Category: This Week In Quotes

If you call that a ‘redistribution of income’ – well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair. — Joe Biden I’ve never seen anyone who is as amateurish in the conduct of his foreign relations as this president… It’s dumb and it’s what he’s done time and time […]

This is a big f***ing deal! — Joe Biden I can’t imagine that a Republican Congress is going to give this president the money to begin this process. — John Boehner on health care This health care bill would ruin our country. — John Boehner Look, the people who are opposing this are holding tea […]

The liberal argument is easily grasped by children, because it rarely includes the ideas of costs or tradeoffs. That’s why children and teenagers tend to be liberal in their thinking. Do you want to feed the hungry? Clothe the naked? Heal the sick? Boy do I!!! These are very simplistic propositions, and furthermore come from […]

I may be guilty of extortion, but I never took a bribe. — Monica Conyers Big business is not “right wing,” it’s vampiric. It will pursue any opportunity to make a big profit at little risk. Getting in bed with politicians is increasingly the safest investment for these “crony capitalists.” — Jonah Goldberg Back in […]

Most people would say the success of Jersey Shore is a clear signal that the human race should just pack it in and hand the planet over to the dolphins, but for Nicole “Snooki” Palazzi it’s all good news… — Agent Bedhead If none of the advice given by ACORN on those videotapes constitutes conspiracy […]

(I missed getting up last week’s “This week in quotes because of CPAC, so here’s a couple of week’s worth). So if (Obama and Biden are) going to take credit for (Iraq), fair enough, for what they’ve done while they’re there, but it ought to go with a healthy dose of “Thank you, George Bush” […]

I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. — Joe Biden Republicans should defend any investment houses that never benefited from a government bailout. But anyone who took huge gambles, lost and got bailed out with taxpayer money should be tortured and […]

But don’t rule out Republican suicide. Their impulse is to work across the aisle and make deals. Holding the line causes them psychic pain. Guys like Lyndsey Graham and John McCain and Olympia Snowe want, so badly, to be helpy helpers — the Democrats’ legislation is just too damn bad to do it. — Melissa […]

My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. […]

There’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this. If you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up. The only we are able to govern successfully in this country is by liberals and progressives making common cause with […]

I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up. — Rod Blagojevich It’s not the ‘Kennedy Seat. It’s the people’s seat. — Scott Brown Coakley bristles at […]

People just don’t want this bill. I think the big mistake was skipping the step of winning public support for a particular plan. It wasn’t enough that people believed there was a problem. People needed to believe the solution wasn’t worse than the problem. We were supposed to look away and trust them. The trust […]

The financial crisis killed small entrepreneurs as surely as Joseph Stalin killed the kulaks, and the roots of the economy are dead and dry. — David Goldman “Either the war (in Afghanistan) is vital, or it’s not. It can’t be vital until an arbitrary deadline.” — Michael Goodwin The response to my op-ed by global […]

“Here’s a guy without much experience, who campaigned against much of what we put in place … and who now travels around the world apologizing. I think our adversaries – especially when that’s preceded by a deep bow … – see that as a sign of weakness.” — Dick Cheney (The federal government is) “doing […]

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Michael Barone What a good country or a good […]

So the problem with the party regulars in Washington, who seem to be too much detached from real people, is they’ve got what I call this itty bitty schizophrenic concept of a Big Tent — which is we’re going to have a party where half of our candidates run like Ronald Reagan and the other […]

A Veteran knows things: He knows life is precious, because he’s seen life cut short. He knows life is strange, because those that should die live and those who have the most life sometimes die. He knows life is not easily wrapped up in a box philosophically. He knows that plans fail. He knows there’s […]

“We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan.” — Hillary Clinton Maybe the greatest thing about human beings is if you show us the most desolate, horrible place on Earth, at least one of us will scratch his chin and say, “I bet land […]

“I mean, why watch the nightly news when you are the nightly news.” — George W. Bush Now, while Obama’s original birth certificate has never been made public, Hawaii has issued a certificate of live birth that declares Barack Obama to be a forty-eight-year-old man. Usually I’d consider something like that official enough, but evidence […]

At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC’s primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures. — […]

The enormous cost of losing in Afghanistan is yet to dawn on the American public. Should the US and Nato withdraw, neighboring regional powers such as Russia, China and Iran will rush to fill the vacuum. None of them will be friendly to US interests in the region. Pakistanis who already harbor considerable resentment towards […]

“Listen I think it’s a great idea to promote Chicago but he’s the president of the United States, not the mayor of Chicago. And the problems we have here at home affect all Americans and that’s where his attention ought to be.” — John Boehner slams Obama for going overseas to promote Chicago for the […]

The way you persuade a voter to your cause is to keep the initial intellectual buy-in as low as possible. The same way you’d induce a casual player to play poker — you don’t tell him it’s $50 minimum bet, $150 maximum raise. You bring him into a low-stakes game with a tiny buy-in. Schwarzenegger […]

It’s easier for the left to play the race card than address the public’s legitimate concerns, but what the left and the media are doing is damaging and dangerous. It’s damaging because when everything is racist, then nothing is. Those who cry racism without evidence will cause people to tune out in cases in which […]

I reject the whole Birth Certificate Conspiracy. I don’t buy it. It requires the falsification of too many facts I know to be true to be considered borderline-plausible. But I’ll tell you one thing: You need to falsify far more facts, and assume much greater malignancy of the main actors, to buy into Trutherism. Birtherism […]