BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day

Subject: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:19 PM

We have two parties, one of which is the unabashed servant of big business, and the other is, perhaps, a bit abashed.

- Steven Brust, from his blog "A Bland and Deadly Courtesy"

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Folkiedave
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:30 PM

I thought it was (from the UK) one represents big business and the other represents big, big business.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:42 PM

"Under the Republicans, people exploit people. Under the Democrats it is the opposite."

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:56 PM

A waratah

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:57 PM

Sorry, wrong thread. How embarrassiing. Carry on.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 08:04 PM

S'okay, John. But maybe it does belong on the salt-free V8 juice thread.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 08:35 PM

"I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject."—answering a question concerning a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007


"I cannot look a mother and father of a troop in the eye and say, 'I'm sending your kid into combat, but I don't think we can achieve the objective.' "—Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007


"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."—Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007.


G. W. Bush

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:08 PM

Who was it when questioned by an Aussie Journalist if he knew just how much Sydney was being disrupted because of his visit for APEC expressed genuine astonishment?

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:17 PM

Well, there's the awareness factor....

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:19 AM

""Bush didn't give a fuck about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."

-- a former CIA officer, describing the president's reaction to a Sept. 17, 2002 briefing by CIA director George Tenet on intelligence that Saddam Hussein had no WMDs

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 12:07 PM

"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary."

-- Bill Richardson

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 12:15 PM

"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 12:20 PM

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Mr Happy
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 12:24 PM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iR94yjZrYR4

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 09:16 PM

I thought it was communism that was the exploitation of man by man, and socialism the reverse...

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 09:20 PM

No no, you've got that all arse-about.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 11:24 PM

"So brilliant yet so corrupt. Like a mackerel; rotting and stinking and glowing in the moonlight." Wait a minute! That must be about the VICE president. Somebody else, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:49 AM

"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson

the bastard

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:53 AM

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: GUEST,Neil
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:57 AM

"I belong to no organized political party...I'm a Democrat."
                                           Will Rogers

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 09:12 AM

"Um... no."
-- Donald Rumsfeld, on whether he misses Bush

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 09:48 AM

...In D.C. you're not considered sound and serious about national security unless you were wrong about Iraq.

Paul Krugman, NY Times

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 12:57 PM

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."
Robert Byrne.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:08 PM

"Too bad ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." Henry Kissinger

"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!" - George W. Bush (that may explain a lot!)






and though not exactly U.S. or recent:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:25 PM

To have no wars in the future would be a dire threat to hundreds of thousands, no, to millions of highly paid professional people whose jobs depend on preparing for and fighting wars. It would do catastrophic damage to the armed forces, the defence industry, the transportation industry, and the entire techological sector.

Wars are not fought to cause "no more war", no more than they were in ancient Rome. Expect more wars.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:40 PM

"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way." --George W. Bush, Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:42 PM

"And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me -- give my chance a plan to work." --George W. Bush, in an interview with Charlie Rose, April 24, 2007

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:56 PM

there are numerous quotes from various idiots patriots saying, essentially: "We must win this war and establish Democracy in Iraq, or all these American deaths will have been in vain."

right...continuing like lemmings, trying to ford "The Big Muddy", and killing a few thousand more, will 'make it all worthwhile'.

Very much like the sentiment Nietzsche expressed over 100 years ago, when he quoted an old woman as saying, "Of course it was a just war! My son died in it!"

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 02:13 PM

Croesus:

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Peace
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 02:16 PM

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 03:38 PM

What always boggles my mind processes is when people/officials promote a view as to what will happen by such and such a date- when they have not yet even begun it.

When they have not yet been successful in getting it started, what makes them think they can predict its success next year?

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Amos
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 09:00 AM

"Is our children learning?"
-- George W. Bush, January 11, 2000
"Childrens do learn."
-- George W. Bush, September 26, 2007

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Kent Davis
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 10:31 PM

Why quote President Bush's slips of the tongue as though they reveal some great flaw? Do you really believe that? If you do, what do your own slips of the tongue (or your typos on Mudcat) reveal about you?
It is unseemly to mock the President of the United States for slips that are no different from those we ourselves have made and will continue to make.

Kent

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: John O'L
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 10:51 PM

Here you have anonymous people expressing all sorts of opinions, none of which matters.

Up there you have a guy who can effect the lives of millions of people, not just in the US but all around the world. When he addresses the public I expect him to get it right. I expect him to know what he's talking about, and to at least have some idea of what's going to come out of his own mouth next

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 11:23 PM

Hear, hear, John O'L!

Mr. Davis, those 'slips of the tongue' of our 'leader' reveal more than just a momentary lapse. Perhaps you had better hope that we don't cart the lapses in- look up 'bushisms' if you wish to be appalled. Far from being just slips of the tongue they reveal a monstrous lack of coherency of thought.

And this is the person "we" chose to represent us. The person who currently holds and has access to the most firepower in the world. The person who appears not to have the judgment of a ______________(insert your own creature here).

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: number 6
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 11:28 PM

"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort"

... Vice President Spiro Agnew
You have to give Spiro some credit ... he did apologize.

"Canada has two official languages and I don't speak none of them.
..... Eugene Whelan, Minister of Agriculture in the Liberal Cabinet under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: U. S. Political Quote of the Day
From: number 6
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 11:29 PM

I just had to throw a Canadian political quote into this thread.


biLL