"Read my lips: no new taxes." -George Bush
"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?" -George Bush
"Actually, I--this may sound a little west Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about--when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."
-George W. Bush
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
-George W. Bush
"I regret that a private comment I made to the vice-presidential candidate made it through the public airways." -George W. Bush
DUBYA: I talked to my little brother, Jeb--I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of--I shouldn't call him my little brother--my brother Jeb, the great governor of Texas.
JIM LEHRER: Florida.
DUBYA: Florida. The state of Florida.
-George W. Bush & Jim Lehrer
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More & more of our imports come from overseas." -George W. Bush
"I understand small business growth. I was one." -George W. Bush
"Keep good relations with the Grecians." -George W. Bush
"States should have the right to enact reasonable laws & restrictions particularly to end the inumane practise of ending a life that could otherwise live." -George W. Bush
"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their money." -George W. Bush
"The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty...I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas." -George W. Bush
"There ought to be limits to freedom." -George W. Bush
"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them."
-George W. Bush
"Well, I think if you're going to do something & don't do it, that's trustworthiness." -George W. Bush
"We'll let our friends be the peacemakers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers." -George W. Bush
"When it is all said & done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make."
-George W. Bush
"When more & more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." -Calvin Coolidge
"The Internet is a great way to get on the net." -Bob Dole
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough." -Newt Gingrich
"Capital punishment is our way of demonstrating the sanctity of life." -Orrin Hatch
"Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves." -Rush Limbaugh
"Feminism was established to allow unnattractive women easier access to the mainstream."
-Rush Limbaugh
"If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people--I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do--let the stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."
-Rush Limbaugh
"One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the homeless olympics...the 10-metre shopping cart relay, the dumpster dig, and the hop, skip, and trip." -Rush Limbaugh
Sexual harassment at this work station will not be reported. However...it will be graded!!!
-sign on Limbaugh's office door
"Why should Blacks be heard? They're 12% of the population. Who the hell cares." -Rush Limbaugh
"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right there." -Dan Quayle
"I am the future." -Dan Quayle
"I love California. I practically grew up in Pheonix." -Dan Quayle
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." -Dan Quayle
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, & the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with these people." -Dan Quayle
May our nation be a beakon of hope to the world. -Quayles' 1989 Christmas card (not a beacon of literacy, though)
"One word sums up the responsibility of any vice president, & that one word is 'to be prepared.'"
-Dan Quayle
"The loss of life will be irreplaceable." -Dan Quayle
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
-Dan Quayle
"Facts are stupid things." -Ronald Reagan
"Just like what nazi Germany did to the Jews, so Liberal America is doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic congress, the Liberal-based media & the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse & discrimination & the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." -Pat Robertson
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is a Socialist, anti-family political movment that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." -Pat Robertson
"So I told the congregation this Christmas, I want you to do the most loving thing, buy each of your children an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition." -Matt Trewhella
"Promise keepers offer women a new kind of freedom, liberation through submition." -Bunny Wilson
Thoughts On republicans
"It seems to be a law of nature that republicans are more boring than Democrats." -Stewart Alsop
"When George moved back to Midland, he bummed an office, he bummed golf clubs, bummed shoes. You were luck if you saw him in a clean shirt." -Tom Craddick, republican in Texas house of representatives & longtime friend of George W. Bush
"Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation." -Al Franken
"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time." -L.L. Giacomini
"The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying the Liberals."
-Harry Golden
"Every good Christian should line up & kick Jerry Falwell's ass." -Barry Goldwater
"Newt Gingrich is a draft-dodging, dope-smoking, wife-divorcing, deadbeat-dad, which I assure you, meets all the standards of accuracy set by Rush Limbaubh." -Molly Ivins
"Do you know the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the white house."
-John F. Kennedy
"Rush Limbaugh has built a house in Florida with an in-house radio studio. Now Rush can stay in the same chair 24 hours a day until he gets that Jabba The Hutt look he has been working on for so long."
-Jim Kennumer
"I'm a loyal republican. I support the president [Ronald Reagan] when he's right--and I just keep quiet the other 95 percent of the time." -John Leboutiller
"The republicans think they have a corner on morality." -Marya Mannes
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." -John Stuart Mill
"George W. Bush we can dismiss with a summary comment: nothing more than a corporation disguised as a human being." -Ralph Nader
"The only difference between Al Gore & George W. Bush is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock." - Ralph Nader
"Democrats are the Party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the only party that says government doesn't work--and then they get elected to prove it." -P.J. O'Rourke
"He votes for plastic guns & cop killer bullets? Yeah! That's a real winning issue for the republicans, don't you think?" -Ronald Reagan Jnr., on Dick Cheney
"The big elepahnt sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. He's probably the least qualified person ever to be nominated by a major party. Yes, he was elected governor of Texas & before that he ran a baseball team & lost a lot of other people's money in the oil business. But what has happened in the intervening 5 years to make people believe he'd be a good president? What is his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk? The defining moment for me was his Karla Faye Tucker smirk, joking about a woman he would put to death. No adult would ever do that. It wouldn't even cross the mind of a grownup to joke about something like that." -Ronald Reagan Jnr.
"Rush Limbaugh is for people who aren't mature enough for Barney." -David Romm
"I am reminded of four definitions: a radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has neve learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest the command--of his head." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It's much harder to be a Liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand." -Mike Royko
"Bob Dole couldn't sell beer on a troop ship." -William Saxbe
"Republicans sleep in twin beds--some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats." -Will Stanton
"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
-Mark Twain
Wierd Science
"When women are truly raped, the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant." -Henry Aldridge, on denying women abortion rights for rape
"We know that acid rain has no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States...it is based on popular myths & half-baked theories." -Haley Barbour
"It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema."
-Rush Limbaugh
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities of our air and water that are doing it." -Dan Quayle
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somwhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, & water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." -Dan Quayle
"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite." -Dan Quayle
"The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...The study reveals that 80% of air pollution comes not from chimneys & auto exhaust pipes, but from plants & trees." -Ronald Reagan
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -Ronald Reagan
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