Category: This Week In Quotes

Welcome to the Cracked Head Club. — Joe Biden to Gabrielle Giffords I think, frankly, (Obama’s) in over his head as to what to do about this economy. — Eric Cantor A sugar-coated Satan sandwich. — Rep. Emanuel Cleaver on the debt ceiling increase deal Every fifth man you pass on the sidewalk does not […]

It’s nice to see the good in people. It’s nicer for you if the good you see is actually there. — Amy Alkon Part of the problem is today, only 53% pay any federal income tax at all; 47% pay nothing. We need to broaden the base so that everybody pays something, even if it’s […]

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo […]

Is there any policy reason why Obama won’t agree to a short-term deal or is this really as horribly cynical as it looks – that he simply refuses to do anything that might complicate his reelection campaign, even if that means a default by the United States? — AllahPundit So a dollar used to purchase […]

I want you to know, as president of the United States, I look forward to creating real jobs for both the Treasury secretary and the president of the United States. — Michele Bachmann And don’t any of you, by the way, any of you guys vote Republican. I’m not supposed to say, this isn’t political. […]

People are generally skeptical of government, and increasingly believe government and law are a crooked game which a Good Citizen ought to respect only to the extent necessary to avoid jailtime. — Ace It’s mob mentality. People are braver when it’s in a bag or a bottle, and when they’re in the majority. All I […]

But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you on Qadhafi’s side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people and the international coalition that has been created to support them? For the Obama Administration, the answer to that question is very easy. — Hillary Clinton A […]

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning? — Herman Cain I believe homosexuality is a sin because I’m a Bible-believing Christian, I believe it’s a sin. But I know that some people make that choice. That’s their choice. — Herman Cain Every time […]

My advice (to Anthony Weiner) would be to come clean and clear it up. Again, perhaps he’s trying, but I know there’s a lot of explaining going on but without a lot of clarity. And again, the American people are right in saying that they don’t have tolerance for this repeated kind of activity going […]

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it? — Michael Barone Right behind her was a little kid who was patted down. And then right behind him was a guy in Arabian dress who just walked right through. Why are […]

Plus, I hate guys showing off their abs. It’s vulgar. That’s why I don’t do it. In fact, I find it so vulgar I have taken great precautions to make sure I never cross this line, such as dilligently encasing my rippling abs in a protective slab of Modesty Fat. — Ace Root-canal economics has […]

For every person who goes to market seeking to purchase snake-oil and magic beans, there is at least one person who will set up a stand and agree to sell him such products.– Ace There’s much that’s unrealistic about pledging eternal monogamy, but sexually open relationships don’t work for a whole lot of people. — […]

Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand? — Joy Behar The total public debt owed — increased on Clinton’s watch, and like all recent presidents, Clinton left the country with more than a trillion dollars deeper in debt than when he began – even with the late 1990s economic boom. According to […]

All told: If you’re in a liberal-leaning group and are comfortable enough economically to only care about more abstract things like social issues (abortion forever), racial solidarity (gotta give our brother a second chance), racial condescension (wouldn’t be fair to boot out a black guy just because he’s unqualified and a failure), and also don’t […]

I’ll tell you another thing I never could have predicted: That the guy who bought himself a year’s worth of no-comment by deferring important questions to a commission, and then promptly ignored that commission’s recommendations, would then make a major announcement that he fully intends to appoint a new commission. — Ace Status quo and […]

Defense officials slammed the brakes on any broad participation Thursday, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying there will be no American ground troops in Libya “as long as I am in this job.” — Associated Press I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the […]

‘Here’s the bottom line: Democrats are rooting for a government shutdown. We’re listening to the people who sent us here to cut spending so we can grow our economy.’ — John Boehner Reducing and eliminating needless spending and programs are appropriate, but a wholesale reduction in spending, without considering economic, cultural, and social impacts is […]

At this point, feminism is chiefly a guild interested in securing advantage for its members at the disadvantage of its non-members, and can and should then be treated as such by non-members. — Ace Public sector workers are pursuing their own narrow financial interests to the detriment of everyone else in their states. That’s fine, […]

As has been noted many, many times (not that lefty feminists ever notice), we did in fact have a Sexual Revolution, and men won. And the strangest thing about this is that lefty feminists, while claiming (and falsely believing) themselves to be liberating women, have in fact been eagerly liberating men, liberating men from the […]

Partisans tend to love very partisan-sounding politicians because such politicians give voice to their beliefs and feelings. And not very partisan sounding politicians are often derided as squishy. But at the end of the day it’s the guy who doesn’t sound partisan, but is unflinching on principle, who actually gets things done. — Ace Americans […]

Clown Nose On, Clown Nose Off: That’s how Treacher described Jon Stewart’s very selective stance as to whether he was “just a comedian” and it therefore didn’t matter if he was saying nonsense or whether he was a sage outsider commentator on political affairs. The global warmistas have a similar tactic. When asked to explain […]

Please don’t talk about the good old days of 50-cent steaks when people were getting paid what would now be Tooth Fairy money. — Mark M., M. Asher Cantrell Millions are in an uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is available online at http://bit.ly/kcairo – KC. — Kenneth Cole We’re […]

But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. — Michelle Bachmann I would not refer to (Mubarak) as a dictator. — Joe Biden I got a quality education that took me on to a law degree from the University of […]

There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit. But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within […]

Gun control is too simple a phrase to define all the complications and nuances of it, frankly. In Arizona they have a wide open system. I would be nervous about going into a bar or restaurant in Arizona on a Saturday night where people can carry concealed without permits. — Tom Brokaw When you look […]

The banks shouldn’t – people shouldn’t make such a giant profit off just moving money back and forth. And CEOs’ pay shouldn’t be 200 times the average worker. It used to be nine times. — Ben Affleck, who makes 37 million dollars a year acting Heading into a new year with a new Legislature and […]

It is a statistical impossibility that the group of Katie Courics, Contessa Brewers, Keith Olbermanns, et al. have never in their lives gotten unexpectedly and unwantedly pregnant. So what are they all really mocking Bristol Palin for? Not that she became pregnant out of wedlock; at least 35% of them (if not more) have gotten […]

What we said back last Thanksgiving and repeated again and got the living Devil beat out of us by good friends like John McCain and others, we said, ‘Look, beginning in the summer of 2011, we’re going to begin to transition. That commitment will be kept. We said then the slope and the pace of […]

It’s similarly pointless to treat all Americans as if they’re potential terrorists while trying to find and confiscate anything that could be used as a weapon. We can’t search all passengers for explosives because Muslims stick explosives up their anuses. (Talk about jobs Americans just won’t do.) You have to search for the terrorists. Fortunately, […]