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If you vote for Bush, you have lost your mind

John Edwards — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:20 +0000

“I’d say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you have lost your mind.”

Just tax the heck out of people

Barack Obama — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:37:19 +0000

“Warren [will] tell you his preference is… let the market work… and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it. That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.”

Unconstitutional?

Tonya Payne — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:20:40 +0000

“Who really cares about it being unconstitutional?”

I’m not a Liberal, I’m “Correct”

Keith Olbermann — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:48:07 +0000

“I’ve been accused of being a liberal, which is interesting because the last time I was on doing the news in the late ’90’s, I did 218 consecutive shows about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, and no one accused me of being a liberal then. It’s very interesting to way you can be sort of pigeonholed. I like to think of myself politically as ‘correct’…I don’t have a rooting interest other than in what happens to the country.”

The 1994 â€œdealâ€ with North Korea’s Kim Il-sung in 1994 was a complete success.

Jimmy Carter — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:22:39 +0000

“What the North Koreans were waiting for was some treatment of their exalted leader with respect and a direct communication. [. . .] I outlined the specific points [concerning blocking North Korean development of nuclear weapons] and with very little equivocation, he agreed. I think it’s all roses now. [. . .] In my opinion, this was one of those perfect agreements where both sides won and got what they wanted and [where] nobody blinked, nobody had to yield.”

I’m a global citizen; the world’s ills are my fault.

Ted Turner — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:20:10 +0000

“I’m a global citizen. Slavery: my fault. Inequality: my fault. Global environmental degradation: my fault. Population explosion: my fault. But I think I can do something about all of it . . .”

Men have ruined everything; let women rule.

Ted Turner — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:18:13 +0000

“The men have had millions of years where we’ve been running things. We’ve screwed it up hopelessly. Let’s give it to the women. [Men should be banned from public office] for 100 years in every part of the world.”

Brits are smarter than Americans.

Gwyneth Paltrow — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:16:17 +0000

â€œBrits are far more intelligent and civilized than Americans.â€

America is too capitalistic.

Gwyneth Paltrow — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:13:44 +0000

“I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America.”

Children should not think for themselves.

John Dewey — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:28:26 +0000

“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists — children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”