FREEDOM EDEN'S WALL OF SHAME

Weiner Chronicles

2012-01-28T00:03:00.003-06:00

"The picture was of me, and I sent it."

--ANTHONY WEINER

WEINER: 'YOU AREN'T GIVING MY PACKAGE DUE CREDIT'

WEINER'S MESSAGES TO TEENAGE GIRL IN DELAWARE DRAW POLICE ATTENTION

DELUSIONAL SUPERHERO ANTHONY WEINER LIKED TELLING THE LADIES ABOUT HIS CAPE, TIGHTS

WEINER -- YUKKING IT UP WITH PORN STAR DURING SCANDAL

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT

TRANSCRIPTS FROM FACEBOOK CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN REP. ANTHONY WEINER AND LAS VEGAS BLACKJACK DEALER LISA WEISS

I, WEINER

ANTHONY WEINER'S JUNK DEFENSE

WEINERGATE'S 9 BEST MOMENTS

Celebrity Lunacy

2010-11-16T00:00:00.003-06:00

Updated November 16, 2010

"And to play Dick Cheney, all I had to do was find my Dick Cheney. And you can find all the villainy in the world in your own heart, and that`s what an actor`s job is. I always say to kids, inside you is Hitler and Jesus. And you got to find the appropriate person and bring them out."

--RICHARD DREYFUSS

"I don't need to respect you, and you're a fag. You're gay, and stop being such a faggot... And will.i.am, f--- you, because you f---ing lied. You f---ing motherf----er... You're shameful. You're disgusting. You are subhuman... And Fergie, you're fugly, bitch."

--PEREZ HILTON (Mario Lavandeira)

"McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed."

--LUDACRIS

“You do the actuary tables, there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term, and it’ll be President Palin…. It’s like a really bad Disney movie, ‘The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she’s president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”

“He’s (Bill Kristol) an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”

--MATT DAMON

"This just doesn't smell right. This is not the way a tested hero behaves. Somebody's putting something in [John McCain's] Metamucil."

--DAVID LETTERMAN

"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."

"This weekend I was performing at Northeastern and I just read the statement that Sarah Palin had made about the 'pro-American' parts of the country and I...in response to that, I think I might have said, you know, 'F--- you!' That's just my way of saying that I think that's a profanity to say, and I was answering with a profanity. But it's not really fair, and it makes it seem like I'm just addressing Governor Palin about this, and I'm not, it's just this whole entire theme that there's more American areas, or some people love the country, some people don't. So what I meant to say is, 'F--- all y'all.'"

--JON STEWART

"This just doesn't smell right. This is not the way a tested hero behaves. Somebody's putting something in [John McCain's] Metamucil."

--DAVID LETTERMAN

"You're my man (John McCain). God bless you. You're a great war hero, but you are buggin' the f--- out. Sarah Palin, that is completely irresponsible... Yo, Sarah, you ain't ready to be no vice president, man... You are buggin' the f--- out, John McCain... I'm gonna bring millions out to the polls November 4th to make sure that... Alaska, m-----f---er? What is the reality in Alaska? Like what is... There's not even no crackheads in Alaska. There's not even no black people. There's not even no, like, crime."

--DIDDY

"Star-Spangled Banner going on right now. I don't even celebrate that (expletive). I'm black (expletive)... Obama and all that (expletive)."

--JOSH HOWARD

"You know I just, I just came back from Moscow, Berlin, London and Paris and it's the first, I've been there quite a few times in the past five to 10 years. And it just hasn't been a good thing to be American. And this is the first time, since Barack has gotten the nomination, that it, it was a good thing."

--WILL SMITH

[The bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled] "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing."

--ALICIA KEYS

"This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot."

--ZACK DE LA ROCA

"The Republicans in the US manipulate public opinion and sweep controversial issues under the table. It's depressing. Decisions in America are based solely on the question of how much money will come out of it and not on the questions of how much health, morals or environment suffer as a result... The thing is that we elected Bush. That is worse. Against that, nobody chose a communist government in Czechoslovakia."

--MARTINA NAVRATILOVA

"I am so grateful that [Hillary Clinton] hasn't been trained to kill anybody."

--GLORIA STEINEM

"I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he's single."

"If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you 'Pope.' It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia -- too big, too fat."

"When the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick Cheney, he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the Statute of Limitations ran out. And that's the Church's attitude: 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it,' which is fine, far be it from me to criticize religion. But just remember one thing: If the Pope was -- instead of a religious figure -- merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of day care centers, where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say 'who wants to touch Mr. Wiggle?'"

"[The Republicans] have something very gay, excuse me, going on with Ronald Reagan. I mean, they love Ronald Reagan in a way that's just gay. I'm sorry. But, I think they want to put him on a stamp so that they can lick his backside. Well, seriously, I mean – am I right?"

"Why couldn't, uh, why couldn't have [Rush Limbaugh] croaked from [OxyContin] instead of Heath Ledger?"

--BILL MAHER

"Every time I hear the word 'conservative,' it makes me sick to my stomach, because they're really just fake Christians, as I call them. That's all they are."

--CHARLES BARKLEY

"I'll do whatever [Obama] says to do. I'll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear."

--HALLE BERRY

"We've been redefined for seven years now as a war-mongering, far right, intolerant nation who's raping our own atmosphere and demonizing the poor and letting the banks rob us blind… And I think Obama will, at the very least, put the brakes on this madness and in some ways heal it… [B]eing a man of color, I think the rest of the world, if they see that America elects a man of color I think they'll breathe a big sigh of relief and not think that we're this warmongering, rich white guy country."

--RICHARD BELZER

"[Obama] walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere."

--GEORGE CLOONEY

"[S]o I think [Obama] definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I -- I -- you know, I can't wait to see what he stands for."

--SUSAN SARANDON

"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."

"Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture."

"If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying."

--STEPHEN KING

"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"

--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand

"I had made a request that I be interviewed by (co-hosts) Joy (Behar), Barbara (Walters) or Whoopi (Goldberg), but not Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Unfortunately, the show was not willing to accommodate this simple request so I bowed out. It's really too bad because I've always been a big supporter of the show, but I cannot compromise my (pro-abortion) beliefs."

--BARRY MANILOW

"I just thought it was interesting, because it seemed like a light went off in [Michael Vick's] head when he realized [dogfighting] was something that the entire country didn't appreciate, didn't like. This is part of his cultural upbringing."

"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"

--WHOOPI GOLDBERG

"How did we elect Bush twice? What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?"

--RICHARD GERE

"It was one of my life's proudest achievements.

"More than the films, more than the awards — finding out that I was on Nixon's Enemies List meant that I was doing something right…

"I was proud to stand with Democrats against an imperial president back then. And I am proud now to stand with a new generation of Democrats against a president who poses what I believe to be the biggest internal threat to American democracy in my lifetime."

--PAUL NEWMAN

"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting… [W]e can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required."

--SHERYL CROW

"You have broken our country; you have broken our hearts. The needless blood on your hands ... is drowning the freedom, the security and the dream that America might have been, once healed up from Sept. 11, 2001."

"But now we are encouraged to self-censor any words that might be perceived as inflammatory, if our belief is that we should stop this war today. We cower as you point your fingers telling us to support our troops - well, you (Bush) and the smarmy pundits in your pocket - those who bathe in the moisture of your blood-soaked underwear can take that noise and shove it, because we will be snowed no more."

"Let's fight this president and put him in f--ing jail."

"You (Bush) and your smarmy pundits -- and the smarmy pundits you have in your pocket -- can take your war and shove it."

"If they don't stand up and make a resolution as binding as the death toll, we are not going to be behind those politicians."

(Referring to President George W. Bush) "[H]e's Beelzebub -- and a dumb one."

--SEAN PENN

"We've gone from this tremendous power that was respected all over the world to somewhat of a laughing stock."

"Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election."

"Everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction, it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which [Bush] thought was going to be easy and it turned out to be the exact opposite of easy. He reads 60 books a year. He reads a book a week. Do you think the president reads a book a week? I don't think so. He doesn't watch television. Now, one thing I know is when I'm on television, I watch, or I try. You do. Your own ego says, let's watch. Whether good or bad, you want to watch. He doesn't watch television. He's on television being interviewed by you or someone else, he doesn't watch. Does anyone really believe that?"

--DONALD TRUMP

"I'm just saying if [Dick Cheney] did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact."

--BILL MAHER

"Well, you know, I hate gay people. I let it be known I don't like gay people. I don't like to be around gay people. I'm homophobic. It shouldn't be in the world, in the United States, I don't like it."

--TIM HARDAWAY

"Well, to quote the great Simpsons: heh-heh."

(Referring to President George W. Bush) "You're a dumb f---."

"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."

"I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."

--NATALIE MAINES

"I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me... Numb nuts (President Bush)."

--DANNY DeVITO

"You know, we love him. We'll have [Danny DeVito] on again."

--BARBARA WALTERS

"Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

--ELTON JOHN

"I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans."

--GWYNETH PALTROW

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

"And just one second, radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America. ...[W]e are bombing innocent people in other countries. True or false?"

"This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague."

"People who lie die of cancer."

"I don’t defend the mullahs. I defend the innocent civilians living in Iraq who had nothing to do with attacking the United States, and who are dying in unprecedented numbers because of the occupation by the U.S. forces of their nation. So, I'm against us being a bully, the U.S."

"No one in the upper echelon ever pays, none of those rich white guys who run the government. And I support the troops and the Lynndie England and the people who are on the ground doing it because I was never one of those rich white guys."

--ROSIE O'DONNELL

"F-----g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

--MEL GIBSON

"This Easter season, let’s give [Christians] what they want – let’s go to the zoo, get some lions, and feed them Tom DeLay."

--BILL MAHER

"And so I have to qualify it by saying I'm not qualified to speak on the page-to-page content of the initiative. Although, I am quite sure that I'll agree with [Missouri's Amendment 2] in spirit, I don't know, I -- On full disclosure, I haven't read it, and that's why I didn't put myself up for it distinctly."

--MICHAEL J. FOX

"The President is a moron! I'm saying it. I don't care. He's an idiot. Cheney is evil. I'm sick of, impeach them, get them out! I hate them! I hate them. Get them out. They got to go!...What is it going to take for you people? Get Bush out! Impeach. Out! Out! Out!"

--KATHY GRIFFIN

"It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions... September 11 wasn't the Zapruder film, it was the Zapruder film festival."

--CHARLIE SHEEN

"[Bush] wasn’t surprised, because he knew all about the planning for 9/11."

"Secretary of State Colin Powell lied about WMDs. That was the true tragedy of race: a black man lying for a corrupt white administration that was using him as a token, much as they use Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now.

Obama is also a token -- of our incomplete progress toward an interracial society. I have nothing against him except his inexperience. Many black voters agree. They understand tokenism and condescension."

--ERICA JONG

"Well, I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

--IAN McKELLEN

"We want change. We want this war to end. And how did Bush respond? Twenty-one thousand, five hundred more will risk their lives for his misguided war. Is impeachment still off the table? Let's get him out of office."

"We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States. [Bush] got us into [the Iraq] war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al-Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment."

"In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do."

--TIM ROBBINS

"Just go to Texas and suck George Bush's d--k."

--MADONNA

"Okay, how many here, if you shot a friend in the face, would go to the hospital, either in the ambulance or in one of the bullet-proof cars that the Secret Service has to see if your friend was okay? So either [Cheney] was drunk and couldn't show up at the hospital -- (does drunk impersonation) 'I'm sorry, Harry' -- You know, they can't do that. Or he's an amazing jerk. Really? Right? Or, of course, both."

--AL FRANKEN

"I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a free ride from black people. People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala., and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life. Condi, stop smoking that crack!"

--SPIKE LEE

"If I hear one more person tell me how [Bush] is a man of faith, I think I'll lose my mother-f---ing mind... He left his ranch in Crawford to see about one woman, Terry Schiavo, he left his ranch early. But when thousands and thousands of people were being, dying in New Orleans, this son of a bitch didn't do shit, and that's very un-Christlike to me."

--D.L. HUGHLEY

"I think we’ve never been as close to George Orwell’s '1984' as before. We live in a society where individual rights and legality are definitely threatened and that’s scary."

"We should have asked more questions in the beginning. Something as huge as war, something as big as sending your kids off to kill, should have some kind of discussion."

--SUSAN SARANDON (Note: "Sending your kids off to kill" doesn't sound like the statement of someone proud of the U.S. military.)

"Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment."

--RICHARD DREYFUSS

"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States. Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."

--PAUL VERHOEVEN

The United States is "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet."

--DICK GREGORY

"I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."

--BILL MAHER

"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."

"I haven't spoken at an anti-war rally in 34 years because of lies about me that were used to hurt the anti-war movement. But silence is no longer an option. Thank you so much for the courage to stand up to this mean-spirited and vengeful administration."

--JANE FONDA

"If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late. We were clearly deceived by this administration and now we find ourselves fighting a war under false pretenses.”

"Only if [Democrats control Congress] can we even begin to imagine a time when there will be a myriad of investigations so desperately needed on so many issues - let alone the ultimate investigation which would involve the conduct of the president of the United States and the determination of whether his actions warranted impeachment proceedings."

--BARBRA STREISAND

[Bush and his administration] were inept. They were inadequate to the task, and they lied. And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They do not care. They do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit, and they will destroy our lives."

--DONALD SUTHERLAND

"I got a letter from the Republican Party the other day. I wrote back, 'Go f--- yourself.' George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him."

--BETTE MIDLER

"To send people off to die for a lie -- I swear I never thought I'd see that again in my lifetime….It's beyond impeachable. If we had just one house of Congress, this man would be impeached."

--ROB REINER

"And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed.... And I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically against the death penalty, but they are going to be executed it looks like."

--AL FRANKEN

"I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that [Bush and his administration] are liars and they are murderers."

"You have to put like a Hitler type [on TIME's cover as Person of the Year]. Like, you put Donald Rumsfeld there or something."

--JOY BEHAR

"It's not like your normal, 'I am angry, I protest' song. There's a groove going on. It's kind of cookin' along on a nice groove. And I'm saying like 'Wow' in the middle, a little bit of a surprise for a statement I wanted to make. It became very heartfelt." (Bacharach said he cried doing the vocal.)

--BURT BACHARACH

"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your (Hugo Chavez) revolution."

When asked about what impact prominent blacks such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration's relations with minorities:

"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated."

--HARRY BELAFONTE

Cheesy Cheeseheads

2010-03-27T14:21:00.000-05:00

Updated March 27, 2010

"Unlike the Marquette Interchange, the Zoo Interchange will stand long enough for us to resolve these issues."

--TOM BARRETT

"I did not say this (sexually explicit comment about his sister-in-law) disparagingly."

--BOB RYAN

"I had my friends from Planned Parenthood give me a bunch of condoms because I feel I need to protect myself from John McCain as a woman."

--GWEN MOORE

"Michael or Mike, or it could be Thug Mike."

(How to address the former Milwaukee alderman)

--MICHAEL McGEE JR.

"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections."

--TOM BARRETT

"I would say one of the reasons that you've had incidents of violence, of sectarian violence go down is because you're running out of people to kill. I mean, they've killed so many in so many areas that there are fewer opportunity targets, if you want to put it that way, for each side."

--DAVE OBEY

"I just freaked out."

--ERIC HAINSTOCK

"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections."

"[Milwaukee's Juneteenth Day violence] is something that is not a plus for the city at all."

--TOM BARRETT

"There's no racial tensions that exist within the city of Milwaukee."

--WILLIE HINES

"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."

"I propose an oil company assessment of two and a half percent per barrel to support our transportation needs. It will be illegal for them to pass the fee on to consumers �� with criminal penalties if they break the law.
Let's turn the tables on big oil, and give Wisconsin families a break.

"[R]espect for human life means you don't turn your back on cures that can save lives."

"The [Wisconsin] Republican Party has nominated a candidate for Governor who is a relentless opponent of stem cell research.

"Our opposition opposes federal funding for stem cell research.

"If our opponents are victorious, stem cell research will come to screeching halt in the state of Wisconsin...and the repercussions will be enormous."

--JIM DOYLE

"My best recollection is that I was splitting my time between Wisconsin and Illinois and it's possible I made a mistake."

--DONOVAN RILEY

"I am a Freedom Fighter."

--TOM BARRETT

"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime."

"Then I go to his wife, 'Hi Barbara, how are ya?' I did that because I learned on the campaign that the meanest thing you can say to another gentlemen is, 'he's a fine fellow,' and you then refer to his spouse by a different name."

--STEVE KAGEN

"Roses are Red. Violets are Blue, Today is a great day and I miss you! Too bad but not too sad that you are carrying that McGee Seed."

"I don't have a birth certificate."

--MICHAEL McGEE JR.

Media Whores

2009-11-09T18:24:00.002-06:00

"This is not some kind of a hoax."

--RICHARD HEENE

2009-10-05T00:00:00.000-05:00

Link:

Castro Fan Club

2009-07-17T18:04:00.001-05:00

"He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'"

--LAURA RICHARDSON, (D-CA)

"It was almost like listening to an old friend."

"In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor."

"We've been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we've been told."

"Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."

--BOBBY RUSH, (D-IL)

"[Castro was] very engaging, very energetic."

"It was quite a moment to behold."

--BARBARA LEE, (D-CA)

"[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met."

--EMANUEL CLEAVER, (D-MO)

THE OBAMA FILES

2009-01-26T12:23:00.023-06:00

Updated January 28, 2012

"Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt's time, there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. 'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes -- especially for the wealthy -- our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that's the price of liberty.

"Now, it's a simple theory. And we have to admit, it's one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That's in America's DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here's the problem: It doesn't work. It has never worked."

"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."

"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."

"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."

"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."

"Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible." (Note: The Iraqi people are better off because of the service and sacrifice of American troops. No apology is necessary.)

"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." (Note: That's a false statement.)

"My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell." (Note: That appears to be a false statement. Obama's deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough says that Obama's father was Muslim.)

"I want to be very clear, that we are resolved to halt the rise of PRIVACY in that region."

"My administration is the only thing between you (bank CEOs) and the pitchforks."

"We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms."

"There's gotta be a little gallows humor to (LAUGHS) get you through the day."

"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something."

"What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing."

"And I can make a firm pledge: under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase - not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."

"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture (1 Corinthians 13:11), the time has come to set aside childish things."

"I won. I will trump you on that." (Obama to GOP)

Note: That sounds childish. I thought the time had come to set aside childish things. Where's that new tone? Where's that promise of bipartisanship, Barack?

"In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances."

"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

"[J]ust to take a, sort of a realist perspective... there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you've got World War II, you've got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home."

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this (spreading the wealth around) socialistic. You know, I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."

"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could save just as much."

"Will we acknowledge — will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law?

"The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years."

(Note to Obama: A U.S. president can be elected to two 4-year terms.)

"You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language."

"We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black? He's got a feisty wife."

"I mean, think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela-- These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us."

"Well, I think actually Justice Breyer, Justice Ginsburg are very sensible judges. I think that Justice Souter, who was a Republican appointee is a sensible judge. What you're looking for is somebody who is going to buy the law where it's clear."

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

"I've got to give a special shout out to my pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He's a friend and a great leader."

"Tony Rezko was a friend and supporter of mine for many years. These charges are completely unrelated to me, and nobody disputes that. There's no dispute that he raised money for us, and there's no dispute that we've tried to get rid of it."

"You know, I've heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon -- supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition, they didn't have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief."

"I have to say that, you know, I would have to, you know, investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities. You know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother."

"We've had enough of mounting costs in Iraq and missed opportunities around the world. Weve had enough of a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged."

"We've got to get the job done there (Afghanistan). And that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."

"I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance...involving civilians. Let me scratch that. There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the table."

"Let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked... Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us... At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church..."

"Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better."

"The day that this president steps down, the entire world will breath a sigh of relief."

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed."

"There will be speculation as to what caused this young man [Seung-Hui Cho] to snap … There's also another kind of violence though that we're gonna have to think about… Last week, the big news, obviously, had to do with Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at young women who were role models for all of us."

"I know if cousin Pookie would vote, if brother Jethro would get off the couch and stop watching Sports- Center and go register some folks and go to the polls, we'd have a different kind of politics. Kick off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes!"

"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."

"We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."

"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it."

--BARACK OBAMA

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"Yesterday, Jim, the head of Caterpillar, said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off."

--BARACK OBAMA, Febraury 12, 2009

"We don't want false expectations. If we sign a stimulus bill that doesn’t mean we'll start hiring right away."

--JIM OWENS, Caterpillar CEO, Febraury 12, 2009

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"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."

--TOM DASCHLE

Question: "Mr. President, do you still stand behind Tom Daschle?"

"Absolutely."

--BARACK OBAMA

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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

"F---ing retarded."

"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!"

--RAHM EMANUEL, Barack Obama's Chief of Staff

"Uh, I've not reviewed [the Arizona law] in detail. I certainly know of it, Senator [McCain]."

"[T]he system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days."

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"Our system did not work in this instance. No one is happy or satisfied with that."

--JANET NAPOLITANO

"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

"I've just expressed concerns on the basis of what I've heard about the [Arizona] law. But I'm not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is."

--ERIC HOLDER

"Have I read the [Arizona] law? No."

--PJ CROWLEY, State Department spokesman

WHITE HOUSE SNITCH PROGRAM

"If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

"The reality of it is FOX News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.... What I think is fair to say about FOX, and certainly the way we view it, is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party....
Take their talking points. Put 'em on the air. Take their opposition research. Put 'em on the air. And that's fine, but let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is."

--ANITA DUNN

ELECTION 2008

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Updated October 22, 2008

"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you, not financially to help him, we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him.

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people. It's time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."

--JOE BIDEN

"[I]f we're trying to win in Florida, it may be that -- you know, they think that because of who I am and where my politic base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the cracker vote there."

--BILL CLINTON

"See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith based... I wanna cut his n-ts off."

--JESSE JACKSON