Posted on 10/19/2009 6:42:23 AM PDT by RolandTignor
Great Orators of the Democrat Party...
'One man with courage makes a majority.' - Andrew Jackson
'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt
'The buck stops here.' - Harry S. Truman
'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for yourcountry.' - John F. Kennedy
And from today's Democrats...
"It depends what your definition of 'Sex' is?" - Bill Clinton
"Those rumors are false .... I believe in the sanctity of marriage." - John Edwards
"I invented the Internet." - Al Gore
"The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS." - Joe Biden
"America is--is no longer, uh, what it--it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was...uh, and I say to 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children." - Barack Obama
"I have campaigned in all 57 states." - Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)
"You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)
"Paying taxes is voluntary." - Sen. Harry Reid
"Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he." - Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)
HOW LUCKY CAN WE BE TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF OUR IMPERILED COUNTRY?
"Life's tough ........ It's even tougher if you're stupid." -- John Wayne
“Great Orators of the Democrat Party”
I thought you were going to do one of those “shortest books in the world” jokes.
Your examples are first rate, though. Howard Dean’s scream rates a mention, I’d say.
JFK was the last real Democrat and he was killed for it.
they got the Clinton quote wrong...he actually said ..”it depends on what the definition of is...is”.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ - John F. Kennedy
I was never comfortable with this quote and I’ll let Mr Friedman explain why.
“The paternalistic “what your country can do for you” implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man’s belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, “what you can do for your ‘country” implies the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
He will ask rather “What can I and my compatriots do through government” to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? “
-—Milton Friedman.
That's grand. But nowadays it's "Ask not what your country can do for you; DEMAND IT."
A lot of those quotes were not quite right, which puts all of them into question.
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