Political Football

“You know, education–if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

- John Kerry (we know this was a “botched joke” but… you know he’s the current Chairman of the Small Business committee, US Senate) Don’t you wonder why such an esteemed gentleman gets such a low level committee assignment? it gets better, read on…

“If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career, or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. . . . If there’s anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment.” 

- Charles Rangel, Current Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, US House of Representatives – quite possibly the most powerful person in the Legislative Branch due to his committee assignment)

For the past 20 years I have been telling people the following: “I attended a New England prep school (Loomis Chaffee) and an Ivy League College (Cornell). Since I joined the Marine Corps, I have associated with a better class of person.”

- Lt. Col. David Dawson

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. 

– Harry S Truman

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. 

– Ronald Reagan

Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: we win; they lose. 

– Ronald Reagan

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything. 

– Margaret Thatcher

Hope is no basis for a defence policy. 

– Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~”Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

- Lillian Carter

Where we all think alike, no one thinks much. 

– Walter Lippmann

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

- P.J. O’Rourke

(During the Cold War), only five guys had their fingers on the nuclear button – Britain, America, France, China and the Soviet Union – but because two of those fingers belonged to Ron and Maggie the Left was convinced the apocalypse was just around the corner. Now we’re at the dawn of the freelance nuke era, and the Left is positively insouciant about it. 

- Mark Steyn

There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think.

– Christopher Hitchens

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