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A NOTABLY QUOTABLE collection of vocals- or printed statements representing the deepest of thoughts or the most shallow of utterances. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll agree, you'll fume... read for yourself. Regardless, you won't be disappointed*.

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"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. (...) My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."
> 40-yr.-old (apparently) German actor Gilbert Grape, a.k.a. Johnny Depp. PTD Response: Johnny, are you positioning yourself to jump into the race for the Democratic nomination?

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."
> Arnold Schwarzenegger, to reporters back in the day. The media has unveiled damning quotes like this to point to his inability to manage high office. Ted "I drink Jack Daniels in My Underwear at Parties" Kennedy is, ironically, a media darling. And at least Arnold didn't say "I did not have sex with that woman..."

"Words, no matter how tough, are not enough, A flight to an aircraft carrier, no matter how well staged, does not end a war."
> The haughty and French-looking John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), blasting President Bush in advance of his own aircraft carrier announcement of his already obvious presidential campaign; PDT> Bon jour Monsieur (sp?)

"I do think that what has happened is that whereas the link with al
Qaeda was very tenuous at best when proposed by the Bush administration,
now in fact Iraq is going to become a breeding ground for terrorism or a
gathering ground as Afghanistan has."
> Former Clintonistan Secretary of State Madeline Albright on 8/21/03; PDT> We do think that what has happened is that whereas your legacy has been weakened by exhaustive efforts to remain pacific in the face of imminent threats to the U.S. - and oh, yeah - including al Qaeda.

"They usually start squealing like the mice they are when an interrogator mentions Gitmo."
> A military source to U.S. News & World Report regarding Iraqi terror suspects captured by U.S. Special Forces; PDT> They're getting hot meals, prayer mats, Korans, and truth serum-enhanced interrogation parties... what's so bad about Gitmo? It still beats the pile of rocks they lived in over there...

"The real problem may be the president himself and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one."
> Al Gore, attacking Bush's policies; PDT> Another, albeit related, "real problem", Albert, is that "firing him" is going to be a colossal chore with no one of substance in line to replace him.

"Right now the Democratic voice is not a single voice. It is not a chorus. It is a babble."
> Democrat and former New York governor Mario Cuomo; PDT> Right now?

"Say hasta la vista to Gray Davis."
> "Republican" candidate for the CA gubernatorial mess Arnold Schwarzenegger, announcing his candidacy on the Tonight Show

"What the hell are they going to do all day ... smoke pot?"
> PTD Contributor, in thoughtful response to Dennis Kucinich's proposal to create a "Department of Peace"

Once elected [to CA gov.], Mr. Tate will tackle white collar crime: "Y'all suckahs who don't pay taxes and hang out on your Gucci yachts? With Triple T in charge, you know you gonna get caught." Terry also commits himself to reducing overcrowding at schools, improving air quality, and eliminating "long-[expletive] coffee breaks- five minutes tops, or y'all gonna get clocked."
> From Terry Tate's corner of the Reebok.com website - in regards to his "bid" for the CA governorship... he's about as good a choice as the rest - except of course, 40 or so of the G.O.P. candidates...

" The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. While U.S. and British troops advanced without serious opposition and with a minimum of casualties, the media worried loudly about disaster scenarios that never came to pass. The Turks weren’t letting our troops through. There would be no two front war! Our supply lines were over-extended! Guerrilla attacks would leave our troops without food or ammo! Saddam would blow up the oil wells and trigger an eco-disaster from which it would take decades to recover! We were being sucked into house-by-house, street-by-street fighting in the capital! We didn’t have enough troops! And, when the war was won, the networks and the newspapers fixated on the priceless artifacts that had been looted from the Baghdad Museum!"
> Dick Morris, in unparralleled form, speaking the obvious truth of the matter in his 08.13.03 article

"Simon Says: Schwarzenegger an 'Unknown'."
> Headline on CNN.com (Aug. 12) - As James Taranto (Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web says - "Who is Simon, and doesn't he ever go to the movies?" PTD Coattail Comment> Yeah, Simon... never saw "Last Action Hero"???!!!

"The bottom line is George Bush chooses his words to appeal to America's heartland, but his actions are starving it. He's clearing his ranch in Crawford this month, but he's been clearing everyone else's ranch for two and a half years."
> Howard Dean. PTD> Right Howard... W has been busy working on everyone else's ranch... how good do you really think this guy is?? I mean c'mon...!

"I don't see any difference between interracial marriages and same sex marriages."
> Democratic Longshot for President, Carol Moseley Braun ; PDT> We don't see any difference between the majority of the 200 or so CA gubanatorial candidates and you nine presidential candidates Carol...

"No longer content to play an evil robot, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger will now be running against one."
> Ann Coulter 8.13.03

"Most touchingly, Democrats claim to be shocked at the exorbitant cost of a recall election. They were not such penny-pinchers when contemplating Enron-style pensions for school crossing guards."
> Ann Coulter 8.13.03

"According to recent polls, two out of three people in this overwhelmingly Democratic state want Davis out, and still the recall is being called a 'Republican power grab'."
> Ann Coulter 8.13.03

> more

"The fact that Arianna Huffington hasn't been laughed off a stage yet is a pretty good gauge of the public's frustration with Davis.

:: Ann Coulter 8.13.03

"California is, in fact, a perfect petri dish of Democratic policies. This is what happens when you let Democrats govern: You get a state – or as it's now known, a "job-free zone" – with a $38 billion deficit, which is larger than the budgets of 48 states. There are reports that Argentina and the Congo are sending their fiscal policy experts to Sacramento to help stabilize the situation. California's credit rating has been slashed to junk-bond status, and citizens are advised to stock up for the not-too-far-off day when cigarettes and Botox become the hard currency of choice. At this stage, we couldn't give California back to Mexico."

:: From Ann Coulter's 8.13.03 article "The Democrats' laboratory: The host organism dies"

"California is the only one of the nation's 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control."

:: PTD> In retrospect, go figure. Lovingly gushed by the left-wing American Prospect magazine - June 2002

"[Gray Davis is] truly the rising star among governors across America, and among Democrats he's so highly respected as one of the new breed of moderate, centrist Democrats."

:: PTD> Then why was Dukakis more popular with Republicans than this guy is by Californian Democrats? Liiberals in denial... past, present, and certainly will be in the future. Gushed by the Democratic Governor of Washington, Gary Locke

"[Gray Davis and Al Gore are] strikingly similar in background, outlook and demeanor."

:: PTD> Absolutely. We couldn't agree more. The Associated Press reporting during the Democratic Convention '00.

"In a profile of Kerry's current heiress wife, Teresa Heinz, in the upcoming issue of Elle magazine, noted journalist Lisa DePaulo quotes Kerry oozing with admiration for his wife, saying she is "very earthy, sexy, European." "Earthy" and "European" appear to be euphemisms for hairy armpits and body odor. But we get it. American girls aren't good enough for Frenchy. We don't think he's so hot either."

:: Ann Coulter (May 7 column) ... visit AnnCoulter.com

"If Kerry doesn't need to be lectured on the military by Howard Dean, do the rest of us need to be lectured by this sponge on how much we should be willing to pay in taxes? What is this male Anna Nicole Smith's expertise in average people paying taxes? I don't have a rich wife supporting me. And I don't look French."

:: Ann Coulter (May 7 column) ... visit AnnCoulter.com

"The French stood up to the Bush administration which is more than I can say for the Democrats."

:: Liberal comedian Bill Maher. Newsflash: some liberals ARE capable of intelligent political thought.

"We do bad things to bad people"

:: Graphic on shirt presented to radio personality/troop supporter Mancow by U.S. Marines

"Look at me... do you honestly think there'll be a sex scandal?"

:: Joe Lieberman on Letterman (5/7/03)

"Allowing Cuba to stay on the Human Rights Commission is like honoring Saddam Hussein with the Nobel Peace Prize,".

:: Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley

"there are indications of openness and reform in Cuba" as well as Cubans being "permitted to hear a clear voice calling for freedom of speech and assembly, the organizations of labor unions and opposition political parties.""

:: Included in Jimmy Carter's op-ed in the Washington Post upon his return from vacationing in Cuba (read the article- "The Tyranny of Castro's Regime")

"Rising Dissent, U.S. Pressure Led to Cuba Repression"

:: headline, April 17 > Associated Press (As James Taranto puts it: 'Didn't Castro Have Something to Do With It?')

"U.S. Troops Accused of Killing Iraqis"

:: headline, April 16 > Reuters (As James Taranto puts it: 'In a War? Who'da Thunk It?')

"And why in Heaven's name can't our party be for real tax cuts? In the middle of a recession, the Democrats once had a president who passed a massive tax-cut package. His name was John F. Kennedy. Today, in the middle of a recession, we should be a party advocating for more tax cuts, not less. But we aren't."

:: Democrat Senatro (GA) Zell Miller... you said it Zell..

"Two weeks ago these elites were predicting a long war with horrific casualties and global damage. Then at the sight of Iraqis cheering U.S. troops in Baghdad, they quickly moved on to fret about "looting" and "anarchy." Now that those are subsiding, our pessimists have rushed to worry that Iraqi democracy and reconstruction will be all but impossible. What is it that liberals find so dismaying about the prospect of American success?"

:: The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 (read the article- "The Liberal Pessimists")

"We've gotten rid of him; I suppose that's a good thing."

:: Democratic Presidential hopeful Howard Dean's reponse to the fall of Saddam's ruthless regime

"Americans don't look for deep-thinking intellectuals in their presidents. They look for strong leadership and trust," Rozell said. "Bush comes across as an amazingly self-confident man who knows who he is and what he believes. Democrats better learn to deal with it."

:: Mark Rozell, political scientist at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. (read the article: "Democrats Keep Misunderestimating Bush")

"I know I'm going to know more, and I know I can put two sentences together, and I know I can pronounce the word 'nuclear.' "

:: DickGephardt, ignoring the Gore Debate Disasters of Election 2000 (read R. Benedetto's article in USA Today - "Democrats Keep Misunderestimating Bush")

"Everybody who supports Bush kind of knows in their bones that he is kind of our Kim Jong-il."

:: Clinton Kool-Aid drinker Paul Begala on Don Imus (Friday, April 25, 2003)

"Steadfast, but his war cluelessly flings open the gates of hell, making any sort of victory phyrric."

:: Newsweek's Conventional Wisdom (04.07) - giving President Bush a thumbs down 2 days before we effectively won the war.

"An arrogant blunder for the ages."

:: Newsweek's Conventional Wisdom (04.07) in their "thumbs down" response to Dick Cheney's statement before the war: "We will be greeted as liberators." - two days before Baghdad fell and Marines were greeted with kisses, hugs, flowers, and "George Bush good, George Bush good" chants...

"I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims Whatever Saddam has that might be atrocious- mustard gas, pox, viruses- we will ensure that he uses it."

:: Anti-Bush Blowhard Gore Vidal

"For proof, try this little test: Approach a friend or co-worker whom you actually suspect may pay federal income taxes and ask them what their tax tab was. You will get one of two responses. For the majority of taxpayers who actually get refunds, the response will be "I didn't have to pay anything! I'm getting some back!" Taxpayers who actually have to write a check on April 15 will quote the amount of that check as their tax bill."

:: Neal Boortz (read the article)

"It's as if liberals held focus groups on how to best present their ridiculous ideas and were told: Passion you've got! But what respondents say you lack is: intellection, thinking things through, understanding elementary human nature, and a basic awareness of what people are like. If conservatives have not yet persuaded liberals to give up on socialism and treason, we have at least gotten them to fake linear thinking. The next hurdle is substance."

:: Ann Coulter (read the article)

"What if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? . . . Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And someday, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."

:: President Clinton in 1998

"... in 1999, the Clinton administration and our NATO allies decided to bomb Serbia (for 77 days) without even seeking U.N. approval, after it became clear that Russia would veto any proposal. This contrast with the supposedly muscular Bush administration is especially odd when one considers that Saddam Hussein is far worse than Slobodan Milosevic, and that Iraq has left a long trail of violated Security Council resolutions, while there were none in Kosovo."

:: Richard Holbrooke, a Clinton U.N. ambassador

"Once over there, I felt extremely patriotic."

:: Sheryl Crow, Anti-Bush Activist upon accompanying Hillary Clinton on a USO tour to entertain U.S. troops in Bosnia... Ms. Crow hasn't been found around any military bases lately

"I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene. I am in favor of an intervention ."

:: Mike Farrell, Anti-Bush Activist

"The war will be followed by a presidential election in which all candidates must answer this: ``Do you believe that any use of U.S. military power lacks legitimacy unless approved by France, Russia and China?'' The Republican candidate has already answered."

:: George Will in "The U.N. is a Bad Idea" (read the article)

"France, by attempting to lasso the American locomotive with the cobwebs of U.N. procedures, has emboldened Iraq and made war inevitable, much as the Dred Scott decision lit the fuse of war."

:: George Will in "The U.N. is a Bad Idea" (read the article)

"The purpose of the U.S. Military is to kill people and break things."

:: Rush Limbaugh on his radio program (well, it is... is it not?)

"I don't want to give aid and comfort to the enemy - I just want to be able to tell the truth. I came to Baghdad with my crew because the Iraqi side needs to be heard too."

:: Disgraced Reporter Peter Arnett (Newsmax's reply: Picture Arnett standing in Berlin in 1945, telling us he came there to make sure Hitler's side of the story got told.)

In another remark on Vatican Radio made on the eve of war, Archbishop Martino characterized the American response to Iraq as replying with "bombs to a people that has been asking for bread for the last 12 years." The Vatican role, by contrast, would be to play the "the Good Samaritan who kneels to tend the wounds of an injured, weak nation." Which begs a question: If the biblical Good Samaritan had arrived on the scene a little earlier and stumbled on the robbers instead of their victim, what would have been his obligation?."

:: In "War No More" by William Mcgurn (read it here)

A few nights ago, during that high sandstorm, an embedded TV reporter stood over a soldier who was lying on his stomach, exposed to the wind and grit, holding his rifle and staring through goggles into nothing. The reporter said, "What do you think of being here in conditions like this." The soldier said: "I love it, sir. I truly do. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else right now."

:: In "Taking Sides" by DANIEL HENNINGER (read it here)

"We can feel the heat on our faces. A few embers from the fire that plagues the Middle East landed on our roof in September of 2001. The damage was limited, but horrendous nonetheless. Do we not now send the firefighters down the street to put this fire out before it becomes an uncontrollable conflagration with the wind to its back?"

:: Neal Boortz in "Watching Your Neighbor's House Burn" on WND (read the article)

"Most auspiciously, the Arab League has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the war. One can only hope the Security Council will agree to intervene. How would they stop us? Would France threaten us with war? Young men across America would have to enlist as a matter of honor. The Army could use as its recruiting slogan: "Are you afraid to fight the French?" Even liberals would enlist as a way to pick up glorious service with no risk of injury."

:: Ann Coulter in her excellent article "The Enemy Within" 03.26.03 (read it here) from anncoulter.org

"The United States must not fall into the trap of trying to run a war that pleases a hostile world media. It is becoming increasingly obvious that no matter what we do right, the media will focus on the few accidents that always happen in a war."

:: Hal Linsey in "Ignore the Hostile Media" on WND (read the article)

"Five days after the Baghdad Times was morosely reporting that no one viewed the war with gladness, things had gotten even worse. In a single editorial, the Times said our troops were "faced with battlefield death, human error and other tragedies." The task "looks increasingly formidable." There were "disturbing events," and American forces were engaged in a "fierce firefight – an early glimpse of urban warfare." There were "downsides," "disheartening events" and "grievous blows."

We're losing this war! The Elite Republican Guard is assembling outside New York City! Head for the hills! The "fierce firefight" referred to in the editorial concerned a battle in Nasiriyah in which American troops took an entire city with nine casualties. That's what most people call a "triumphal ass-kicking."

:: Ann Coulter in her excellent article "The Enemy Within" 03.26.03 (read it here) from anncoulter.org

"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France."

:: Mark Twain

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."

:: Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

"The next time Germany invades France, we should let them keep it. It will be just punishment for both."

:: www.axisofweasels.com

"... the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others."

:: (thank God for) -President George W. Bush

"Four decades of feminism have turned middle-class French men into miserable creatures who are intimidated by women and losing their way in an increasingly matriarchal society..."

:: The Times of London 03.2003)

"[Bush] and Saddam should kick it like back in the day
With the cocaine and Courvoisier
But you build more bombs as you get more bold
As your mid-life crisis war unfolds
All you want to do is take control
Now put that axis of evil bullshit on hold
Citizen rule number 2080
Politicians are shady
So people watch your back 'cause I think they smoke crack

Cause I won't carry guns for an oil war
As-Salamu alaikum, wa alaikum assalam
Peace to the Middle East peace to Islam

Now how many people must get killed?
For oil families pockets to get filled?
How many oil families get killed?

George Bush you're looking like Zoolander
Trying to play tough for the camera
What am I on crazy pills? We've got to stop it
Get your hand out my grandma's pocket
We need health care more than going to war
You think it's democracy they're fighting for?"

:: excerpts from the Beastie Boys new song "In a World Gone Mad"

"We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block."

:: (yeah, there's a plan- let's create a superpower vacuum) -Bill Clinton

 

"I'd say the French were 'scumbags' but that would be a disservice to bags full of scum."

:: Dennis Miller

 

 

 

"Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life....It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline..."

:: Margaret Thatcher

"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last 100 years. . . and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in."

:: Colin Powell

"Our business is notorious for being almost lunatic liberal... there's sort of a loony fringe that's way over the top and out of step with mainstream America. But if they were interested in presenting the liberal jihad against Rudy, then I wasn't really interested in participating."

:: By Associated Press, 3/16/2003 01:41 - Actor James Woods in reference to playing Mayor Giuliani in an upcoming television film

"The Democrats may remember their lines, but how quickly they forget the lessons of the past. I have witnessed five major wars in my lifetime, and I know how swiftly storm clouds can gather on a peaceful horizon. The next time a Saddam Hussein takes over a Kuwait, or North Korea brandishes a nuclear weapon, will we be ready to respond?

In the end, it all comes down to leadership. That is what this country is looking for now. It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad and the collapse of imperial communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile because they might just wind up
lowering our flag."

:: Ronald Reagan in 1994 on the occasion of his 83rd birthday

"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning
rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American
flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay
parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a
float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart
swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I
get choked up with pride."

:: Janeane Garofalo in a profile entitled "Don't Tread On Janeane," written by Trish Deitch
Rohrer

"I was struck by how composed [Saddam Hussein] was and how determined. This man is not a madman by any means."

:: Psychological Profiler Jerrold Post in regards to Saddam Hussein's demeanor during his chat with Dan Rather (03.10.03 NewsWeek)

 

"The question comes up: do we want Osama dead or alive? I say alive so that we can kill him."

:: Neal Boortz on his radio program 03.06.03 (www.boortz.com)

 

 

"Bush needs to be exposed for what he is: a racist."

:: Fred Morris, Executive Director of the Florida Council of Churches

"Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly: Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade-long war, not only against soldiers, but against civilians; firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran; and not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq.

The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again."

:: Bill Clinton, December 16, 1998 | read the entire transcript |

"This is a time to send Saddam Hussein as clear a message as we know how to send that we will not tolerate the broken promises and the tremendous acceleration of development of weapons that we've seen time and time again in Iraq."

:: Sen. Tom Daschle, when Clinton bombed Iraq in a wag-the-dog attempt to delay his impeachment

"Month after month, we have given Iraq chance after chance to move from confrontation to cooperation, and we have explored and exhausted every diplomatic action. We will see now whether force can persuade Iraq's misguided leaders to reverse course and to accept at long last the need to abide by the rule of law and the will of the world."

:: Secretary of State Madwoman (sp?) Albright in regards to Clinton's "Impeachment Bombing" of Iraq

"The creative solution now would be to get the Pope, the Dalai Lama, celebrities, and a few who have a voice all over the world to sit and act as human shields so we can avoid a lot of death and destruction. I would love to go with them."

:: "Spiritualist" Deepak Chopra on how to resolve the Iraq crisis

"Damn Americans... I hate those bastards."

:: Carolyn Parrish, member of our good friend Canada's Parliament, as reported by CBS News

"Saddam will never surrender these weapons [of mass destruction]. They are as much a part of his life as eating and drinking."

:: A former senior Iraqi air force officer (in hiding since fleeing Baghdad in 2002), as reported on World Net Daily (02.23.03)

The San Francisco Chronicle has an unintentionally hilarious puff piece on folk singer Joan Baez ("her voice once again resonates among those who are uncertain, uneasy or downright outraged about our government's determination to entangle the nation in a war far from our own shores," yadda yadda), who offers this brilliant foreign-policy insight: "Maybe we ought to put Bush and [Saddam] Hussein in a room together and let them battle it out and save all those lives." We hope Baez is on Carol Moseley-Braun's short list for secretary of state.

:: James Taranto (02.21.03 WSJ Opinion Journal)

In an op-ed piece for the Financial Times, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium explains the origins of weaselateralism: "As long as Soviet divisions could reach the Rhine in 48 hours, we obviously had a blood brotherhood with our cousins overseas. But now that the cold war is over, we can express more freely our differences of opinion. And one of those differences of opinion concerns the fundamental question about the use of war as an extension of politics."

Three thousand people dying on American soil apparently is insufficient to forge a "blood brotherhood" with our friends the Belgians.

:: James Taranto (02.21.03 WSJ Opinion Journal)

"The only consistency in French policy toward Iraq since the Gulf War has been support for Saddam Hussein to weaken U.N. and U.S. measures against him. To hinge U.S. action on Iraq on French acceptance is like asking for the approval of the old Soviet Union before we moved against communism."

- Dick Morris (Read the Article)

"The Los Angeles Times has a quote from French think-tanker Francois Heisbourg that nicely sums up the division between America and old Europe: ' The biblical references in politics, the division of the world between good and evil, these are things that we simply don't get.' This is nothing new. France and Germany didn't quite "get" the difference between good and evil in the 1930s and '40s either."

- James Taranto (02.19.03 WSJ Opinion Journal)

"In this conflict there are only two sides: On the one side stand Saddam and his regime, on the other the peoples of Iraq."

- Amir Taheri (The Western "Street": "Antiwar" mobs side with Saddam and Against the Iraqi People)

"the German and French governments should be commended."

- Spike Lee, at the Berlin Film Festival

"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of our government."

- Ed Norton, at the Berlin Film Festival

"The crowd attending a "Carol Moseley-Braun for president" rally last week compared favorably to the radio audiences for these guys. To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job. So liberals keep serving up their own dreary radio hosts, and the public keeps turning the dial back to Rush Limbaugh."

- Ann Coulter - author of the must-read "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right"

CHEERS FOR TOM DELAY
The Houston Chronicle is reporting of a little incident involving Tom Delay. Apparently the Texas Republican was at a reception in someone’s home where he encountered a citizen of France.. Delay and the Frenchman argued for a while about France’s support for Saddam Hussein. Finally Delay looked at the man and asked him if he spoke German. The Frenchman replied that he didn’t speak German. Delay looked at him and said “You’re welcome,” then turned and walked away.

- Courtesy of www.boortz.com (2.18.03)

 

"The media elites covering national politics would be indistinguishable from the Democratic Party except the Democratic Party isn't liberal enough. A higher percentage of the Washington press corps voted for Clinton in 1992 than did this demographic category: 'Registered Democrats.'"

- Ann Coulter- don't miss her weekly column> (www.anncoulter.org)

 

JOKE QUOTE IN THE SPOTLIGHT >

"...NOW is a non-partisan organization."

- From NOW's website (FAQ section) > www.now.org. Visit NOW's homepage for a humiliating caricature of George W. Bush and its link to the disingenuously partisan www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com. NOW is non-partisan in the same fashion that the Democratic Party is non-partisan.

"I wish the guy would have gone deaf. I shouldn't say that, but on behalf of the country, it would be better without Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners."

- The Nation's Eric Alterman in the 03.03.03 issue of Esquire. PTD agrees with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle- let's have a debate in this country regarding shrill political rhetoric.

"Republicans are for the rich, Charles," scolded Charles Barkley's
mother. "Mama," said Charles, "I AM rich."

- Conversation between Charles Barkley and his mother

"Kids are great... you can teach them to hate the things you hate, and they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

- Homer Simpson, father figure of our age

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

- Bill Clinton, May 28, 1993 Philadelphia, PA

 

 

"I'm tired of being labeled anti-American because I ask questions," says anti-American actress Susan Sarandon. Uh, Sue, don't a lot of people ask questions without being labeled anti-American? Could it be that the reason you're labeled anti-American is that you're, uh, anti-American? Sarandon also says of Britain's prime minister: "What's happened to Blair? I don't understand his reasoning or his logic. I don't understand his evolution. I can see him being seduced by Clinton but don't understand what him and Bush speak about." Her just don't understand.

- The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal (01.29.03) - "Stupidity Watch" regarding Hollywood leftist and "actress" Susan Sarandon's recent comments (read the entire OJ).

"This is the worst president ever,” she said. “He is the worst president in all of American history."

- Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas at the Society of Professional Journalists' annual awards banquet. The American people have been subjected to your beloved polls, Helen, and seem to overwhelmingly disagree... you should have retired during the Lincoln administration.

"You think prisoners should have privileges? Ok, but let's compromise. They want cable television? Fine - give them a 24-hour feed of the security camera at the convenience store they knocked up. Conjugal visits? Yeah, why not... doesn't Leona Helmsley have some community service to work out? Movies? ...we got you the director's cut of Nell. And you want a weight room? You GOT a weight room: it's spelled W-A-I-T ... it's your cell [expletive] - so get in it and wait."

- Dennis Miller on prison conditions

"You know the problem with the liberal prison-reform advocates? They confuse 'tough' with 'inhumane'. Denying inmates privileges like cable TV and Penthouse magazines and feeding them crappy food isn't inhumane. For God's sake, those are the kind of conditions I faced every week when I was a comic on the road."

- Dennis Miller on prison conditions

"Our system actually lets inmates sue if they don't like the food, or the guards, or the reception of the giant-screen TV."

- Dennis Miller on prison conditions

"Premium cable, weight rooms, basketball courts and conjugal visits amazingly enough have not thrown a paralyzing fear of returning to prison into the habitual offender."

- Dennis Miller on prison conditions

"The ACLU says that chain gangs violate the rights of prisoners. Oh yeah, were was the ACLU when the prisoner was violating the human rights of the guy whose head he cut off with an axe?"

- Dennis Miller on prison conditions

"If Bill Clinton told me he was a pathological liar, I wouldn't believe him. "

- Dennis Miller on impeached President Bill Clinton

 

"... putting Social Security reform in front of a liberal is like putting the cross in front of a vampire."

- Robert Novak on The Capital Gang, Nov. 9 (read the transcript)

 

"I'm not suggesting that Scott Peterson had anything to do with his wife Laci's disappearance... I'm just saying that the Modesto Police should be searching the locations that Scott doesn't believe are worthy of a search."

- R. Frank, PreventTruthDecay Contributor

"It would scare the shit out of al-Queda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp. It would get us an enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid."

- Commander in Chief Bill Clinton to General Hugh Shelton, August 1998, in regards to his plan to contain the expanding al-Queda terrorist network

"It's amazing- the same extremists who are tripping over themselves to paint S.U.V. owners as supporters of terror would never in a million years condemn Saddam for polluting the globe with an unimaginable volume of billowing black smoke from the oil fields he purposely destroyed upon losing the Gulf War."

- R. Frank, PreventTruthDecay Contributor

"If Liberal Democrats were left unchecked, the army would be unarmed Boy Scouts, and the Marines would be a roving horde of feminist activists protesting any military involvement."

- Craig Hill, PreventTruthDecay Contributor

 

"I like Johnnie Cochran. I know if I ever kill anyone, I can call him and he'll get me off."

- Charles Barkley on CNN's Talkback Live (Nov. 28, 2002)

 

 

"...consider the psychosis revealed in the concept of "paying for" tax cuts. Tax cuts aren't something you pay for. It's less money for the government to spend. Hearing politicians tell us "we" can't "afford" a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't "afford" a diet. In no other context do people talk about "paying for" money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht."

- Ann Coulter, on the Democrats tendency to define their beloved practice of pushing "tax hikes" in more attractive terms, such as "an investment in our future"... (read the entire article)

DONAHUE: "I just wanted to make sure we got this right: Liberals hate America. They hate all religions except Islam. Liberals love Islam, hate all other religions."

COULTER: "Post 9/11."

DONAHUE: "Well, good for you."

COULTER: "In fact, liberals do go crazy at every mention of God, certainly in a public school. Including voluntary prayers at football games. But I note that they have a very heightened interest that the terrorists at Guantanamo be free to practice their religion."

DONHAUE: [interestingly enough, changes subject]...

- Exchange between Ann Coulter and Phil Donahue on Donahue's failing show, "Donahue" - July 18, 2002

"It's interesting that the Muslims' denial of Stone's account was instantly and universally treated as having precisely the same credibility as Bill Clinton denying he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. Even the Islamic Al Sharptons simply assume these guys are lying. The Muslims now say they didn't do it. Their defenders say they were joking. (Who knew the Religion of Peace was so darn funny? Did you hear the one about the release of VX gas in Disneyland?)..."

- Ann Coulter, on Eunice Stone's report of suspicious conversation involving 3 Muslim men at a Shoney's restaurant in September (read the entire article)

"[Barbara Bush] who, by the way, was always a bitch."

- "Comedian" Bill Maher, on his show "Politically Incorrect", March 6, 2000. That's hilarious Bill.

"She's one of the most genuine people I've ever worked for."

- Bill Maher's guest Monty Warner, on March 6 2000, in defense of Barbara Bush

"And I juxtapose it with Clinton and the wocka-wocka porno guitar of the Clinton administration. I just like Bush, he makes me proud to be an American again. He's just a decent guy."

- Comedian Dennis Miller, on the Tonight Show, Nov. 6, 2002

"Nancy Pelosi embodies everything that's wrong with liberalism."

-Sean Hannity - Nov. 8, 2002 in Jacksonville, Florida (last stop on the Hannitization of America Tour)

"That roar you hear in the distance is the sound of an 18-wheeler loaded with Maalox backing up to the Democratic National Committee headquarters."

-Robert L. Betts, PTD Contributor, following the Republicans' "against all odds" sweep of the midterm election's key races- including the takeover of the Senate (read the article)

"Dick Gephardt resigns from the House Speaker position to embark on Presidential aspirations. That's like little Suzy quitting her t-ball team to attempt to land a contract with the Yankees."

-R. Frank, PTD Contributor, on the day Dick Gephardt announced that his failed House minority leadership role will be cast aside to pursue the White House

"Helen, you sound like a commercial that didn't work."

-Ari Fleischer - in response to the liberal media superstar Helen Thomas, when she asked if George Bush believed the (midterm) election results gave him a "mandate" for "going to war with Iraq, privatizing Social Security, weakening the Civil Service Commission and so forth?" (read the article)

"This [midterm] election is definitely a work in progress. Don't bet on the outcome. Bet on something sure, like the lottery."

-Dick Morris, Oct. 16, 2002 (read the article)

 

"Prior to yesterday's horrific attacks, there had been other attempts by Bin Laden to strike at the American people, which were either thwarted or aborted. But any one of these provocations warranted his death."

-Mark R. Levin, Sept. 12, 2001 (read the article)

"I think you are a very big critic of this country ... and to you, American is essentially wrong..."

-Chris Matthews to Phil Donahue, on Phil's show - Nov. 4, 2002

"To have the president's behavior propel the country into a national discussion of whether oral sex counts as adultery would have been a blatant 'high Crime and Misdemeanor,' if the framers could possibly have imagined any president would sink so low."

-Ann Coulter, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, pg. 13