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12 Reasons why Same-Sex Marriage will Ruin Society (humor) "The Constitution says that all men are created equal, and it doesn't say that all men are created equal except for gays. Just like everyone else who is born in this country, gays are endowed by their creator, God, with inalienable rights, and among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At birth, whether your are born in Russia, Cuba, South America, or New York, you are born equal. The difference is that our [American] babies grow up to live free." - Barry Goldwater, 1993. |
archives: quotes
2004
JUN 11 :: [reagan v bush] "Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. True, after he was shot and nearly killed early in his presidency he came to believe that God had spared him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that as a responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference." - Ron Reagan Jr. at his father's funeral MAY 4 :: [dehumanizing nature of occupation] "Once it could not find weapons of mass destruction to justify its invasion of Iraq, the administration of US President George W Bush claimed that the liberation of Iraqis from the most inhumane rule of a dictator was a good enough reason for taking military action against that country. Now reports of the US military's abuse of Iraqi prisoners in that notorious prison threaten to deprive the United States of even that wobbly claim." - Ehsan Ahrari, Asia Times APR 8 :: the iraqi inversion APR 7 :: [dump him] "The only unequivocally good policy option before the American people is to dump the president who got us into this mess, who had no trouble sending our young people to Iraq but who cannot steel himself to face the Sept. 11 commission alone." - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post columnist APR 6 :: [impeach bush] "When you plunge our country into war on a platform of fabrications and deceptions, and you bring back thousands of American soldiers who are sick, injured or dead, and that war is unconstitutionally authorized to begin with, Mr. Bush's behavior qualifies for the high crimes and misdemeanor impeachment clause of the Constitution." - Ralph Nader, Independent Presidential Candidate APR 6 :: [the buck doesn't stop] "Terrorism, not missile defense, should have been the top priority; al Qaeda was and remains the threat, not Iraq. (That explains why Saddam Hussein is in jail while bin Laden is still on the loose, having slipped the noose in Afghanistan because the Pentagon left the job to locals.) Iraq was going to be a cakewalk -- the Middle Eastern version of the liberation of Paris -- and somehow that has not happened. In another country, some officials would quit in shame. In this one they can't even quit being smug." - Richard Cohen, Washington Post Columnist MAR 26 :: the wrong war MAR 22 :: [the body] "Love is bigger than government." - Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota FEB 10 :: the 'm-word' JAN 1 :: HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2003
DEC 28 :: [compassionate conservatism] "The conservative part is a stern and sometimes intrusive government to regulate the citizenry, but with a hands-off attitude toward business. The compassionate end involves some large federal programs combined with unending sympathy for the demands of special interests." - NY Times NOV 21 :: [unilateralism] "Every American president must do what is necessary to defend the security of the United States, even when close allies disagree. Mr. Bush, however, has embraced unilateralism not as an extraordinary policy option, but as his dominant international theme. Compounding that error could leave America increasingly alone and increasingly endangered." - New York Times Opinion SEP 23 :: [oui chirac] "In an open world, no one can live in isolation, no one can act alone in the name of all, and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. There is no alternative to the United Nations." - Jacques Chirac [annan on unilateralism] "This [pre-emptive strike] logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last fifty-eight years. My concern is that, if it were to be adopted, it could set precedents that resulted in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification." - Kofi Annan SEP 17 :: [bush lied... again] "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11 attacks." SEP 5 :: [well put] "All the world knows about the Iraq about-face: having squandered our military strength in a war he felt like fighting even though it had nothing to do with terrorism, President Bush is now begging the cheese-eaters and chocolate-makers to rescue him. What may not be equally obvious is that he's doing the same thing on the economic front. Having squandered his room for economic maneuver on tax cuts that pleased his party base but had nothing to do with job creation, Mr. Bush is now asking China to help him out." - New York Times SEP 3 :: [two years later] "As September 11 nears once again, it is a tragic irony that the spirit of multilateralism that the 9/11 terrorist attacks created has over two years dissipated, thanks to the U.S. assertion of unilateralist pre-emption. And the world is the poorer and destabilized as a result." - The News International (Pakistan) AUG 7 :: [al gore @ MoveOn.org] "Americans have always believed that we the people have a right to know the truth and that the truth will set us free." "...we must stand for a future in which the United States will again be feared only by our enemies; in which our country will again lead the effort to create an international order based on the rule of law; a nation which upholds fundamental rights even for those it believes to be captured enemies..." AUG 5 :: [delegitimization of violence] "The imperative for successful nation-building is not the brutal and public demonstration of the mortality of defeated dictators but a principled rejection of their methods. Most important is the delegitimization of violence as a means to obtain political goals, in part through the creation of a system of justice that is not administered at the point of a gun but is based on individual rights and due process." - Washington Post FEB 6 :: "I would say to you, Prime Minister, that [if] the war is to get rid of a despotic dictator who has no real democratic mandate, who's very destabilizing, who commits human rights violations -- Is Mr. Bush next perhaps?" - Transcript of PM of UK Tony Blair's Iraq interview on Newsnight OCT 18 2000 :: [West Wing Episode #25: The Midterms] BARTLET: I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an "abomination" JACOBS: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does. BARTLET: Yes it does. Leviticus. JACOBS: 18:22. BARTLET: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I wanted to sell my youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown Sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? BARTLET: While thinking about that, can I ask another? My chief of staff, Leo McGary, insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? Or is it okay to call the police? BARTLET: Here's one that's really important, because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing. While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building when the president stands, nobody sits. |
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