” — Ace That’s why compromise is so […]

A Republican who doesn’t care about Bank of America checks wasn’t possible before the Tea Party. — Timothy Carney If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government […]

Few disagree that, in any national plebiscite, Obamacare would be buried in a landslide. Few disagree that if Obamacare were put to a vote of the Congress today, it would fail in both houses. Why, then, is it radical for the House to use its power of the purse to defund a program America does […]

May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases. — Allan Brauer, the communications chair of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County to Ted Cruz staffer Amanda Carpenter Senate Republicans should be asking themselves why Cruz and Rand Paul, two newcomers to the Senate of decidedly different temperaments, are being talked of as […]

While the president is happy to negotiate with Vladimir Putin, he won’t engage with congress. — John Boehner When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them. — Dick Gregory The Republican establishment resists President Obama and his agenda only when it knows that resistance is futile, token […]

The weak man always secretly hates the strong man, and the deranged weak man sets about doing something about it. And I don’t mean “useful steps towards self-improvement.” Crediting Al Qaeda’s stated reasons for attacking us is like crediting the stated reasons of a Stalker who shows up at your door with a knife and […]

If they were really pulling themselves apart to examine what makes them tick, that could be very useful. And within a few months they wouldn’t be leftists anymore. What they do, always, is pretend to be speaking of themselves — “We must do better” — but their use of “We” is a very odd one. […]

I’m reminded of the observation recently quoted by, I think, Kevin Williamson: “Totalitarianism does not consist of iron law; it consists of capricious law, because those in power get to decide when it will not apply.” — Ace If white liberals are so concerned about black votes counting, why don’t they ever vote for black […]

Masculinity used to indicate a combination of inner and outer strength. Rather than burdening his loved ones with everyday problems a man would silently solve them requiring no salutations. A man was determined, independent, and not easily offended. Personal accomplishments defined him while handouts were the greatest insult. A real man understood that life is […]

In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the […]

Now I’ve already gotten enough mail from you all, you don’t like what I say about not letting your students come here,” he began. “If it were up to me, I would not have another mosque built in this country until we got it worked out who was not a terrorist. — Bob Beckel Of […]

If illegals were Republicans, Chuck Schumer would be a “Minuteman,” patrolling the Mexican border 24-7. — Ann Coulter Lawyers and juries are a mystery beyond my ability to unravel, but I have to say it’s hard to find any trace of Murder Two in the story of a neighborhood watch guy checking out a suspicious […]

Are we witnessing the beginnings of a military overthrow of the US govt? Discuss… — ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) June 27, 2013 For “any (immigration) legislation – including a conference report – to pass the House, it’s going to have to be a bill that has the support of a majority of our members.” — John Boehner Regardless, […]

The only time any Speaker allows a major bill to pass without a majority of the majority is when there is zero leverage. Let me be clear: Immigration is not one of these scenarios. We have plenty of leverage, and I have no intention of putting a bill on the floor that will violate the […]

Republicans are using [the IRS scandal] as their latest weapon in the war against the black man in the White House. IRS” is the new ‘N****r.’” — Martin Bashir I’m telling you, America, if we don’t stop this right now, we will be remembered as the most evil nation in history of the world. We […]

Mr. Holder’s letter answers Mr. Rand’s question, “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill Americans not engaged in combat on U.S. soil. The answer to that question is “no.” — Jay Carney Housing in California is on average 2.7 times more expensive than in Texas. The median house costs […]

The president is really good at campaigning and really bad at governing. So he’s doing what he’s good at. — Whit Ayres California is no longer a model that other states want to or should emulate. It currently has the nation’s third highest unemployment rate, its highest poverty rate and more than one-third of the […]

When’s the last time you hear about rape on a college campus? …’Yes, date rape, that’s one problem,’ Beckel agreed, ‘but you gonna take a gun out and shoot your date’? — Bob Beckel I’m not much different from Andrew Cuomo. I probably agree with him on 98% of the issues. — Chris Christie “Libertarians […]

Every single segregationist in the Senate was a Democrat. Only one of them ever became a Republican: Strom Thurmond. The rest remained not only Democrats, but quite liberal Democrats. These included such liberal luminaries as Harry Byrd, Robert Byrd, Allen Ellender, Albert Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, Walter F. George, Russell Long and Richard Russell. […]

Every person in the world with a healthy (by which I mean “not self-loathing”) ego naturally over-values his own talents and virtues and naturally under-values — and even denigrates — talents and virtues he doesn’t possess. The first things smart kids teach themselves in fifth grade is that athelticism is overrated, and the first thing […]

I don’t do the gay guys man. I don’t do that. No, we don’t got no gay people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do. Can’t be with that sweet stuff. Nah…can’t be…in the locker room man. Nah. — 49ers CB Chris Culliver Well, let’s start with a specific […]

Only liberals are cheered on by the media to let their ideological freak flags fly. When liberals offer “advice” (or “analysis”) to conservatives, it’s always the same: 1. We must compromise. 2. We must concede the general outline of the liberal agenda. 3. We must buckle under — For our survival! And what bothers us […]

It occurred to me, after the Sandy Hook murders, that blaming guns is a secular substitute for blaming the devil. People find it too challenging to figure out why a human being would do this terrible thing and they latch on to the idea that the gun made it happen. Suicide presents a similar challenge, […]