security. — Obama foreign policy adviser Richard Danzig
39) I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet
paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-
abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an
industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one
square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions
where 2 to 3 could be required. — Sheryl Crow
38) In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone
who's suffering. [But we must also think about] the terrorists who are
creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the
negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as
expansive as possible. If you can see [the terrorists] as a relative
who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the
medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better. — Richard
Gere
37) George Bush doesn't care about black people…They're giving the
Army permission to go down and shoot us. — Kayne West on the rescue
efforts in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina
36) "Rove's re-election strategy was elegantly simple: Scare the
bejesus out of Jesusland. F@ggots are headed your way! Satanic Muslims
are hiding everywhere! That's all it took to get Jesusland to do the
job. Intellectual conservatives like the National Review staff are
flattering themselves if they honestly believe Jesusland cares about
conservative thought. The "reality-based" folks are learning that
Jesusland doesn't even care about jobs or the economy. In Jesusland,
it's all the will of Jesus. No job? No money? Daughter got her clit
pierced? Jesus is just f*cking with you again, testing your faith. Got
the cancer? Oh well. Soon you'll be with Jesus. Reality is no match
for a mystical world in which an all-powerful god is constantly toying
with every detail of your mundane life, just to see what you'll do
about it. Keep praying and always keep your eye out for homosexuals
and terrorists, and you will eventually be rewarded … all you have to
do is die, and then it's SuperJesusLand, where you will be a ghost
floating in a magic cloud with all the other ghosts from Jesusland,
with Jesus Himself presiding over an Eternal Church Service." — Ken
Layne
35) Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is
it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before. — Rahm
Emanuel
34) I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case,
this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack
Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. — "Journalist"
Chris Matthews
33) Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the
government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews
with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by
what I saw and heard, awful things that could not be reported because
doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly
those on our Baghdad staff…I felt awful having these stories bottled
up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we
will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the
decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely. — CNN
chief news executive Eason Jordan in a New York Times column,
admitting that CNN often didn't report newsworthy events in Iraq out
of fear of what the regime might do
32) We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the
word terrorist….To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the
World Trade Center a terrorist attack. -– Steven Jukes, global head of
news for Reuters News Service, in an internal memo
31) The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an
opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I
sit here in my capacity right now. — David Westin, ABC News President
30) You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of
small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years
and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton
Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive
administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get
bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who
aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment
as a way to explain their frustrations. — Barack Obama
29) It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd
spit on her if I saw her. — Geraldo Rivera
28) Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has
hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than
Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux
Klan ever was. — MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
27) …I would further strongly urge Democrats who don't believe
marriage is between a man and a woman but who feel they ought to
pretend to believe this in order to win elections (a plausible
position) need to do a better job of pretending. I've heard a
shockingly large number of politicians say things, in rooms where
journalists are present, that make it perfectly clear that they think
gay marriage is just fine but that the voters aren't ready for it.
That's a sensible thing to believe, but you can't go around saying it
if you're trying to win votes. If you're going to lie, then lie — and
lie convincingly! — Matthew Yglesias
26) "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on
Election Day. It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost
that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes. You target
(Bush's) natural constituencies. For example, you can go on all the
pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and
that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion
clinic and paid for her to get an abortion." — Kerry supporter Moby
explains his unique political strategy that has since been much more
widely adopted by the Left
25) I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't
understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my
mental health — New York city councilman Charles Barron
24) While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we
understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything –
America owes us. — Al Sharpton
23) The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand
the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About
what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like
your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people
care about patriotism. — Natalie Maines
22) America has been killing people on this continent since it was
started. This country is not worth dying for… — Cindy Sheehan
21) And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for
the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major
tragedy for the world. — Jimmy Carter castigates the British for
cooperating with his own country
20) Check out this startling excerpt from George Monbiot's new book
Heat. It's about the climate-change "denial industry," which most of
you are probably familiar with. What you may not know about is the
peculiar role of the tobacco industry in the whole mess. I've read
about this stuff for years and even I was surprised by some of the
details. When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when
the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide
scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for
these b*stards — some sort of climate Nuremberg. — David Roberts,
Grist Magazine
19) Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your
doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing
defenseless animals that they could be next! — From a PETA booklet
called "Your Daddy Kills Animals," which was designed to be handed out
to children
18) I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has
ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World
Trade Center tower 7 — building 7, which collapsed in on itself — it
is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without
explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center]
1 and 2 got hit by planes — 7, miraculously, the first time in
history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible. —
Rosie O'Donnell talks Trutherism
17) Is there such a thing as a man made stroke? In other words, did
someone do this to him? — Joy Behar, on The View, wonders if
Republicans gave Senator Tim Johnson a stroke.
16) Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan,
how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done
by the previous administration because they knew very well that if
they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an
invasion in Iraq. There's no question that the leader of the military
operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from
going after the head of al Qaeda. — Congressman Maurice Hinchey
15) Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary
of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the
president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not
accomplishing anything. — Democratic Senator Majority Leader, Harry
Reid
14) Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi
Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the
Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. They
released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against
America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which
to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against
America. — Bill Clinton explains to a Long Island, N.Y., business
group why he turned down Sudan's offer to extradite Osama Bin Laden to
America in 1996
13) If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and
looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we
have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to
prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon
capture and sequestration. — Al Gore
12) (Rush Limbaugh) just wants the country to fail. To me that's
treason. He's not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden
is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush
Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on
Oxycontin he missed his flight. … Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country
fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? — Wanda Sykes
11) I have a good news to report; Glen Beck appears closer to suicide
– I'm hoping that he does it on camera; suicide is rampant in his
family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-
destruction, I am only hoping that when Glen Beck does put a gun to
his head and pulls the trigger, that it will be on television, because
somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular
video for months. — Mike Malloy
10) The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I
don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist
called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called
George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy
Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of
America. — Malik Zulu Shabazz
9) "It's about time that we have an intifada in this country that
changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know
every — They're gonna say some Palestinian being too radical — well,
you haven't seen radicalism yet." — U.C. Berkeley Lecturer Hatem
Bazian fires up the crowd at an anti-war rally by calling for an
American intifada
8) The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes
a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No,
no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent
people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human.
God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme. Jeremiah Wright
7) I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see
one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself
longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature's fist of fury,
Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon
nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal
habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and
teach us that there are forces greater than our own. — James Wolcott,
Vanity Fair Contributing Editor
6) General Petraeus or General Betray Us? …Today, before Congress and
the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General
Betray Us. — MoveOn
5) Through every Abu aib and Haditha, through every rape and murder,
the American public has indulged those in uniform….We pay the soldiers
a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing
and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene
amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every
possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll
over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let
them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to
speak up because they are above society?…[T]he recent NBC report is
just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary — oops
sorry, volunteer — force that thinks it is doing the dirty work. — The
Washington Post's William Arkin
4) In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby
killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will
tell you – there has never been an army as violent and murderous as
our army has been in Iraq. — Seymour Hersh
3) Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in
natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home,
the average I.Q. soared. — Ted Rall
2) As to those in the World Trade Center…Let's get a grip here, shall
we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a
break. …If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other
way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the
little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers,
I'd really be interested in hearing about it. — Ward Churchill
1) The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not
'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION,
the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win." —
Michael Moore
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