With the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the Reagan revolution has at last realized the robber barons’ dream: privatize the profits and socialize the debt. Nicely done, fellas. — a letter to the editor of The New York Times from Candida Pugh of Oakland, Calif.; Sept. 10; emphasis added. We now see the […]
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The object of the political war is not to shrink the state or shut it down; it is to capture the thing and run it for your constituents’ benefit. — from “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” by Thomas Frank; p. 39; emphasis added. When our economy is hurting, the last thing we should do […]
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This represents the final bodies from Katrina, the last unknown victim of Katrina. This represents the pain and suffering. — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Laura Maggi of The Times-Picayune reported that “[s]even people who died during Hurricane Katrina were interred Friday morning in one of six mausoleums created to hold the remains of those […]
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Young man, you have the gift of gab. Keep it up and some day you’ll be President of the United States. — an old Republican to a young Warren G. Harding after his first political speech, according to a New York Times obituary of President Harding; Aug. 3, 1923. I predicted that New Orleans would […]
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In China, size matters. People want to have a car that shows off their status in society. No one wants to buy small. — Zhang Linsen, the 44-year-old founder of a media and graphic design company in Songjiang, China; he owns a black Hummer H2; July 28; emphasis added. It’s a cultural thing. When the […]
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It’s my day off, so I was home, and the ground starts rockin’ and rollin’. So I thought, ‘You know what? I’m gonna go to the bar, drink with my bros, and if this is the Big One, I’ll go down with a cold one.’ — Ed’s Pub patron Michael Gallardo after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake […]
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He is convinced that with the help of God he will win. — Svetozar Vujacic, a lawyer for Radovan Karadzic, who was “twice indicted for genocide for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in 1995 and for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo,” on his plans to conduct his own defense […]
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Our economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience. — President Bush at a press conference; July 16. We’re spending like a drunken sailor. — Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., predicting the federal budget deficit would double this year; according to Manu Raju of The Hill newspaper, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that, for the first nine months […]
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I’ll approach Obama with fearless honesty. He’s a liberal. I oppose liberals. That’s all that’s involved here. — Rush Limbaugh on presidential candidate Barack Obama; Mr. Limbaugh has renewed his contract with Premiere Radio Networks and Clear Channel Radio, which will pay him more than $400 million; Mr. Limbaugh once referred to Sen Obama and […]
A Fourth of July Quotabull
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for […]
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I don’t have pet peeves. I have major, psychotic hatreds. — George Carlin, who died early this week at age 71; June 23
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I know that I speak for all Americans. We’ll do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain while inspecting flooding in Columbus Junction, Iowa, a town of 1,900 people; June 20; emphasis added. The country stands with you. We’ll do all in our power to help you. — […]
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You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it. — Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television, in a story about “[a]n unusually large number of classic characters for children … being freshened up and reintroduced — on store shelves, on the Internet and on television screens […]
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We were just having fun making posters. There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment. — Stanley Mouse, artistic partner of Alton Kelley; the pair created hundreds of classic psychedelic rock posters and threw “the […]
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[P]erhaps the most compelling evidence against the existence of a boys’ crisis is that men continue to outearn women in the workplace. — from a report by the American Association of University Women, “whose 1992 report on how girls are shortchanged in the classroom caused a national debate over gender equity,” that debunks the notion […]
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Hhaing The Yu, 29, in rain falling on the ruins of his home, in a township outside Yangon, Myanmar. This is not about politics; it is about saving people’s lives. There is absolutely no more time to lose. — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pressing the military junta in Myanmar to accept international assistance […]
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