The Goodwill Games ended the Cold War.
“I was trying to bring the Cold War . . . to an end with the Goodwill Games and a bunch of our initiatives that we worked on with the Russians and it worked.”
- Ted Turner , September 2006.
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Hoping for U.S. defeat in Iraq.
“We as Americans have to hope America will lose [the war in Iraq). If we win, we have to expect more wars, more destruction.”
- Michael Schwartz
We’ll use Vietnam to prove our strength.
“Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.”
- John F. Kennedy
Doubting the end of the Cold War.
“I don’t know any American Soviet scholar who believes that the United States ended the Cold War.”
- Frances Fitzgerald
Don’t react with violence to violence.
“[W]hy is it that our immediate response to violence is to use violence ourselves — thus reinforcing the cycle of violence in the world?”
- Michael Lerner
Kind words for President Bush.
“I now know President Bush is sincere about wanting to help the Iraqis. I know he’s sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he’s a man of faith.â€
- Cindy Sheehan , June 2004.
The Bush daughters should be in the military.
“If he [George Bush] thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go [to] this war.”
- Cindy Sheehan , April 27, 2005.
We’re not fighting for freedom and democracy.
“And I’m gonna say, ‘And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.’ And if he [President Bush] even starts to say ‘freedom and democracy’ I’m gonna say, bull****.â€
- Cindy Sheehan , August 8, 2005.
I should have refused a military funeral for my son.
“If I was thinking straight, which I wasn’t, I never would have allowed a military funeral, and I wouldn’t have buried him [her son] in his uniform. I just basically stayed sitting on my couch, crying and drinking for a week.”
- Cindy Sheehan
I’m not paying taxes.
“My son [Casey] was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny…you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes.”
- Cindy Sheehan