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Post by PhantomWolf on May 21, 2008 18:40:24 GMT -4
Talking about quotes coming back to bite you:
"Before giving a verdict upon this arrangement, we should do well to avoid describing it as a personal or a national triumph for anyone. The real triumph is that it has shown that representatives of four great Powers can find it possible to agree on a way of carrying out a difficult and delicate operation by discussion instead of by force of arms, and thereby they have averted a catastrophe which would have ended civilisation as we have known it. The relief that our escape from this great peril of war has, I think, everywhere been mingled in this country with a profound feeling of sympathy." -- Neville Chamberlain. October 3, 1938
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Post by Ginnie on May 21, 2008 19:17:28 GMT -4
The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine. -- George Washington
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln
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Post by Ginnie on May 21, 2008 19:28:44 GMT -4
From John McCain:
"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." --to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today." --prior to visiting a Baghdad market while being flanked by 22 soldiers, 10 armored Humvees, and two Apache attack helicopters
"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk." --to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?"
"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this ... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole." --to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow Repulican Sen. Pete Domenici, during a Senate budget hearing
From Hillary:
I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." --on visiting Bosnia in 1996, contradicting other accounts that said there was no threat of gunfire. Clinton later said she "misspoke"
Mitt Romney:
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King." (Romney's campaign later admitted that they didn't march on the same day, or in the same city)
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Post by Ginnie on May 21, 2008 19:43:42 GMT -4
Surely one of the biggest gaffes of the century. Peace in our time, oh boy.
"England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally." ---Adolf Hitler 1939
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Post by Kiwi on May 22, 2008 0:07:22 GMT -4
From one of most loathed New Zealand politicians and and prime ministers of all time, Rob Muldoon, regarding migrating Kiwis: "New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries." That should get Peter B, Obviousman and a few others going. Out of the mouths of... My top favourite piece of graffiti in the 80s was ROBERT MULDOON = TROUBLED MORON I immediately agreed with the sentiment, but the equals sign bothered me for a long time until I finally got it. Hint: Count the letters.
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 22, 2008 0:23:30 GMT -4
Didn't old Robby "Piggy" Muldoon once yell at a bunch of protesting teachers across a playgroud to "F off"?
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Post by gillianren on May 22, 2008 1:35:22 GMT -4
When I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson speak at my alma mater a couple of weeks ago, he pointed out this one--"Our God is the God who named the stars," spoken by Bush, of course. Tyson followed this with a list of Arabic star names used worldwide.
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Post by Al Johnston on May 22, 2008 6:15:29 GMT -4
Of course there is always Bill's line: "But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Who was he pointing at at the time? ;D
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 22, 2008 7:25:06 GMT -4
Of course there is always Bill's line: "But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Who was he pointing at at the time? ;D Well if you read the entire quote, which I didn't post, he actually names her directly after that part I did quote.
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Post by Jason on May 22, 2008 11:17:39 GMT -4
From John McCain: "F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." --to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation The really sad part is that he was probably right. The best Bill Clinton quote is this one, explaining to a grand jury how he wasn't actually lying about "that woman": "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."
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Post by Ginnie on May 22, 2008 17:36:12 GMT -4
Oh cheeky cheeky Oh naughty sneaky
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Post by Jason on May 23, 2008 18:33:37 GMT -4
Obama's foreign policy advisor Susan Rice almost did a "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." On criticism for Obama because he said he would meet unconditionally with Iran's president Ahmadinejad, she explained: "Well, first of all, he said he'd meet with the appropriate Iranian leaders. He hasn't named who that leader will be." Actually, Barack has said he would meet with Ahmadinejad specifically. Tom Daschelle tried to do some damage control later too, explaining the definition of "precondition": "It's important to emphasize again when we talk about preconditions, we're just saying everything needs to be on the table. I would not say that we would meet unconditionally." So having "everything on the table" is not the same as "unconditionally" in Democrat-speak.
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Post by Jason on May 28, 2008 12:04:10 GMT -4
Sen. Obama: "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
Obama sees many of our fallen heroes in the audience? Move over, Haley Joel Osment.
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Post by Jason on May 29, 2008 11:48:33 GMT -4
Sen. Obama, also on Memorial Day: "I had an uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
In fact Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians.
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Post by Jason on May 29, 2008 12:01:37 GMT -4
Congressman Paul Kanjorski, D-Pennsylvania, speaking of the 2006 election at a 2007 Town Hall meeting in Pennsylvania: "I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election -- when I say we, the Democrats -- I think pushed it as far as we can, the envelope. We didn't say it, but we implied it, if we won the congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody who is a good student of government would know that wasn't true. But you know the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts, and people ate it up."
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