"I just think it was a cheap shot. It just invites the enemy to attack again." Representative Peter King
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| Political Quotes | |||||||||||||||||
| "It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman" - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia | |||||||||||||||||
| Anyone else think the word Plasticman is funny? | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/13/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "The Republican Party has to realize that it cannot be lily white any longer. . . It starts with the faces" - Armstrong Williams | |||||||||||||||||
| Do you mean they should start using blackface again? | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/15/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| Does he ever understand anything? | |||||||||||||||||
| "It is unfortunate that the president misunderstands our admissions policy." - Mary Sue Coleman | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/16/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/17/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "I think a little more diplomacy would be in order. I don't like this pre-emptive idea. That's imperial. That's not democratic." - Creig Crippen | |||||||||||||||||
| Bu-yah! | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/18/03 | "When they responded to the bellicose language, we said we wouldn't negotiate. Then we said we wouldn't negotiate, but we would talk, leading to the question: `What's the difference?'" - Senator Evan Bayh | ||||||||||||||||
| Bush doesn't know there isn't one. | |||||||||||||||||
| Since when has St. Louis not been part of Missouri? | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/19/03 | "I don't think a St. Louis congressman (Gephardt) should have the right to say what's right for the state of Missouri." - Don Stegner | ||||||||||||||||
| "To avoid a war, I personally would recommend that some provision be made so that the senior leadership in that country and their families could be provided haven in some other country." - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/20/03 | And here I thought this was about weapons. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1/21/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "The last thing we need is policies that divide us at home by race or riches. The ideals of America are not realized but denied by a relentless ideology of tax giveaways for the few - and then even more tax giveaways for the few." - Senator Edward Kennedy | |||||||||||||||||
| "There is nothing moral in strong-arming a personal belief, and there is nothing moral to a presidency that imposes personal morality through acts of government power." - Congressman Dick Gephardt | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/22/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/23/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "If I am fortunate enough to share a stage with this president and debate him, one of the first things I'll tell him is there's a defining issue between he and I. 'I trust women to make their own decisions. You don't, and that's the difference between he and I.'" - Senator John Kerry | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/24/03 | In response to Senator Hillary Clinton's criticism of the Bush Administration not really making America more safe: "I just think it was a cheap shot. It just invites the enemy to attack again." Representative Peter King |
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| Whoa, so letting the public think it's safe when it really isn't is ok? And no one is supposed to say it isn't? | |||||||||||||||||
| "Your neglect of homeland defense funding has relegated 'the common defense' to yet another unfunded federal mandate for already cash-strapped cities - cities that are still reeling from federal and state tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy" - Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/26/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "There's a sausage machine on Capitol Hill. We gave the sausage machine all of the right ingredients, they have to churn, and I'm confident that when they turn that sausage out it'll be the right kind of sausage for America." Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff | |||||||||||||||||
| I wonder how Congress feels about this. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/27/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/28/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "Last year, President Bush told the nation in his State of the Union address that his economic plan could be summarized in a single word ... jobs. Unfortunately, his record could be summed up in one phrase ... loss of jobs." - Representative Nancy Pelosi | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/29/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "At a time when we have only just begun to fight the war on terror, the American people deserve to hear why we should put hundreds of thousands of American troops at risk, spend perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars, risk our alliances, and inflame our adversaries to attack Iraq." - Senator Tom Daschle | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/31/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| "Where will we end up if we suddenly ignore U.N. decisions? A weakening of the U.N. would promote American superpower dreams." - Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson | |||||||||||||||||
| "The Columbia astronauts embodied the pioneer spirit of American optimism, discovery and progress. They had the 'right stuff' that made our nation a great beacon for mankind, made our hopes for the future soar, made opportunities for a better world come true." - Senator John Edwards | |||||||||||||||||
| 2/2/03 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2/3/03 | "Each Columbia crew member was a pioneer. They would want us to recognize their sacrifices through our comments and through our review of their lives and through comforting of their families. I also know they would want us to determine the cause, to fix that cause and to move on in the same spirit of exploration." - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist | ||||||||||||||||
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