Quotes

"The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."
-- Rep. Tom Davis III (R-VA).
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/16/ec.01.html

 

"There is one law that not even a king can escape: the law of retribution."
-- From the 1939 film of Alexandre Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask."

 

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
-- Mark Twain

 

"I think -- I'll have my staff get [back] to you."
-- John McCain to a reporter when asked how many homes he owned, as quoted by Politico.com. (Reportedly, the McCain's have at least seven or as many as ten luxurious homes -- or more.) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12685.html
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/95916/poor_little_rich_man%3A_mccain_can%27t_remember_how_many_mansions_he_has/

 

"When John Edwards was running for president, and the media were obsessing about his wealth, they linked his fortune to his policy positions. Surely John McCain -- who can't remember how many houses he owns, 'jokes' that you aren't rich unless you make $5 million a year, and supports tax policies that would save him and his wife, Cindy, nearly $400,000 a year -- should be held to the same standard?"
-- Jamison Foser, Media Matters, Aug. 22, 2008.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808220017

 

"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."
-- Suzanne Necker

 

"I have spent much of my life choosing my own attitude, often carelessly, often for no better reason than to indulge a conceit."
-- John McCain, from his book "Faith of My Fathers."

 

"I wish I was as certain about anything, as he is about everything."
-- Author Unknown

 

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
-- William Arthur Ward

 

"I'm as healthy as the economy."
-- John McCain, April 6, 2008.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathaniel-bach/john-mccain-goes-for-a-ph_b_95351.html

 

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
-- Hannah Green

 

"I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."
-- John McCain, from a primary debate in October 2007.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/mccain-last-year-mayors-a_n_125944.html

 

"But, Charlie, again, we've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more politics as usual, and somebody's big fat resume that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment ..."
-- Sarah Palin, in an interview with ABC's Charles Gibson, apparently talking about her running mate, John McCain.
http://www.commondreams.org/print/32302

 

"Truly, Palin is that most dangerous of self-aggrandizing right-wing politico, a potentially very powerful woman full of moxie and nerve and intensely intolerant, extremist views who actually hates women. Really, you can't get much more Republican than that."
-- Mark Morford, "Evil: It's the New Good!" San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 10, 2008.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/10/notes091008.DTL

 

"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."
-- Edith Sitwell

 

"Give the old feller credit, though. He found a high-profile Alaskan Republican who doesn't have a standing weekly appointment with the FBI."
-- Charles Pierce, Altercation, Aug. 29, 2008.
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200808290011#2

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag."
-- Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaska Independence Party. Sarah Palin's husband Todd was a card-carrying member from 1995 to 2002, and Sarah herself addressed AIP conventions in 2006 and 2008. AIP is an extremist group that calls for Alaska to secede from the United States. http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/303695

 

"There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is 'a task from God.' The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme."
-- Joe Klein, "Angry Amateur, Time.com, Sept. 3, 2008. http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/angry_amateurs.html

 

"[The media will talk about] whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive."
-- Joe Scarborough, MSNBC's Morning Joe, Sept. 10, 2008.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100018

 

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-- Mark Twain

 

"Democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs."
-- Sheldon Wolin, from his book, "Democracy Incorporated."
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/print/20080515_chalmers_johnson_on_our_managed_democracy

 

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."
-- Homer

 

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-- Jonathan Swift

 

"You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private."
-- Sam Harris

 

"I've got news for you, John McCain: We all put our country first."
-- Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention, 2008.

 

"Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
-- Criswell, "Plan Nine From Outer Space" (1959).

 

"Question authority before the authorities question you."
-- Bumper sticker

 

"Do not adjust your mind, it is reality that is malfunctioning."
-- Robert Anton Wilson