Thread: Quotes

In fact, Vice President Cheney stated the day before the war, “Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”

link to quote: NBC: CIA warned of risks of war in the Mideast - Lisa Myers & the NBC News Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com

"The Candidates That Can't Face Fox, Can't Face Al Qaeda" -- Fox News chief Roger Ailes

The media fabricates more than two thirds of public opinion from which the foam of the parliamentary Aphrodite rises.” -- Joachim Fest

"In accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed."

-1984

"President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws." -- Ann Coulter

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in Poverty.

Where in the US is Poverty? Texas?

White people scare the crap out of me. … I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord … never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'
-Michael Moore

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. People are easily manipulated . . . and we have disastrous media.
-Michael Moore

"There are no innocent civilians so it doesn't bother me to be killing innocent bystanders”

Major General Curtis LeMay to Time magazine
the worlds first neo-con?

“First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”

President Eisenhower to Time Magazine, 1963, reiterating his views of the atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki.

"For Marx, capitalism functioned only by exploiting the proletariat. But the proletariat got richer and bought homes in the suburbs. So the next generation of Marxists turned their attention to "colonialism": capitalism functioned only by looting the West's imperial possessions. But the West decolonized in the Fifties and Sixties, and they didn't get any poorer, only the colonies did. So the Marxists invented "neo-colonialism": capitalism functioned by informally exploiting the nominally independent developing world. But the dramatically differing rates at which developing economies developed in Asia, Africa, and Latin America seemed to have little to do with external forces and a lot more to do with obvious local factors." - Marc Steyn

"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
Leon Trotsky

"The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection."
Mahatma Gandhi

Time is Bunk.

Douglas Adams

I think that [the film] 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Alicia Silverstone

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

Ted Lowe

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

President George Bush.

Best advice: Don't tell porkies if you don't have a good memory
Next best advice: If you must tell the truth, have your car parked right outside with the engine running.

Me.

Originally Posted by stroller

"The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection." Mahatma Gandhi

I always knew Gandhi was full of shit.

If Scooter Libby goes to jail, it will be because he made a telephone call to Tim Russert and because Tim Russert has a different recollection of the conversation. Can this really be the case? And why is such a nugatory issue a legal matter in the first place? ... Does it not seem extraordinary that a man can be prosecuted, and now be condemned to a long term of imprisonment, because of an alleged minor inconsistency of testimony in a case where it is admitted that there was no crime and no victim? -- Christopher Hitchens

"The American military has succeeded.” "It is the Iraqi government that has failed to make the tough decisions." -- Hillary Clinton

"I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong." --Salman Rushdie

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. Mae West