Thread: Quotes

"We've pointed out many times that the Iskander missile deployment in Kaliningrad is only a response to U.S. plans to go ahead with antimissile systems in Europe. If there's no U.S. AMD system at our borders, we won't be placing any missiles in our western territories.”

~ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov~

“Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord."

~ Lenny Bruce ~

"I don't want to appear overly confident here, but they may try for their Gang of 14, but I have a gang of 20 million. And our gang of 20 million will overwhelm their Gang of 14." -- Rush (again)

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.
— John Hodgman

"Last week’s successful election in Iraq was a major step towards the withdrawal of US troops from the country. But some soldiers are jumping the gun. They’re deserting the US army, insisting the occupation is unjust. At present, more than 5,000 troops are missing from duty, the Pentagon says."

~ Russia Today ~

"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

- Prince Philip
(at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

Are victims of the Holocaust capable of committing genocide?

~ Darya Aslamova/The Komsomolskaya Pravda

"Deployment of a missile defence system would bring nothing to security in Europe it would complicate things, and would make them move backward"

~ Nicolas Sarkozy ~

"If new Attorney General Eric Holder really means what he said in his oath – that he will “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” – then he must give serious consideration to prosecuting crimes committed by the Bush administration."

~ Robert Parry ~

"No wonder Democrats don't mind raising our taxes. They apparently don't pay any."
Book of Common Knowledge

"Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty." -- Marine Corps Rules for Gun Fighting

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
— Mark Twain

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ~Joseph Conrad

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.
— George Carlin

"The United States and Western Europe could learn from the previous experience of countries like Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and also Sweden which set up public resolution agencies, and often recovered a lot of public money."

~ IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn ~

There is nothing good in war except its ending

The problem with “finishing the job” in Afghanistan is that it’s no longer entirely clear what the “job” is, or what it would mean to “finish” it.

~ Rosa Brooks ~

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
— Charles Darwin

“Why is the world so worried? It’s the same world that was rushing to sell us nuclear technology in the first place! And now the very same countries are imposing sanctions on us,”

~ Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran ~

"[Reagan and I] knew, too, what did not work, namely socialism in every shape or form. Nowadays socialism is more often dressed up as environmentalism, feminism, or international concern for human rights. All sound good in the abstract. But scratch the surface and you will as likely as not discover anti-capitalism, patronising and distorting quotas, and intrusions upon the sovereignty and democracy of nations." - Margaret Thatcher

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." -- Ronald Reagan

“The United States has concerns, Iran has concerns, but there is almost no recognition in the United States of what Iran’s concerns are. There will have to be some kind of recognition by the United States that if we put our issues on the table, we also have to recognise that they have issues that they can put on the table,”

~ Richard Bulliet ~

"You wanna know the Perfect European? Here he is, Antonio Martino, representing the Italian government as defense minister. First, he says that under no circumstances will the Italian military join the United States in war. Then he says that the United States must not act without the consent and participation of a broad coalition of allies." - Jay Nordlinger

"We don't need bankers to apologise. After all, an apology only carries weight if you respect the person making it."

~ Mark Gay/R.T. ~