Quotes of the Month: June 2016

Quote of the Month: "I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers the country to its next destination."
 -David Cameron

Stupid Quote of the Month: “If you have a critique for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.We’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment... ghetto-lyzing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is — just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real."
-Jesse Williams

and the rest...
“From where I stand, I feel pretty strong. I don’t feel like I’ve got a lot of years, but I don’t feel old.”
-Neil Young

“He's written a lot of books about business -- they all seem to end at Chapter 11.”
-Hillary Clinton

 “She’s a world-class liar."
-Donald Trump

"Trump has made his campaign all about his ability to win. So if he stops winning, what’s his raison d’etre?"
-Maureen Dowd

"I don't have a recollection of almost anyone I've hung out with."
-Robert Plant

 "I hope he goes to jail."
-Paul Manziel on his son

"Make sure he loses. Grit [your] teeth for four years and win the White House in
2020."
-George Will
 

Political Quotes of the Year: 2014

Quote of the Year:
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."


-Jonathan Gruber Obamacare Architect

and the rest...

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are hopeless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them with their prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it."


-Mike Huckabee
"He took advantage of a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office. There is no excuse for that, and that is predatory behavior. Someone who takes advantage of a young girl in their office? I mean, really. And then they have the gall to stand up and say, 'Republicans are having a war on women?'"


-Rand Paul

"I didn't have a dad in the house, and I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time. .... I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do."




-Barack Obama



"I can do whatever I want."


-Barack Obama

"Putin's playing chess, we're playing marbles."

-Congressman Mike Rogers

"That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention, and it doesn't make for good argument on Sunday morning shows, but it avoids errors. You hit singles; you hit doubles. Every once in a while, we may be able to hit a home run."


-Barack Obama

"Some presidents take their foreign policy from the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, some from the realism of Henry Kissinger. This is foreign policy from Monty Python."

– George Will on Obama's foreign policy

"I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened."


-Monica Lewinsky
"Mr. President, you love to trade people. Why don’t we set up a trade? But this time, instead of five Taliban, how about five Democrats? I’m thinking John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi; couldn’t we send them to Mexico? "It was a joke. Except for Nancy Pelosi, I was serious about her."

-Rand Paul

"I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived."


-Bill Clinton
"Don't ever second guess me again on Hamas."


-Benjamin Netanyahu to John Kerry and Barack Obama
"They just lied to people."


-Barney Frank on The Obama Administration and health care.
"Israel was using its missiles to protect its children. Hamas was using its children to protect its missiles."


-Benjamin Netanyahu
"One cannot win the war with blankets."


-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
"Most of our Democrat voters aren't aware there's even an election on November 4."


-Barack Obama
"I think we're looking at a 30-year war."


-Leon Panetta on ISIS
"There is a feeling that the president has given up on the big issues facing this country."


-Leon Panetta
"Make no mistake, these policies [of mine] are on the ballot, every single one of them."


-Barack Obama
"This administration has been more dangerous to the press than any in American history."


-Susan Page on the Obama Administration
"Thanks to all of you we are heading to Washington. And we are going to make ‘em squeal."


-Joni Ernst
"Have you met Joe Biden?"


-Trey Gowdy on impeachment
"Iran is not your ally. Iran is not your friend. Iran is your enemy. It's not your partner."


-Benjamin Netanyahu
"The White House elevating Sharpton is insulting to black people."


-Juan Williams
"Obama can tolerate a lot -- cluelessness, incompetence, laziness -- but not criticism."


-Charles Krauthammer

Quotes of the Month: April 2014

Quote of the Month: “So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when (Sterling’s) racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ ”
-Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

Stupid Quote of the Month: "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games."

Clipper Owner Donald Sterling to his girlfriend

Worst Presidential Quote since Carter's "Crisis of Confidence":
"That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention, and it doesn't make for good argument on Sunday morning shows, but it avoids errors. You hit singles; you hit doubles. Every once in a while, we may be able to hit a home run."
-Barack Obama

"Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders, from the fags and the fat girls to the shy nerds and the goth kids in Tennessee and Kentucky, for the rockers to the awkward to the too-smart kids and the bullied. We were a community."
-Michael Stipe

“Again, I can’t thank you enough. All of my best to you and yours and I look forward to working with you throughout this election.”
-Senator Chuck Schumer to the Koch Brothers (2010)

"Chill out."
-Congressman Dave Camp to Sander Levin over the IRS Scandal.

"My goodness, I didn't know solid waste management was so controversial."

-Hillary Clinton after someone tossed a shoe at her

“Some presidents take their foreign policy from the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, some from the realism of Henry Kissinger. This is foreign policy from Monty Python.”

– George Will on Obama's foreign policy

"Con man. He has a way of tricking people, and he tricked a lot of people."

-Adrian Dantley on Isiah Thomas

"They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton."

-Cliven Bundy

Quotes of the Month: January 2014

Quote of the Month: “I'm the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. Don't you open your mouth about the best, or I'll shut it for you real quick."

-Richard Sherman

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Do you understand what he did in this country? No, no, no, you tell me, you tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country, why?"

-Dennis Rodman exploding when asked about a Korean-American held captive in North Korea.

“Political ignorance helps explain Americans’ perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. The elections of 1932 and 1980 dramatically illustrated how voters primarily control politicians — by ‘retrospective voting,’ refusing to reelect them.”

-George Will

 “Do you know what the Geneva agreement means? It means the surrender of the big powers before the great Iranian nation."

-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the nuclear deal

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president. Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president.”

-Barack Obama

“Nobody messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out! #disni—a."

-Madonna

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are hopeless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them with their prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.”

-Mike Huckabee

"He took advantage of a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office. There is no excuse for that, and that is predatory behavior. Someone who takes advantage of a young girl in their office? I mean, really. And then they have the gall to stand up and say, 'Republicans are having a war on women?'"

-Rand Paul

“[President Obama has] given up on being the great uniter – the charismatic president who would bring America together. And now he’s simply trying to hang on for quite small achievements, which I think, in his own eyes, means that he’s a failure.”

– Charles Krauthammer