Category: This Week In Quotes

Spread Your Legs, You’re Gonna Be Frisked. — Joe Biden to Heidi Heitkamp Go f*** yourself. — John Boehner to Harry Reid Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option – keep your gun but permit it. — Andrew Cuomo Savers are getting ripped […]

The president will have a decision to make. He can call on the Senate Democrats to pass our bill, or he can be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history. — John Boehner I’m not leaving here to be an advocate for the Republican party. — Jim DeMint I’m not suggesting by any […]

(Obama needs to) “Work like a 3rd world dictator & just put all these guys in jail.” — Harry Belafonte on Republicans I got a new movie coming out ‘Django Unchained’. And in the movie I got to wear chains, how whack is that. But don’t be worried about it because in the movie I […]

In 1960, the percentage of the economically active 18-to-64 population receiving disability benefits was 0.65%. In 2010, it was 5.6%. — Michael Barone Whites are 76 percent of the electorate over the age of 30 and only 58 percent of the electorate under 30. Obama won the “youth vote” because it is the knife’s edge […]

He’s correct when he notes how indignantly and angrily and dismissively the press responds to criticisms about their obvious liberal bias. I think of it like this: If you tell someone who’s not an alcoholic that he’s drinking too much, he’ll take an interest in your statement. He might be incredulous, but he’ll ask things […]

Will the Millennials stay Democratic? The baby boomers cast equal numbers of votes for George McGovern and Richard Nixon in 1972, while their elders favored Nixon by nearly 2-1. But this year, boomers (now age 45 to 64) backed Romney. Youthful political attitudes don’t always endure. — Michael Barone Almost certainly, Obamacare will fail. And […]

“When you (Obama) act like that, when you blame other people and when you use profane language, and when you act like you’re a 10-year-old, sometimes as in the debates, I don’t think that independent voters and undecided voters are really moved by that. — Jeb Bush (Joseph Lowery), who gave the benediction at the […]

She goes to Washington, D.C., it’s a little bit like one of those dogs, ‘fetch,’”. She goes to Washington, D.C., and get all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri. It seems to me that she’s […]

Governor Romney’s argument is, we’re not fixed, so fire him and put me in. It is true we’re not fixed. When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, I had so much hope four years ago and I don’t now, I thought he was going to cry. Because […]

The stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind. — Joe Biden The bottom line: Historically speaking, this president is in weaker shape than any postwar incumbent who went on to victory, with the possible exception of Harry Truman; he is enjoying a convention bounce later in the cycle than any incumbent in […]

11 year later in the war on terror, Obama has turned ‘let’s roll’ into let’s apologize. — Erick Erickson We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article […]

Obama, 42 months into his term, has overseen a net loss of 300,000 jobs. He has yet to pass a balanced budget; our debt has increased 51 percent — from $10.6 trillion to more than $16 trillion. U.S. gross domestic product annual growth is 1.7 percent. Unemployment exceeds 8 percent. More than 17 percent of […]

They say African Americans. I say black people. I’ve only been to Africa once. I’ve been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Stay informed because stupid people are ruining America! They are! — Herman Cain R convention delay due to Isaac: I guess God has ways to shut that whole thing down. — […]

If we want to keep our reproductive rights, we must be willing to tell our stories, to be willing and able to say, “I love my life, but I wish my mother had aborted me.” — Lynn Beisner They want to put y’all back in chains! — Joe Biden I mean, I think that (Ryan’s) […]

(Mitt Romney) had (a fundraiser) in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don’t know the names of them. — Bob Beckel We still have laws that encourage torture, we did not change Guantanamo, we have laws that allow the police to arrest you at any time, not having to tell you why, and […]

It’s a wonderment to me that the Government Workers and Government Clients spend so much time and effort assiduously insuring that their incomes always rise, but then, when taxpayers, who are after all signing these checks, object that they’d like to see property tax rates capped so that they themselves can have a little more […]

We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We operate as a family business … our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. […]

Consider this: the U.S. economy has created 2.6 million jobs since June 2009. In the same period, 3.1 million workers have signed up for disability benefits. Back in 1992 there was one person on disability benefits for every 36 people in employment. Now the ratio is 1 to 16. Unemployment is being concealed–and rendered permanent–in […]

Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for […]

Your premise is that comity exists now. It may not be entirely accurate. It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. I don’t know that I […]

I mean, I’d like to see (Mitt Romney’s) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool – the Mormon fire patrol. — Joy Behar The private sector is doing fine. — Barack Obama As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it’s always for teachers, […]

My period comes like twice a month. My eggs are jumping ship. Seriously, they’re like, ‘the last one out’s a retard. I get worried about that, as an older woman, I don’t necessarily want to have a retard. — Margaret Cho It is a major crusade of mine and that is to get rid of […]

We’ve got to do something. Everybody is wringing their hands saying we’ve got to do something. Well, here is a concrete thing. You can still buy large bottles in stores. But in a restaurant, 16 ounces is the maximum that they would be able to serve in one cup. If you want to order two […]

I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If […]

It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has finally come around to the Dick Cheney position on marriage equality. — Chris Barron. GOProud I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same […]

Democracies end when power is moved farther and farther from actual democratic processes. First, the state governments (standing closest to the citizen) is diminished in favor of a centralized government that answers chiefly to bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the permanent Washington government establishment; then the elected members of Congress are diminished in favor of unelected bureaucrats […]

The real issue that all voters will face in November is this: Do I want to sign up for a repeat of the last four years or do I want a chance at something different? The Reagan-Carter race was, according to the polls, fairly close until the end, when people finally stopped thinking about mere […]