great quotes

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

That is the correct timing. He began to write that paper at Zurich in schooland published shortly after.

boggsman1 · Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 9120 Location: at a computer

"Deficits don't matter"
Dick Cheney
"Deficits don't matter, UNLESS a democrat is in power"
Boggsman

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.'" — George W. Bush, Nashville, Tennessee; September 17, 2002

mac · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:51 pm Post subject:

If we want to go foot in the mouth style, this is one of my favorites:

"We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know." —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department briefing, Fe. 12, 2002

But then there are dozens of Bush-isms, see http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/georgewbush/a/bush-era-quotes.htm

Or we can go back to Ronnie Raygun:

"Facts are stupid things." ~ Ronald Reagan

The motto for the Tea party, eh?

or:

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries" ~ Ronald Reagan

Or the man who taught the Republicans how to offend women:

''Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.'' ~ Rush Limbaugh

With his Ginnie come-lately friend:

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.'' ~ Ann Coulter

At least she got it right--if they can just stop the women, the minorities, and the young from voting they can win again! And maybe they'll again nominate:

"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" ~ Sarah Palin

Oh there are so many to choose from, it's hard to pick the most insightful.

J64TWB · Joined: 24 Dec 2013 Posts: 1685

As long as we are in the sewer pipe Mac...How about this vile one.

“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the niggar race into our theaters into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."

Strom Thurmond (Republican Governor of South Carolina 1948)

J64TWB · Joined: 24 Dec 2013 Posts: 1685

On a lighter note

"If you ever accidentally drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone”.

Jack Handy

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
- Jean de La Fontaine

mac · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:01 pm Post subject:

Careful, you're talking about the South that Mike Fick so loved!

techno900 · Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 4161

Why go for the political dumb stuff, there's plenty on both sides of the aisle that doesn't need to be rehashed.

You know - "52 states"; " depends on what the definition of is is", etc.

Let's go for what we think are meaningful, outside of politics.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

This one's too easy:
1. Google <1,000 quotations>.
2. Click on the first hit.
3. Select All.
4. Copy.
5. Paste.
6. Repeat steps 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the next 40 pages of such hits, 'til we bring iW's server crashing to earth. (I suggest bypassing that "3 million quotations" site.)
7. Enjoy.