Posted on 09/19/2001 11:12:06 AM PDT by VaBthang4
Just a few that I have seen so far this morning...
I figured maybe we can keep a running thread.
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," said Bill Maher, the host of Politically Incorrect. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
"The CIA had put in place a directive saying that if unsavory characters -- that is, people that have abused human rights themselves, for example, were going to be used as sources and paid -- that there had to be approval above the field level," -Bill Clinton
“The government is attempting to curb civil liberties and to create a climate in which it is impossible for progressive people to speak their mind. The Bush administration is attempting to take advantage of this crisis to militarize U.S. society with a vast expansion of police powers that is intended to severely restrict basic democratic rights." –Beat back Bush
“I mean, George W. Bush didn't make fighting terrorism a big part of his campaign at all," the anchorman complained. "You know, they were talking about reorganizing the U.S. military but we haven't heard anything about -- "We've got to secure this country against a terrorist attack.” –Tom Brokaw
Are you saying there's a difference?
Bill Maher isn't a libertarian. He doesn't even know what one is. His claim gives a bad name to the real ones
"I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years." - President Lyndon B. Johnson, Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." --Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968
"In oil, the United States is clearly approaching depletion. At today's rate of consumption -- not tomorrow's -- the United States has proved reserves of oil sufficient to meet the nation's needs for thirteen years." --Vance Packard, The Waste Makers, 1960
"I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists." --Jane "Hanoi" Fonda, Michigan State University, 1970
"I would be happy to give him [Clinton] a blow job [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs." --Time contributor and former reporter Nina Burleigh recalling what she told the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz about her feeling toward Bill Clinton, as recounted by Burleigh in the July 20, 1998 New York Observer
"The days of the dole in our country are numbered." --Lyndon B. Johnson
"It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable." (Paul Samuelson, Professor of Economics, MIT, Nobel Laureate, Economics, 1981)
"The Soviet Union is not now, nor will it be during the next decade, in the throes of a true systematic crisis, for it boasts enormous unused reserves of political and social stability that suffice to endure the deepest difficulties." (Seweryn Bialer, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, Foreign Affairs Magazine, 1982/3)
"That the Soviet system has made great material progress in recent years is evident both from the statistics and from the general urban scene...One sees it in the appearance of well-being of the people on the streets...and the general aspect of restaurants, theaters, and shops... Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast with the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower." (John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1984)
"Slashing close to $60 billion in low-income assistance is not reform, colleagues. It is punitive, it is harsh, and it is extreme ... The evidence is irrefutable and irreducible: This legislation, once enacted into law, will create more poverty and hunger among children in America. ...Now we are turning the clock back...How did it get to be reform to slash nutrition programs that are so important in making sure that children have an adequate diet? ... You dare to say that, in the name of children, when you are passing a piece of legislation that every single study says will increase poverty and hunger among children. It is ... punitive , it is harsh, it is extreme. It targets the most vulnerable citizens in America--poor children." --Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN, 104th Congress, Congressional Record, page S9333).
Oh, it isn't how they did it that makes them cowards. It is who their victims are and that they targetted only civilians in New York City that makes them cowards.
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