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With the year drawing rapidly to a close and so many quotes to chose among - serious and humorous, conservative and liberal, rabid media outbursts, Obama's choicest lies, the liberal chameleon Mitt Romney - what are your personal quote(s) of the year for 2011?The quote may be comforting or disturbing, enlightening or confusing, endearing or maddening . . . but, c'mon, you know you have one.

50) Get the hell off the Beach in Asbury Park and get out. You’re done. It’s 4:30 PM. You’ve maximized your tan. Get off the beach. Get in you cars and get out of those areas. — Chris Christie 49) NPR is a very elitist and in this case white institution that I think is struggling with the changing demographics of American society. And it struggles with the idea that there are capable thinkers and journalist and people who don’t fit into some box. — Juan Williams on NPR 48) Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator,...

Ooops, sorry- that was 2008... silly me: "Beloved friend Newt Gingrich": "...made an indelible mark that literally changed the course of the United States" "...leading conservative member of the United States congress from the state of Georgia" "Founded the Conservative Opportunity Society, which I frequent every week. This is the incubator, if you will, of new great conservative ideas, and Newt kicked that off for us." "... he's going to continue to school all of us here in the morning." "...he was the architect of the revolution that wrested control of the House of Representatives from 40 years of...

'I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.' - Winston Churchill 'Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.' - P.J. O'Rourke 'Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.' - Douglas Casey  (classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University) 'There is no distinctly Native American criminal class... save Congress.' - Mark Twain 'The ultimate result of shielding...

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy  than to fumble this football"  - John Heisman Fighting Irish GameDay "When you win, nothing hurts."  -Joe Namath @ Alabama "It isn't necessary to see a good tackle-  you can hear it." -Knute Rockne @ Notre Dame "My advice to defensive players: Take the  shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."   -Bowden Wyatt  @ Tennessee "Motivation is simple. You eliminate  those who are not motivated." -Lou Holtz  @ Arkansas "If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold,  you gotta know the password: "Roll, Tide, roll!" -Bear Bryant ...

I saw a quote on Facebook and I was surprised that the person in question said this. Let's see if my fellow FReepers can guess who said the following... "Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things, but their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done nothing during the financial crisis and he even started laying the groundwork for a third round of quantitative easing.  Unfortunately, 60 Minutes did not ask Bernanke any hard questions and did not challenge him on his past record.  It was almost as if they considered Bernanke to be above criticism.  But someone in the mainstream...

More timeless, lib-poking wit from the Gipper: You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans... Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways. The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant... but that they know so much that simply isn't so A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at...

Paraprosdokian (noun): Figure of speech in which the  latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected  ...frequently used in a humorous situation. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening... but this wasn't it." —Groucho Marx "If I could say a few words... I'd be a better public speaker." —Homer Simpson "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else." —Winston Churchill "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." — Dorothy Parker "(He's) a modest man... who has much to...

The Chicago Fire Department must hire 111 bypassed black firefighter candidates — and distribute “tens of millions of dollars” in damages to 6,000 others who will never get that chance — a federal appeals court ruled Friday, upholding a landmark ruling. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 9-to-0 decision, that, contrary to the city’s contention, African-American candidates hadn’t waited too long before filing a lawsuit that accused the city of discriminating against them for the way it handled a 1995 firefighter’s entrance exam. On Friday, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling and sent...

Current state of affairs - brought to measure by the forebodings of yester-year and the pillars of our Great Nation regarding... I. THE WITHOLDING OF INFORMATION: "Information is the currency of democracy." "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." II. THE ENCROACHMENT OF GOVERNMENT: "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." III. OUR...

Have you told your mother how much you love her and appreciate all she's done for you? Please do so while you still can. A Newborn's Conversation with God A baby asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?” God said, “Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you.” The child further inquired, “But tell me, here in heaven I don’t have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy.” God said, “Your angel will sing...

With Donald Trump topping the latest  CNN/OpEdRe Poll, a few choice quotes... _________________________________________________________________________________ "I hate what's happening to the country" "The US border with Mexico is a joke... it should be militarized so that no illegal immigrants can come in. Moreover, doing so would stop the burgeoning US-Mexico trade in illegal drugs" "(Pakistan) knows where Bin Laden is... cut off all aid until they hand him over" "I am opposed to gay marriage... causes me trouble in New York, but I just don't feel right about it". "Well, there is a Muslim problem... all you have to do is turn on your TV... Unfortunately, at this point...

I caught Dennis Miller on the O’Reilly Matter a couple nights back and Miller made a noteworthy dissertation regarding the disreputable tactics of Nancy Pelosi. He referred to Pelosi telling the nation that seniors are going to be meeting premature deaths due to Paul Ryan’s Budget proposal. I really have to take issue with Miller’s rant but before I do, take a minute to view it so we’re on the same page... (continued after video)

Just saw a clip from the new ATLAS SHRUGGED movie and thought it would be fun to hear everyone's favorite line from the book if you've read it. There are so many to pick from but I think mine is when Francisco has just deliberately caused the crash of D'anconia Copper's stock and he says to James Taggert: "money is the root of all evil, so I just got tired of being evil". Love it!

Whoops! Us Weekly ran a story quoting Sarah Palin demanding that Christina Aguilera be “deported” over her botched performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV. The only problem: It never happened. The item “quoted” Palin trashing Aguilera as “a demanding beauty queen who’s clearly in over her head” and adding for good measure, “If I were president, I’d deport Ms. Augilera back to wherever it is she’s from and give Amy Smart a call.” The fake quotes originated from an Onion-like satirical web site, relaying a fictional radio interview between the former Governor of Alaska and Fox News...

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."  "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time...

  Send us your favorite St. Paul quote The Catholic Answer magazine asked well-known Catholics from around the country, "What is your favorite St. Paul quote"? You'll find them below.-snip   From The Catholic Answer What’s Your Favorite Passage from St. Paul?The apostle Paul composed more books of Scripture than any other biblical author. So the ongoing Year of St. Paul (June 28, 2008-June 29, 2009), which focuses on his life and work, has a happy convergence in the coming weeks with the upcoming world Synod of Bishops (Oct. 5-26), whose theme this year is “The Word of God...

The quote "The First Casualty of War is Truth" has been attributed to the Greek Tragic Dramatist. We are now facing this very concept in the Giffords shooting. Almost all initial reaction to this event are outright lies as to motive and attribution to cause. However, by the time the truth is discovered, lies and falsehood will have done their damage. Democrats will strive to make sure everyone who disagree with their Godless philosophy is pictured as having potential to violence. You might all keep in mind this quote, which is very true: There are no warlike people--just warlike leaders.~Ralph...

Best Notable Quotables of 2010: Demanding Respect for Obama While Still Bashing Bush By Rich Noyes | December 24, 2010 | 11:30 Rich Noyes's picture Even as the public grew increasingly disenchanted with Washington's full-throated liberal policies in 2010, the media elite's partisanship remained on full display. The Media Research Center's Best Notable Quotables of 2010 captured the highlights, as journalists continued to blame America's misfortunes on George W. Bush, even as they also insisted that Barack Obama deserved more credit for his amazing accomplishments. In the MRC's "They Don't Miss Him Yet Award for Still Bashing Bush," Time's Joe...

1. Sheryl Crow on Environmentalism: "I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.'" 2. Joe Biden on culturalism: "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a...

Friends, take a moment to brush-up on some apposite quotes from Comrade Vladimir Illytch Lenin- advisable considering our smiley-face-commie of a president can likely recite them all standing on his head. This should sound plenty familiar to contemporary American political observers... the ones with their eyes open, anyway: ________________________________________________________ Disarmament is the ideal of socialism Pacifism -the preaching of peace in the abstract- is one of the means of duping the working class International unity of the workers is more important than the national. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and...

Movies and catchphrases go together like popcorn and microwaves. However also like popcorn, some of these catchphrases can get a little burnt and a lotta stale. There are, of course, certain movie catchphrases that have stood the test of time and will continue to do so. "Here's lookin' at you kid" from "Casablanca" and "We're not in Kansas anymore" from "The Wizard of Oz" are just a couple of examples of movie catchphrases that will never grow old. Even some more modern zingers like "You can't handle the truth" from "A Few Good Men" and "Expelliarmus!" from the "Harry Potter"...

Some Will Rogers quotes seem appropriate about now: "Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off." It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. (Think about that one.) Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. "If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to...

Liberals: During Wednesday interview with Channel 2 News and confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion." He then added: "Ironically, I've got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate." "This [Stimulus Bill] legislation was designed to cushion the downturn," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs....

'New World Order' Quotes of Note Hi Here is some interesting and very important info on the term "The New World Order."  I just copied this info from books and pamphlets and news articles already published, so this is nothing original except that it is a list of New World Order quotes listed chronologically.  I think it has a good impact shown this way.  I have also shown the source for verification. -- AJ     When Pres Bush (Sr) started using the term during his administration, one was led to believe that he or his advisor made up the term....

Anecdotes and snippets from the Americans for Prosperity "Defending the American Dream Summit" in Michigan on Saturday. Detroit News editor: Granholm is worst-ever Michigan governor Nolan Finley, the Detroit News editorial page editor, called Jennifer Granholm "the worst governor in Michigan history." Finley said Granholm "has fiddled while our state is burning to the ground." Taxpayers not at the table, but "on the menu" Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told a crowd that instead of introducing the cap-and-trade bill and sending it to committee, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid will take over the drafting of the bill by meeting...

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." -Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess "You...

If you call that a ‘redistribution of income’ — well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair. -- Joe Biden

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

Look, the people who are opposing this are holding tea parties. The Democrats are holding a Kool-Aid party. This is political Jonestown. -- Pat Caddell See the link for more....

In the long history of the World, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility- I welcome it!

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. WINSTON CHURCHILL My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore) Its been awhile but now Here are some new quotes from random individuals. Here I stand with 1000 bayonets, and there you stand with your laws. we shall see who prevails. Adolf Hitler Whatever the price...

Every Rebel guerrilla and jayhawker, every man who ran to Canada to avoid the draft, every bounty-hunter, every deserter, every cowardly sneak that ran from danger and disgraced his flag, every man who loves slavery and hates liberty. . .and every villain, of whatever name or crime, who loves power more than justice, slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat (and an endorser of Andrew Johnson). James A. Garfield, 1866

This is the first of a new trend I plan to start on My blog. TO post famous quotes. What inspired me was this quote from Winston Churchill. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. WINSTON CHURCHILL My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore)Indeed, there is a lot we can learn from...

Ronald Reagan changed everything for me. He transformed a country stricken with "malaise" and "stagflation" and made us proud to be Americans again. He resurrected our prosperity by allowing people to keep more of their earnings and decreased the choke hold of government interference in our lives. He won the Cold War and defeated Communism, as Margaret Thatcher said, "without firing a shot".

(CNSNews.com) - In the history of the United States, Congress has never forced individual Americans to buy any good or service. That would change if the health care bills approved by either the House or Senate ever became law. Each would require individuals to buy a health insurance plan approved by the government. Since Congress started debating these bills, CNSNews.com has been asking members of Congress: Where does the Constitution authorize Congress to force individuals to buy health insurance? The legislators have given a variety of answers. Some could give no answer at all. The video embedded here puts their...

With a failing economy, a misguided stimulus, two wars, continuing terror threats, staggering unemployment, record foreclosures, and a general malaise in public confidence, President Obama chose in his first year to ignore these problems and place all of his political capital in an effort to orchestrate a massive government take over of healthcare. Here is an ensemble of a year’s worth of healthcare quotes.

    The fun in the race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brownn ramped up when Coakley provided voters her shrewd take on the terrorists in Afghanistan during her final debate with Brown: "They're gone. They're not there anymore." In search of money to shore up her campaign after the debate, Coakley jetted down to Washington for a closed-door dinner with health care lobbyists at the Capitol Hill restaurant Sonoma. After the event concluded, Coakley took two questions from the media but declined to say whether or not she stands by her statement at last night's debate that...

40) But it is really not easy to make fun of the Obamas, because they’re really — they’re kind of really perfect, aren’t they?" -- Joy Behar

The Media Research Center has announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting granting Discover magazine’s Melissa Lafsky the dis-honor of “Quote of the Year.” On August 27, a few days after Senator Edward Kennedy’s death, Lafsky posted the following on the Huffington Post blog...

Winning Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting By: Brent Baker December 28, 2009 02:10 ET   The winning quotes in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The Twenty-Second Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last Monday, the awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 21, but following tradition, today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday -- the last weekdays of the year -- MRC.org's BiasAlert and corresponding CyberAlert e-mail newsletter will run the winning quotes followed on succeeding days by the runners-up. The page...

<p>They gushed like lovestruck schoolgirls over an unaccomplished, incompetent, and immature new president.</p> <p>They downplayed said president’s motley crew of tax-cheating White House appointments and communism-endorsing czars.</p> <p>They perpetuated said president’s flawed conception of the United States as—that is, until he fixes it—an arrogant, racist, imperialist, wealth-stealing, pollution-spewing, Islam-oppressing, terrorist-torturing, saber-rattling threat to world security.</p>

Some beautiful illustrations by the graphic designer based in the Drome. Stephane Massa Bidal aka retro, devised a work based on the “remix” of archival footage with current topics. Many examples in the sequel.

*SNIP* Here's the list: 1. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare." Speaker at health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., commenting on the government-created Medicare program, quoted by The Washington Post on July 28. 2. "We're going to be in the Hudson." Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, responding to air traffic controllers asking on which runway he preferred to land US Airways Flight 1549 on Jan. 15 before he landed in the Hudson River. 3. "There's an app for that." Apple's advertising slogan for the iPhone. 4. "You lie!" Wilson's shouted retort to Obama's address before a joint...

"For the first time—in the last relatively free election Germany was to have—the Nazi Party now could employ all the vast resources of the government to win votes. Goebbels was jubilant. "Now it will be easy," he wrote in his diary on February 3, "to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money."

Directions Every year a panel of leading conservative media observers and experts picks the most-biased media quotes for the Media Research Center's annual awards for the year's "worst reporting." And these judges have done so again this year to decide the 2009 award "winners" with the choices to be announced on Monday, December 21, but... Now you too can participate via this separately compiled Web ballot! Watch or read the quotes and let us know which ones you think are the worst. For each of the 16 categories, pick one quote – the one you think is the most outrageous...

NEW HAVEN — Reinhold Niebuhr, the famed Protestant theologian, will be credited with writing the Serenity Prayer in the next edition of the Yale Book of Quotations. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference,” is the prayer that is ubiquitous with Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses it as part of its 12-step recovery program. Fred Shapiro, an associate librarian and lecturer at Yale Law School and editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, last year questioned the authorship of the prayer, based on...

Below are direct quotes from either from the Democrat Party or from the Communist Party USA. The challenge is to read each comment, categorized by topic, then decide if the quote came from the Democrats or the Communists...