Category: This Week In Quotes

Surging above $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt has surpassed credit card and auto-loan debt. This debt explosion jeopardizes the fragile recovery, increases the burden on taxpayers and possibly sets the stage for a new economic crisis. — APNews I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m […]

I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president, having to uphold Roe v. Wade. And I did everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. I made it easy to adopt children, for instance, that were unwanted and […]

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? Too soon, right? — Robert De Niro I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and […]

If you’ve ever wondered what Government By Hippies might look like, now you know. — Ace Cultural Diversity: Only two cultures are permitted– atheistic and Islamic. — Ace When it’s useful, the 99% claims everyone in the 99%.But when someone gets raped, Occupy starts getting very exclusive about who is part of the “movement.” — […]

By the way, have you noticed that many people from Obama’s past live in abject poverty? His half brother lives in a shack in Kenya, his aunt and uncle live on the dole in Boston illegally. And his childhood nanny who’s transgendered lives in a filthy slum in Indonesia…Pay no attention to the way Obama […]

“Let’s support children who do exist.” Oh, that reminds me. The great atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledges that God might exist. In that spirit, shouldn’t pro-choice people acknowledge that children in the womb might exist? But the big question, in both cases, is: What are you going to do about it? — Ann Althouse “I used […]

There is no anti-woman move whatsoever. The Republican Party is extremely pro-woman. — Michele Bachmann In fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent $910 billion on 70 means-tested programs, which comes to an average of $9,000 per year on every lower-income person in the United States. — Pat Buchanan Half of all children born to […]

“Massachusetts is your bitchy spinster telling you to sit up straight.” — Tucker Carlson The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that […]

You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a […]

(If the rich are evil) why are you sitting in their library? Why are you sitting in their hall? Why did I just listen to a whole show on orangutans with no commercials that they paid for? — Adam Carolla The buzz in Washington now is that the Republican Establishment fears Gingrich will cause them […]

Mitt Romney: Because “electability” doesn’t have to mean an actual record of winning elections. — Ace Still, just because the private equity revolution was necessary doesn’t mean that it was an unmitigated good. And for Mitt Romney to frame criticisms of Bain as just “the bitter politics of envy,” as he did last week, displays […]

Romney is starting to come across as a bully. Everybody understands that he has all these friends who can write big checks and they hide behind a super PAC, and they run negative ads. And that comes across as the rich kid who shows up showing you all the toys he has and then, when […]

Last chance for light bulbs. Make sure you’ve got enough to last a lifetime… with extras to leave to your children and grandchildren… so that they can know that once there was light… and it was a warm light… there were bulbs that glowed. And the heartless government, which had no feeling for warmth and […]

A Washington Post opinion piece cites a survey that found “African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.” And blacks are 25 percent of New York City’s population. Occupy Wall Street was a home game for them. By contrast, 6 percent of tea party […]

Another reason Gingrich isn’t fading is Mitt Romney. Let’s face it: Mitt Romney is the Republican version of Al Gore. Even people who are predisposed to liking him can’t seem to get there. — Jed Babbin The very problems that have roiled Europe’s economy are coming to a slow boil in the U.S. Just as […]

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 […]

For Americans who are unaware of the Democrats’ history of repeatedly reneging on their promises to cut spending in return for tax hikes, the Republicans’ opposition to tax increases does seem crazy. That’s why Republicans need to remind them. — Ann Coulter So when we get to the general election, Mitt Romney will have Jenn […]

“Sexual harassment” is an amorphous word that can be manipulated to infer guilt onto anyone. At some point society has to say enough is enough, this is overkill. Most men are friendly in the workplace and when their friendliness rises to the level of flirting it is all too frequently welcomed and encouraged. The rare […]

I have a pretty good idea how the 21st century works and (pause) there’s not a single successful country on the planet that operates on the theory that the government is the problem (pause) not one. Every successful country has both a strong private economy and a smart, strong government that work together to provide […]

Obama, who sounded so fresh in 2008, now sometimes sounds a bit like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi. Obama, who inspired the country, now threatens to run a campaign that is viciously negative. Obama, who is still widely admired because he is reasonable and calm, is in danger of squandering his best asset by pretending […]

In New York, marchers chanted, “This is what democracy looks like,” but, actually, this isn’t what democracy looks like. This is what freedom of speech looks like. Democracy looks a lot more boring. Democracy requires institutions, elections, political parties, rules, laws, a judiciary, and many unglamorous, time-consuming activities, none of which are nearly as much […]

You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street. The problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! — Herman Cain ‘[Obama’s] never been a part of the black experience in America.’ — Herman Cain I don’t believe racism, in this country t oday, holds anybody back in a big way. Is there some, are there some elements […]

I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation […]

They talk to us about the Jewish state, but I respond to them with a final answer: We shall not recognize a Jewish state. — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect, who’s a great actor, has he ever been to a Tea Party? Most of the people […]

You know, if a ballplayer threw a game and they get caught, they go to jail. Well, what are we going to do to the Republicans who are throwing the country? “They’re throwing our country, and they all should be put in jail for what they’re doing, because they’re destroying our country, because they said […]

“That’s why I said of President Bush today, I mean, imagine being president, having that news (of 9/11) given to you and having to react and trying to compute all this and figure exactly where to go. I mean, and I thought the way he handled events from that moment until we took down the […]

As reported here previously, African-Americans are hardly underrepresented in the U.S. government. Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks hold 18 percent of all federal jobs. African-Americans are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of State Department employees, 37 percent of the Department of […]

You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand – I’m not second-guessing – of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable. — Joe Biden on China’s one child policy I’m […]

The entire Democratic Party is currently promising to “save” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in their present form. According to Obama’s own Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, in less than 10 years, spending on those three entitlement programs, plus servicing the national debt, will consume 92 cents of every dollar in the federal budget. The Democrats […]

But like Louis XVI, British authorities are paralyzed by their indifference to their own civilization. A half-century of berating themselves for the crime of being British has left them morally defenseless. They see nothing about England worth saving, certainly not worth fighting for — which is fortunate since most of their cops don’t have guns. […]