Thread: Quotes

"Socialism, is a bad word when it comes to social services and health care, but not when it comes to corporate bailouts."

"Capitalists are all for the socialist bail-out of Wall Street. Capitalism is fine, as long as wealthy conservatives are making money. When it comes to losing money, bring on the socialism."

"Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God." -- Robin Hayes

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

"Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God." -- Robin Hayes

~Hayes repeatedly denied that he had made this statement and accused reporters of "irresponsible journalism", until an audio recording attesting to the statement was released.~

"There are no restraints on the press, and we're corrupt. We are absolutely corrupt."

~William James O'Reilly, Jr.~

"I know the American financial community didn't show up in Davos to listen.''

~WEF Senior Director W. Lee Howell~

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” -- Cicero 106 - 43 BC

"All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

~Benjamin Franklin~

The government is best which governs least.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“[B]y ‘redistributing wealth,’ as Obama wants the government to do, he’s actually reducing overall wealth in the economy by taking away capital from those who can invest it efficiently in direct job creation. And the real irony is that if Obama is elected and succeeds in raising taxes on the top 5 percent, he’s likely to collect less tax, not more, if history is a guide.” -- Linda Chavez

“People who put faith in government to solve national or even individual problems are headed for deep disappointment, if it hasn’t already arrived. Still, that doesn’t stop politicians from attempting to sell political snake oil to the gullible. No one ever lost money betting on the ignorance of the uninformed masses.” -- Cal Thomas

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," -- Barack Hussein Obama

"What if McCain had picked Mitt Romney. A self-made man with plenty of clothes and a knowledge of the economy that the current ticket is sorely lacking. And while he probably can’t see Russia from his state, he could probably name at least one newspaper that he reads every day. And if he won, he probably wouldn’t go to Washington in January thinking he was “in charge of the Senate.”

~Jack Cafferty~

"McCain should go big at the end. But if he wants to win over independents and undecideds, he should not go big by going negative. That's the worst thing he could do,"

~John Avalon/Independent Nation~

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

"Investors speculating on a rebound in U.S. stocks may have a better chance in the first year of a Barack Obama presidency than a John McCain administration, if election history is any guide.
Since 1900, the Dow Average rose 9.8 percent in the 12 months after the Democratic Party captured the White House, based on the median change following the election of seven Democrats from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton. Among newly elected Republicans, five -- including Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush -- preceded stock-market declines, with a median retreat of 2.5 percent for all 10."

~Bloomberg Financial~

"The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr Obama."

"Obama is not very smart" -- Bill Clinton

Okay, so that's not exactly what he said but it's pretty much the gist of his "praise" of Obama's handling of the economic crisis.

"You know what he did?" Clinton said, heralding Obama's reaction to the financial crisis. "First he took a little heat for not saying much. I knew what he was doing. He talked to his advisers – he talked to my economic advisers, he called Hillary. He called me. He called Warren Buffet. He called all those people, you know why? Because he knew it was complicated and before he said anything he wanted to understand."

Originally Posted by Lambik

"The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr Obama."

Obama has made such a muddle of his Iraq position that his endorsers can attribute to him a position he doesn’t have.

The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

"There will not be a comeback curmudgeon by the name of John McCain"

~Kenneth Duberstein/Chief of staff for Ronald Reagan/Bloomberg Television

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
— Socrates

"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

~Denis E. Waitley~

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr

"The steps taken by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to save financial markets ``weren't smart.''

~Robert J. Aumann/ Nobel prize in economics~

"Republicans' chances in U.S. Senate races are doomed by an unpopular president, an unpopular war...."

~National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign~

And then it started, like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
— William Shakespeare

"If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, DC, which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation." -- David Swanson, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America