Thread: Quotes

"The baht is likely to continue depreciating for a time, and this would benefit exporters"

~ Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij ~

"The increase in gun sales is the only genuine economic stimulus that can be credited to Obama." -- Jim Geraghty

"To get rid of the Democrats and bring back Thaksin, the red shirts need to garner more support, not make more enemies."

~ Voranai Vanijaka/Bangkok Post ~

The bark of the hope tree is sour.
—Lao Stinky

"The United States revealed it will extend 900 million dollars (715 million euros) in aid to the Palestinians, with a third of the money earmarked for war-shattered Gaza."

~ Channelnewsasia ~

Bart: So, according to creationism, there were NO cavemen.

Homer: Good riddance. Their drawings suck and they looked like hippies!

Lisa: Dad, you’re not really reconsidering evolution, are you?

Homer: My mind is always open to new ideas...(sees his plate) ONIONS IN THE PEAS?! WHAT THE HELL?! (throws plate at the wall behind him)


— The Simpsons

"I would have left a little earlier, if I only had a brain"
The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), Wizard of Oz

"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."

~ Neil Cavuto ~

"If we're going to torture, we should torture. If we're going to do it, let's stop farming it out to somebody else."

~ Glenn Beck ~

"The referee tonight is Turkish, that's a new language for Craig Bellamy to argue in."
ITV commentators in the second leg of Man City v Copenhagen.

The White House has its chief of staff playing manipulative games with washed up talking heads, targeting me on the taxpayer dime. This country doesn't need another administration playing dirty tricks and making enemy lists. -- Rush

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them."

~ Rush Limbaugh ~

"The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor...All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies, perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured in some hiding place in Oceania itself." -- 1984 by George Orwell

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
— Oscar Levant

"Hugo Chavez looks at us and says, 'Wow! I can't believe this! This is cool, what's happening to the United States! They're following in my footsteps!'" -- Rush

"When FOX News asked the folks whether it is possible for the USA to go bankrupt, 61 percent believe it is possible. And it is."

~ Bill O'Reilly/Talking Points~

We rub the darkness from our eyes,
And face our thousand devious secret mornings . . .
And do not see how the pale mist, slowly ascending,
Shaped by the sun, shines like a white-robed dreamer
Compassionate over our towers bending.
— Conrad Aiken

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. "
~Thomas Carlyle~

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A war will break out if the US imperialists and the warmongers of the south Korean puppet military hurl the huge troops and sophisticated strike means to mount an attack,"

~ "The KPA Supreme Command ~

"Once the feds control the banking system, they can devise lending practices that speed up the redistribution of wealth."

~ Bill O'Reilly~

"Been paying your mortgage for the last 15 months -- or 15 years? Stupid. Your taxes are going to go to help pay for the guy who can't, or doesn't want to, pay his. Why should you live in a house free of fear of foreclosure if your neighbor down the block can't? By the way, as I understand it, nothing in the housing plan deals with second or third or fourth mortgages which are part and parcel of this mess. People used their house as a piggy bank and mortgage brokers kept refinancing to build the new pool, the playroom, or the home theater because the overall value of the house kept going up. What about leaving the value of your house IN your house? Nah. If you wanted a new car you redid the second on your house, used that money to buy a new Mercedes and you could drop your kids off at school in style. ... Now the repo guys have come for your car and the bank is coming for your house and Obama wants me to give up what I've earned, to pay for something you haven't, but want to keep. This is the world view of the Community Organizer: There are poor people in this neighborhood who have less than they want. There are rich people in the next neighborhood who have more than they need. If you are a Community Organizer you try and even things out. If you are the Community Organizer-in-Chief you get to do this on a national scale and that is exactly what Barack Obama is planning to do. Who is John Galt?" -- political analyst Rich Galen

"A president who in less than three months, changed the Middle East policy dramatically, increases accents in the Cuba policy, pushing a new economic policy and leaves the bio-ethical conservatism , has already taken a pledge, Changes, and not a little bit."

~ Walter Pauli/De Morgen-Belgium ~