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| JohnSmith |
Post quotes you've heard, any political themed ones anyway. I'll start:
| quote: | "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the
nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-
soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine
any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that
the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain (1916) |
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| rizen |
oh eye see :D
btw anyone know if the so called US inspectors sent to Iraq after the war have come back home empty handed? I heard it on a talk radio show the other night, but havnt looked up on it to see if its true or not. |
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| ahlamalek |
^^^its true, even Bush himself said it.
anyways here's my quote of the day: I just read in adbusters.
"We're not in the buisness of providing news and information"
"We're not in the buisness of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the buisness of selling our customers products"
-Lowry Mays CEO Clear Channel (owns 1200 radio stations in the US)
Clear channel got big because, with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the US congress reworte the rules governing who could own what in the media market.
The rewrite eliminated limits on the number of radio stations that could be owned by one corporation, Clear Channels portfolio passed from 40 stations in 1995 to more than 1200 today. |
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| Eugene |
"It's easy to be anti-American. But for all its problems, America still stands for a lot of good in this world."
- Tony Blair |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| quote: | "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
-George W. Bush on June 14, 2001 (speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling) |
| quote: | In reply to the question of What's your favorite childhood book?, George replied: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." However, this book wasn't even published until George was one year out of college.
-10.17.99 in The Arizona Republic |
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| DrummeRaver86 |
This isn't really a political quote, but still a good one by George W. See if you can figure out what it means...:conf:
"I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't."
President George W. Bush, on the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights
And no, there were no transscription errors, that quote is real....:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| rizen |
| quote: | Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
-George W. Bush on June 14, 2001 (speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling) |
Is there a video of that? i would love to show that to my friend of mine whos a bush sheep. but then again hell probaly saw it was edited :( |
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| Galapidate |
| ^Yeah, or at least a tape recording. |
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| torontotrance |
Richie Hawtin on DJ Mix Albums
It's like a business card, you know like "Here I am, book me for a gig, can I get some more money please!" That's kind of disappointing to me. |
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| Kamui |
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, 1755
applies at so many levels to all these bills the goverment is passing to keep us "safe" from those bad terrorist |
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| Renegade |
Straight out of Bookshelf 94 :p :
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible."
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
"I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics."
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
- Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist
Some none Bookshelf ones:
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
- Thomas Jefferson
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
- Thomas Jefferson
"Fiftyone percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
- Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
- Bertrand de Jouvenal
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
- Maria Montessori
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
- Charles de Gaulle
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell
And while we're on the topic of the US and WMDs :D :
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- Dick Cheney (26/08/02)
"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes."
- Ari Fleisher (21/03/03)
"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
- Donald Rumsfeld (30/03/03)
"We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country."
- Donald Rumsfeld (04/05/03)
"It was a surprise to me then — it remains a surprise to me now — that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there."
- Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (30/05/03)
(WMD Timeline Quote -here-) |
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| trintiy |
| “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” -- Julius Caesar is attributed with offering this. |
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