Gray Watson's Politics Quote List
Newest to the collection come first.
- The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and
shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. -- Keith Olbermann
commenting on Donald Rumsfeld 8/30/2006
- A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is
doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think
that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church. -- Tina Fey on SNL
10/29/2005
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government -- Edward Abbey
- Of course the people don't want war.... But, after all, it's the
leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a
simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy or a
fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist
dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is
tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack
of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the
same way in any country. -- Hermann Goering, Hilter's 2nd in command,
during his trial at Nuremberg.
- Great collection of freedom quotes by Jim
Poserina.
- Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
- The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give
President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy
wind? -- David Letterman
- "The biggest threat [to privacy] is public complacency" -- John
Gilmore fighting regulations about having to show ID when
flying.
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In protest to France's opposition to
the US war on Iraq, the US Congress cafeteria has changed french fries
and french toast, to freedom fries and freedom toast. Afterwards, the
Congressmen were so pleased with themselves, they all started freedom
kissing each other. In a related story, in France, American cheese is
now referred to as idiot cheese. ...
And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being
patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a
newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries
anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have
you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick
fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams. -- Tina Fey
and Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live 3/15/2003.
- It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more
Americans than terrorists ever do. -- in a cartoon by Terry Mosher
(Aislin), Montreal, Canada about the Congressional cafeteria changing
french fries to freedom fries 3/2003.
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public. Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918
- Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or
the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the
government for a redress of grievances. -- Net filtering software
attacking the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Attributed to
EPIC's Marc Rotenberg.
- We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children
more than hate us. -- Golda Meir on peace between Israel and the
Arabs.
- Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter
Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the
Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore. -- George Carlin
- "Your vote certainly counts. On the other hand, your vote may
not be counted." -- Robert Richie, Center for Voting and Democracy,
commenting on the 2000 Presidential election.
- Companionate Conservatism -- Making the streets safer before
people are kicked out onto them. -- Dennis Miller
- I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once
was... an arctic region covered with ice. -- Steve Martin
- The most valuable function performed by the federal government is
entertainment. -- Dave Berry
- If "con" is the opposite of "pro", does that mean Congress is the
opposite of progress. -- unknown
- POLITICS definition: "poly" = many, "tics" = blood sucking
parasites. -- L. K. Foltz
- This year will go down in history. For the first time, a
civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be
safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead
into the future! -- Adolph Hitler, April 15, 1935
- We're the party that wants to see an America in which people
can still get rich -- Ronald Reagan
- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence. -- C.A. Beard
- He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural
rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its
original German. -- Comic Argus Hamilton on Newt Gingrich addressing
GOP governors
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
denounces him for the same act.... Plainly the sheep and the wolf are
not agreed upon a definition of liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln
- A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and
falsehood of ideas in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its
people. -- John F. Kennedy
- The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we
digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. -- MA
Congressman Edward Markey (May 1993)
- As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In
both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims
of the darkness. -- Justice William O. Douglas
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to
freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by
evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
-- Olmstead v U.S., 277 U.S. 348 (1928), Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
dissenting
- Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government
officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are
commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the
government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law
scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.
For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If
the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law;
it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end
justifies the means...would bring terrible retribution...[and] against
that pernicious doctrine, this court should resolutely set its face.
-- Olmstead v U.S., 277 U.S. 348 (1928), Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
dissenting
- ...when all government... in little as in the great thing, shall
be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render
powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will
become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we
separated. -- Thomas Jefferson (1821)
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