"Again, America is a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention."
-- Bill Maher
"Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?"
-- Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 September 2001
"Now African Americans are supposed to fight and die for a racist corrupt government in yet another imperialist war, when it is the U.S. which has clearly brought on this attack. We are supposed to fight for a country where we still have limited social, economic and political rights, and where we are still subject to death by any racist cop or citizen, where there is widespread poverty, mass imprisonment of the youth, and massive unemployment concentrated in the Black community. The obvious question is what the hell are we fighting for? To avenge America? To mourn America? Why, we don't owe this country anything."
-- Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, CounterPunch
"When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
-- Robert Altman, Hollywood Director
"My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war."
-- Katha Pollitt, The Nation, 08 October 2002
"While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us."
-- Al Sharpton at the "State of the Black World Conference" in Atlanta, GA
"I think the U.S. is terrifying and it saddens me. You only have to look at the state of affairs in America. I do worry about my children. As a parent you are always concerned...I just want them to be in a place where they are going to be strong enough to be able to make the right choices. Unfortunately we're in a position where people are so irresponsible that human life holds so little value to them."
-- Tom Cruise explains why he wants his kids to be raised in Australia instead of America
"Just one last thing. We are always looking for signs that the country is behaving like its old self again. Tonight at the World Series, if the Yankee fans boo the President, it won't mean necessarily they are unhappy with his leadership, but he did say that he would cheer for anyone but the Yankees in the series. So if New York fans give him the business it just means they're acting like their old selves. And that's probably a good sign."
-- Peter Jennings on the World Series in 2001
"We keep begging white people for freedom. No wonder we're not free. Your enemy can not make you free fool. You want freedom you're going to have to kill some crackers. You're going to have to kill some of they babies."
-- King Samir Shabazz on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia, PA
"The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth - social and environmental."
-- Ingrid Newkirk, former President of PETA
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
-- David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
"The ALF does not meet the legal requirements to be considered a gang. Their primary goal is to save animals, not commit crimes."
-- Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge David S. Wesley, 26 January 2009
"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
-- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights
"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press... This freedom is all too often an exaggeration... At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies."
-- Mark Lloyd, Chief Diversity Officer, from his 2006 book "Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America"
"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."
-- Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models."
-- Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research commenting on the fact that scientific data disproves Man Made Global Warming theories
"The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful."
-- Dr. David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University
"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
-- Al Gore, Climate Change activist
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
-- Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
-- Emeritus Professor Daniel Botkin
"If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that [escalating healthcare costs]."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in a speech given on 13 May 2009 setting the stage for Socialized Medicine
"If you like your health care you can keep it."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of the year the legislation becomes law."
-- From the 1,018-page "Health Care for all Americans" bill, page 16 is the provision making individual private medical insurance illegal, July 2009.
"I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States
"...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way."
-- Anthony "Van" Jones, President Barack Obama's "Green Jobs Czar", 22 January 2009
"I have no issue with property destruction. I think sometimes it's appropriate, sometimes it's not. Again, I look at it strategically. Does this help us or does it hurt us? Does it help us achieve our goal, or does it not? We're in a society where property is idolized, so a lot of people don't get it yet that it doesn't really matter. It's just glass or products."
-- Lisa Fithian
"I want Barack Obama to be president…in 2016. Barack Obama does not have the support network yet to get to be president. The Clintons have — he's — he's smart, he's brilliant. But you cannot be president alone. Hillary Clinton, first of all, has Bill behind her, and Bill is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack."
-- Andrew Young, Former UN Ambassador, Former Mayor of Atlanta, Civil Rights leader, and booster emeritus for the Bill & Hillary '08 campaign, 10 December 2007
"I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years and I think we need some regulation now."
-- Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman in an interview on CNBC show "Power Lunch", 07 May 2009
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
-- Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
-- Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the US Supreme Court
"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."
-- Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the US Supreme Court
"Making roads and roofs a paler colour could have the equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years."
-- Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary, speaking at a symposium on climate change hosted by the Prince of Wales, 26 May 2009
"Hunting accidents are a beautiful manifestation of karma. Nearly every US citizen in the animal liberation movement has the same 2nd Amendment right to bear arms as hunters and probably loves the outdoors as much (if not more than) those who hunt. Wouldn't it be unfortunate if there were a sudden epidemic of hunting accidents?"
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner, 25 July 2009
"Destruction of property, equipment, buildings, machinery, laboratories, and virtually any inanimate human construct or "resource" used in the exploitation, oppression, maiming, raping, or murder of human animals, other animals, or the Earth is not violence. It may be illegal under a system that fetishizes property and profits, but it is not unethical. In fact, in many cases it is the right thing to do."
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner
"...the animal liberation movement needs to embrace ‘counter-violence to protect innocent beings' as one of many tactics in the war to end the animal holocaust. Attacks on incorrigible, empathy-deficient, sociopathic speciesist animal torturers and murderers by courageous underground militants are both necessary and morally acceptable aspects of the fight to liberate nonhuman animals. From an ethical standpoint, such acts would be readily justifiable as a form of extensional self-defense on behalf of voiceless, defenseless sentient beings."
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner
"As ridiculously out-numbered as we are, and in light of the overwhelming power of our enemy, we need to confront this multi-headed hydra with as many tactics of asymmetrical engagement and with as much determination as we can muster, battling them within the framework of the inherently corrupt political and legal systems that are heavily stacked in the favor of anthropocentric murderers... and undertaking various forms of direct action on behalf of the billions of nonhuman animals immiserated and annihilated by speciesist capitalism every year."
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner
"It is the plumbing of that capitalist system that we are using as we flush the future of life on Earth down the toilet."
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner
"As my close colleague, Dr. Jerry Vlasak, surmised - and I back him 100% on this - the assassination of a vivisector or two would probably save millions of nonhuman animal lives. And given the escalating situation at UCLA, who knows what may happen?"
-- Jason Miller, relentless anti-capitalist, animal liberationist, and senior editor and founder of Thomas Paine's Corner and a Press Officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAAPO)
"When you least expect it, in a hallway or on an elevator, in the stairwell or going to your car after torturing primates all day, you'll get a much bigger puncture from a 10cc syringe right in your back filled with rat poison, and we'll be gone so fast you'll never know who did it. We know where you go during the day, we know where you do your dry cleaning, we know where you shop and we know that you will end up being cornered and taught a lesson you and your family will never forget. Until you end your experimentation on primates, we'll be in your life forever watching, waiting and then doing to you exactly what you do to them."
-- An Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Communiqué threatening UCLA researchers as reported by Jerry Vlasak's North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAAPO) website on 26 March 2009
"Them Jews ain't going to let him [President Obama] talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office... Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing by the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel."
-- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former Pastor of Trinity United Church speaking to Virginia's Daily Press, 11 June 2009
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
-- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in a 2003 sermon
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
-- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in a sermon after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
-- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in a sermon after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
"For those who are in that second category, who can be released, there are a variety of options that we have. Among them is the possibility that we could release them into this country."
-- Eric Holder, US Attorney General under President Barack Obama, 18 March 2009
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."
-- Eric Holder, US Attorney General under President Barack Obama, 18 February 2009
"Guess what this Liberal will be all about? This liberal will be all about socializing... uh... uh... will be about... basically taking over... and the government running all of your companies."
-- Maxine Waters (Dem) Representative of the 35th Congressional District of California during House hearings questioning Oil Executives from Shell Oil Company, 23 May 2008
"And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration and former Governor of Arizona, during an interview on CNN with John King
"Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration and former Governor of Arizona speaking about the 9-11 terrorists and other Islamic terrorists in the United States
"I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security
"The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security
"Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security
"If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security
"Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years."
-- Janet Nepolitano, Director of Homeland Security
"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
-- Nancy Pelosi (Dem-California), Speaker of the House, in a statement supporting President Obama's $900 billion stimulus package, 04 February 2009
"Obama is a 'light skinned negro' with no negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
-- Senator Harry Reid (Dem-Nevada), Senate Majority Leader during the 2008 Presidential campaign referring to a 2008 event in Selma, Alabama honoring Civil Rights marchers
"In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. And that may be descriptive but it's true. Well, that is no longer going to be necessary."
-- Senator Harry Reid (Dem-Nevada), Senate Majority Leader at the opening of the $621 million spent for the new Capitol Visitors Center, 02 December 2008
"Now I believe... myself... that the Secretary of State, Secretary of defense... and you have to make your own decision as to what the President knows... that this war is lost... and that the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday."
-- Senator Harry Reid (Dem-Nevada), Senate Majority Leader, 19 April 2007
"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 Fonda speaking to a student audience at the Michigan State University on Nov. 22, 1969
"I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism."
-- Jane Fonda, 11 December 1970, according to the House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS)
"To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day-by-day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it... All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist."
-- Jane Fonda, during a telephone interview with the People's World, the West Coast's Communist Party publication 18 July 1970
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier... It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right."
-- Jane Fonda, reported by Karen Elliott, Dallas Morning News at the University of Texas 11 December 1971
"We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war... We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism."
-- Jane Fonda speaking to South Vietnamese soldiers at the height of the Vietnam War
"...Israel is run by war criminals."
-- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePINK
"I was under the impression that we have the right of free speech. To me, I thought free speech meant you get to say what you want without recrimination."
-- Suzanne "Zanne" Joi of CodePINK
"I was teaching a class on imperialism and I was getting all worked up and upset, and all of a sudden, all I wanted to do was flash my underwear! It was crazy!"
-- Elizabeth "Eve" (not her real name), History Professor and founder of the "Axis of Eve"
"The reason a person is a Conservative Republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a Republican. It's counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty."
-- Jane Anne "Janeane" Garofalo, comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on Air America Radio's "The Majority Report"
"Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment."
-- Jane Anne "Janeane" Garofalo, in an interview with Tony Snow on an episode of Fox News Sunday, 23 February 2003
"Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives."
-- Tom Hayden, former California State Senator as quoted in the New York Times on 18 April 1975
"We should accept that deterioration comes with age, and we should not seek treatments to correct these 'natural' programs."
-- Tom Daschle, (Dem) speaking of the healthcare provisions within the Obama Stimulus Bill and the creation of the "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" which is designed to monitor your treatments, to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective
"I would call it a myth that we have the best healthcare system in the world."
-- Tom Daschle, (Dem) former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
"Very conservative estimates say that the slave trade... just the crossing of the Atlantic... bringing the slaves across, there were 200 million people who died just coming across. So great were the number of people that were thrown overboard, that it altered the ecology of the ocean. The sharks even now trace... follow after ships along a trail, seeking the flesh thrown over board in all those years, 200 years of the slave trade."
-- Major Owens, (Dem) US Representitive, 11th District of New York, 1997
"There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards."
-- Ralph Nadar, in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, 25 June 2008
"He wants to show that he is not a threatening... another politically threatening African-American politician. He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up."
-- Ralph Nadar, in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, 25 June 2008
"Anthrax did not come from a cave in Afghanistan, but from the same people who blew up the building in Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge, the terror attack in Atlanta, Georgia - those same anti-union forces... Ashcroft is using the FBI as one weapon, the IRS as another weapon, and leaks to the right-wing media as another weapon to destroy the leadership of organized labor."
-- Jesse Jackson at a speech to the AFL-CIO, December 2001
"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery - then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
-- Jesse Jackson
"See, Barack's been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people."
-- Jesse Jackson commenting to a guest before an interview on Sunday's "Fox & Friends", 06 July 2008"
"I believe in the CodePINK cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave."
-- Tom Bates, Mayor of Berkeley, California at Berkeley City Council meeting 29 January 2008
"Never submit to fight beneath the banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
-- Senator Robert Byrd (Dem-WV), in a letter to Mississippi Senator Bilbo in 1947
"They won't be able to continue. They won't be able to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work. There's no question in my mind."
-- Rep. John Murtha responding to his efforts to defund the military's mission in Iraq
"Are they [al-Qaeda] a threat to us?"
-- Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) asking Army General David Petraeus at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on 11 September 2007
"If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!"
-- Henry A. Waxman, U.S. Congressman (D-CA)
"Who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family."
-- Barbara Boxer, Democrat Senator from California, speaking to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about being a childless woman and the war in Iraq, January 12, 2007
"We must also recognize that we could never test a Star Wars system under realistic conditions until the moment of an all-out nuclear attack... If Star Wars didn't work perfectly the very first time (the result) would be the destruction of our society... This is the time we must say 'no' to the president's dream, a dream based on illusion, but one which could have real and terrible consequences"
-- Senator John F. Kerry speaking about his objections to America having a missile defense capability, Associated Press, 04 June 1980
"You know, education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you -- you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
-- Senator John F. Kerry, speaking at Pasadena City College in a rally for California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, 30 October 2006
"We do feel to some extent that these elections have sabotaged our peace actions and messaging because... the media is completely focused on the two candidates."
-- Liz Hourican, CodePINK Activist speaking about the lack of media attention to CodePINK's protests and disruptive tactics, 25 August 2008
"The Second Amendment is not really a right."
-- Rosie O'Donnell
"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect."
-- Richard Benedict, an employee for the State Department working on assignment for the Conservation Foundation
"There is a sound case to be made for dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on the Cuban section of Miami. The move would be applauded heartily by most Americans. Alas, Operation Good Riddance would require the sort of mature political courage sadly lacking in Washington, D.C., these days."
-- Alexander Cockburn, Syndicated columnist
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
-- Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund
"We reject the idea of private property."
-- Peter Berle, President, National Audubon Society.
"No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits... climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."
-- Christine Stewart, Canadian Environment Minister, Calgary Herald, 14 December 1998
"What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."
-- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
"Saying homo sapiens are a 'plague species,' the London Zoo opened a new exhibit featuring... eight humans. We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place in the planet's ecosystem."
-- WorldNet Daily, 2005
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
-- Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
"It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil-energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as homo sapiens decide to rejoin nature, we can only hope for the right virus to come along."
-- David Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service
"Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed."
-- Madeline Albright, Secretary of State 1998
"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute."
-- Chelsea Clinton talking to Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids, IA fourth grader "kid reporter" for Scholastic News in Vinton, IA, 30 December 2007
"Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly."
-- Ward Churchill, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, referring to the people that were killed in the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001
"The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism - they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria, and a danger for Iran at this point."
-- David Duke, White Separatist, Former KKK Leader
"I have defended Syria for a long time, so I was admiring Syria, I have admired your president very much. I hope at some point to be able to meet him and shake his hand. I think he is the greatest man in a very difficult period, and especially with what's going on right now, in terms of Lebanon and its relations with Syria. But absolutely, even from my perspective, and it shows you how the Zionist media around the world controls and affects all of us. Even those of us who are aware of it - it's subtly affecting."
-- David Duke, White Separatist, Former KKK Leader
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
-- Janet Reno
"I don't believe gun owners have rights."
-- Sarah Brady of Handgun Control, Inc.
"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
-- Sarah Brady of Handgun Control, Inc.
"Yes, I believe that semiautomatic rifles and shotguns have no legitimate role in civilian hands. And not only that, handguns have no legitimate role in civilian hands."
-- Rebecca Peters, the International Action Network on Small Arms, 2004
"The only way you get anything done is through the political arena. It's just that simple."
-- Wenonia Wall, former chairman of the Richmond County Democratic Party
"I truly believe the only remedy to our problems in society is political."
-- Wenonia Wall, former chairman of the Richmond County Democratic Party
"Outside of the constant killings, Washington [DC] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that's how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
-- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS "To the Contrary"
"Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!"
-- Julianne Malveaux
"We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
-- Walter Cronkite, former Anchor at CBS Evening News
"So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."
-- Walter Cronkite interviewed by Larry King
"It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil."
-- Nelson Mandela, Former Communist ANC Leader
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."
-- Nelson Mandela, Former Communist ANC Leader
"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man."
-- Robert Mugabe, Leader of Zimbabwe
"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"
-- Robert Mugabe, Leader of Zimbabwe
"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change."
-- Robert Mugabe, Leader of Zimbabwe
"The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq."
-- Robert Mugabe, Leader of Zimbabwe
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
-- Michael Moore
"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet."
-- Ernest Bevin, former British foreign minister
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You
can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my
mental health."
-- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a
reparations rally, 2002
"A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-
biscuit-eating Uncle Tom."
-- Spike Lee on Justice Clarence Thomas
"Shoot him with a .44 caliber Bulldog."
-- Spike Lee on Charlton Heston
"All you Jews can go straight to hell."
-- Quannell X, National Youth minister for the Nation Of Islam, New York Daily News, 17
October 1995
"White people are potential humans, they haven't evolved yet."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"
"America must be burned! America is no good at all."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"
"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam, 1984, and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"
"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent
black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us
for 400 years."
-- Louis Farrakhan, City College audience in New York, Leader of the Nation of Islam, 1984, and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"
"So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person? Do you think that somebody
thinks that white people are better, or above dying, when they would kill
their own kind?"
-- Sister Souljah in a Washington Post Interview, 1992
"The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing."
-- Malcolm X, Los Angeles on 03 June 1962 upon learning of a plane
crash
"The good ol' boy cracker-crats of
the Republican party are having themselves a regular hootenanny over
allegations that congresswoman Cynthia McKinney landed a punch on a
security guard at the Capitol."
-- Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, from her website
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
-- Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
-- Thomas Paine
"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."
-- Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, 16 January 2006 during the Martin Luther King Day celebration
"Saddam Hussein's regime represents a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally, Israel. For more than two decades, Saddam Hussein has sought weapons of mass destruction through every available means. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons. He has already used them against his neighbors and his own people, and is trying to build more. We know that he is doing everything he can to build nuclear weapons, and we know that each day he gets closer to achieving that goal."
-- Senator John Edwards, 10 October 2002
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
-- Senator John Edwards, 11 October 2004
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