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“We’re going to take over all the political institutions of California. California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. If they [whites] don’t like Mexicans, they ought to go back to Europe.”
- Mario Obledo , June 17, 1998.
“My America is called Europe. It is my place of dreams. . . . Today the United States isn’t a solution, it’s a danger! . . . Most of the things I like are in Europe. . . I hope Europe will show us a road to follow.”
- Susan Sontag , December 2002.
“Everyone in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”
- David Geffen , February 21, 2007.
“The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world. The credible threat to use force, and when necessary the actual use of force, is the surest way to contain Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction program (and) curtail his aggression.”
- Bill Clinton , 1998.
“Catholicism is a very masochistic religion . . . there are some very beautiful rituals in Catholicism, but there is a certain darkness within it. It’s not a very loving religion. It’s not very flexible. It doesn’t make room for human error.”
- Madonna
“[O]ur cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. . . [N]o immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge. . . [Mass immigration] will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
- Ted Kennedy
“Last week, a reporter called to ask me if I had really said that earth worms are more important than people. I answered that, yes, I had. He then asked how I could justify such a statement. ‘Simple,’ I answered. ‘Earthworms can live on the planet without people. We cannot live on the planet without earthworms, thus from an ecological point of view, earthworms are more important than people.’ ”
- Paul Watson
“Not very much, no. I don’t. I mean, as long as there are people who think that this [i.e. religion] is the only way, you’re going to have wars, and killing, and death. . . . [Y]ou really fix an institution when it is religion. Because when you say religion, immediately you can get away with anything.”
- Bill Maher
“Yes, [it’s okay to kill a disabled baby] if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole. Many people find this shocking, yet they support a woman’s right to have an abortion.”
- Peter Singer
“[T]o me, the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. We will have regional conflicts and use or force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.”
- Hans Blix
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