Quotes of the Month: March 2016

Quote of the Month: ""Today I found myself the subject of an Internet meme. Not for the first time. This one, however, stands out from the rest. In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food. It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. But eating became the one thing I could look forward to. Count on to get me through. There were stretches when the highlight of my week was a favorite meal and a new episode of Top Chef. Sometimes that was enough. Had to be. Now, when I see that image of me in my red t-shirt, a rare smile on my face, I am reminded of my struggle. My endurance and my perseverance in the face of all kinds of demons. Some within. Some without," he says, even if the meme's existence initially took his breath away, in a bad way. "The first time I saw this meme pop up in my social media feed, I have to admit, it hurt to breathe. But as with everything in life, I get to assign meaning. And the meaning I assign to this/my image is Strength. Healing. Forgiveness. Of myself and others."
-Wentworth Miller

Stupid Quote of the Month: “There has to be some form of punishment.”
-Donald Trump on women receiving abortions



 
 And the rest...

“Here's what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.”
-Mitt Romney

"Where Else Could Boy Born in Calgary Run for President of United States?'
-Barack Obama on Ted Cruz

"I hate the business, and I didn't want to have anything to do with it."
-Peter Buck

"We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
-Hillary Clinton

"Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn't lose a single person.”
-Hillary Clinton

“You reap what you sow.”
-Mitch McConnell

"It's not like western countries. It is very strict and no smoking there."
-American ISIS defector

"If you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us.”
-Bill Clinton

"Seriously?"
-Megyn Kelly to Donald Trump

"You're a sniveling coward."
-Ted Cruz to Donald Trump

“She helped create ISIS. I mean, Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.”
-Rudy Giuliani

Quotes of the Month: March 2013

Quote of the Month: “Pray”

-NASA Chief Charles Bolden on what to do if an asteroid was hurdling to Earth

Dumb Quote of the Month: “We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt.”

-Barack Obama

And the rest…

“Nero is fiddling.”

-Mitt Romney on Barack Obama’s handling of the economy

“We all know it's going to end badly, but in the meantime we can make some money."

- Jim Cramer on the Stock surge

“President Obama’s behavior in this business about the automatic budget cuts — this itself is the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president.”

-Britt Hume

“Biden is dumb as an ashtray.”

-Roger Ailes

“Obama’s the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn’t public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time. He’s lazy, but the media won’t report that.”

-Roger Ailes

“I will speak until I can no longer speak.”

-Rand Paul beginning a marathon old school filibuster

“Please don’t let me die.”

-Hugo Chavez

 “arbitrary and capricious”

-Justice Milton Tingling on the New York soda ban

“A man who calmly stands for what’s right and just.”

-CARDINAL EGAN ON POPE FRANCIS I

"It's not Detroit versus Michigan. It's Detroit, Michigan."

 -GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER

“Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama: You lie!”

-Sarah Palin

“We don’t have leadership coming out of Washington. We have reality television.”

-Sarah Palin

“More background checks?  Dandy idea, Mr. President. Shoulda started with yours.”

-Sarah Palin

'I would like to see a church that is poor and is for the poor'

 -Pope Francis I

"The biggest problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is that they are financial institutions with a social mission,"

-Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste.

Political Quotes of the Year 2012

Quote of the Year:

"There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."

-Mitt Romney

Dumb Quote of the Year:

“If you got a business-you didn’t build that.”

Barack Obama referring to things businesses built or helped build

And the rest…

"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it.”

-Mitt Romney

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

-Rush Limbaugh on Sandra Fluke

"There seems to be something "liberating" about ignorance -- especially when you

don't even know enough to realize how little you know. Thus an administration

loaded with people who have never run any business is gung-ho to tell businesses

what to do, as well as gung-ho to tell the medical profession what to do,

lenders whom to lend to, and the military how to fight wars."

-Thomas Sowell

"We got a problem because we've got a president who's all foam and no beer."

-Tim Pawlenty

“College graduates should not live out their twenties in their childhood bedrooms staring at faded Obama posters.”

-Paul Ryan

“Unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.”

-Joe Biden to African Americans

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

-Todd Akin

"A new survey out today shows how much time we waste every day in our lives. For example, we waste seven minutes in line every time we go to get coffee, 28 minutes getting through airport security, four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy. Every year, we waste a lot. We wasted a lot of time."

-Jay Leno

 “But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road, because you know in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam.”

-Barack Obama on the assassination of the American ambassador to Libya

"President [Barack] Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

-Clint Eastwood

Do we see sometimes us going overboard in our campaign, are there mistakes that are made, areas where there is no doubt that somebody could dispute how we are presenting things? You know, that happens in politics."

-Barack Obama admitting to lying about Romney.　

"I don't think we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy.”

-Barack Obama on Egypt (Later corrected by the State Dept).

Do you want Barack Obama to be re-elected? Then don’t vote for Ron Paul.’

-Paul Ryan

“Thank God for Hurricane Sandy!”

-Chris Mathews

"There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president."

-Joe Biden

"Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that. Of course, not just that, but why not? After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. He came home with some bacon. That's what you do."

-JoAnn Watson embarrassing Detroit once more

"There will be blood."

-Democratic State Senator Douglas Geiss

Quotes of the Month: December 2012

Quote of the Month: "Jack, you are my best friend. We had fun together. I will miss you. I will talk to you in my prayers. I love you Jack. Love, John."

-One of Jack Pinto’s classmates

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Is he a brother or a cornball brother?  We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, I've got black skin, but don't call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on."

-Rob Parker on RGIII

And the rest:

"Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that. Of course, not just that, but why not? After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. He came home with some bacon. That's what you do."

-JoAnn Watson embarrassing Detroit once more

"There will be blood."

-Democratic State Senator Douglas Geiss

“But I’ve got to say, if it rains in London, you’ve got to come and help us, OK?”

-Mick Jagger at the 121212 concert for Sandy Relief

“Get a ****in’ beer!”

-Pete Townshend at the 121212 concert for Sandy Relief

“He had no desire., If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention."

-Tagg Romney

 “Put the harps back in the closet.”

-George H.W. Bush following reports of his impending death

Quotes of the Month: November 2012

Quote of the Month:

"I remember when I went to the ownership meetings in Colorado in August, and I was walking back from dinner with Tony La Russa (retired Cardinals manager) and we're talking about statistics and about WAR. And, no offense to the player, but when I woke up that morning they had on the (ESPN.com) site that Darwin Barney that day was ranked ahead of Miguel Cabrera in WAR. And I don't mean anything against Darwin Barney, but there wasn't a person in Major League Baseball who on that particular day would have traded Miguel Cabrera for Darwin Barney. So, when people say WAR is all-encompassing, that loses the argument to me right there."

-Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski

Stupid Quote of the month:

“Thank God for Hurricane Sandy!”

-Chris Mathews

And the rest…

“All white folks are going to hell.”

-Rev Joseph Lowery

"There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president."

-Joe Biden

 “Obamacare is the law of the land.”

-John Boehner

“Israel has opened the gates of hell.”

-Qassam Brigade

“I thought you were going to win, then the hurricane happened, and gave the president a chance to be presidential, and to look bipartisan.”

-Bill Clinton to Mitt Romney

“Our Lord and savior Barack Obama.”

-Jamie Foxx

Quotes of the Month: October 2012

Quote of the Month: “She certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up.”

-Paul McCartney on Yoko Ono

Stupid Quote of the Month:

"We know that Pakistan has arrested the doctor who helped us catch Obama-uh-bin Laden."

-Bob Schieffer

And the rest…

“How they can justify . . . raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?”

-Joe Biden

“Hope is not a strategy.”

-Mitt Romney

“It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people.”

-Former Clinton aide Neera Tanden on Barack Obama

"The president's remarks are brought to you by the letter O and the number 16 trillion."

-Mitt Romney

“Actually Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name.”

-Barack Obama

Quotes of the Month: September 2012

Quote of the Month: "A new survey out today shows how much time we waste every day in our lives. For example, we waste seven minutes in line every time we go to get coffee, 28 minutes getting through airport security, four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy. Every year, we waste a lot. We wasted a lot of time."

-Jay Leno

 

Stupid Quote of the Month: “But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road, because you know in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam.”

-Barack Obama on the assassination of the American ambassador to Libya

 

“There are authoritarian figures that can explain that kind of art form better to you than I can. It's called songwriting. It has to do with melody and rhythm, and then after that, anything goes. You make everything yours. We all do it.”

-Bob Dylan

 

"President [Barack] Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

-Clint Eastwood

"There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."

-Mitt Romney

"Do we see sometimes us going overboard in our campaign, are there mistakes that are made, areas where there is no doubt that somebody could dispute how we are presenting things? You know, that happens in politics."

-Barack Obama admitting to lying about Romney.　

"I don't think we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy.”

-Barack Obama on Egypt (Later corrected by the State Dept).

‘Do you want Barack Obama to be re-elected? Then don’t vote for Ron Paul.’

-Paul Ryan

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

-Barack Obama

Quotes of the Month: August 2012

Quote of the Month:

“College graduates should not live out their twenties in their childhood bedrooms staring at faded Obama posters.”

-Paul Ryan

Stupid Quotes of the Month:

“Unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.”

-Joe Biden to African Americans

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

-Todd Akin

Slam of the Month:

"She's such a nightmare. Her career is over, I can tell you that. She looks like a fairground stripper."

-Elton John

And the rest:

"She's a trampire!"

-Will Ferrell

"There’s disobedience and there’s obedience to God. I’ve been being disobedient."

-Josh Hamilton

"We got a problem because we’ve got a president who’s all foam and no beer."

-Tim Pawlenty

"So Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America."

-Mitt Romney

"That's because he's intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy."

-Mitt Romney

“Was he talking about slavery? You bet your ass he was. Was he using the vernacular? Yes, he was. Did he think it was cute? Yes, he did. Was it something stupid to say? You bet your life it was stupid.”

-Charles Rangel on Joe Biden’s “chains” comments

"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised."

-Mitt Romney

Quotes of the Month: May 2012

Quote of the Month:
"You came home and were
 sometimes denigrated when you should have been celebrated. It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened."

-Barack Obama to Vietnam Vets on Memorial Day

Stupid Quote of the Month:

“I was trying to hit him.”

-Cole Hamels after hitting Bryce Harper

Insult of the Month:

“Barack Obama is an amateur.”

-Bill Clinton
　

“Even Jimmy Carter would have killed Bin Laden.”

-Mitt Romney

“Forward, what, over a cliff?”

-Mitt Romney on Barack Obama’s new slogan

"I'm coming back. Write it down in big letters. I'm not going out like this."

-Mariano Rivera

"I spend my off days the way I want to spend them."

- Josh Beckett

“Loyalty doesn’t exist in politics.”

-Bill Clinton

“I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

-Barack Obama

“I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again."

-Jason Werth on Philadelphia fans

"I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war."

-Chris Hayes MSNBC Host dissing vets

Quotes of the Month: April 2012

Quote of the Month: “My heart will always be in Detroit -- 100 percent and forever."

-Brandon Inge
　

Dumb Quote of the Month 1: "I believe that it is part of our solemn responsibility to future generations that we look after this planet; that we make sure our air is clean and our water is clean; that we’re not poisoning our kids."

-Barack Obama
Dumb Quote of the Month 2: “His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.”

-Dem Strategist Hilary Rosen on Ann Romney
And the rest…

“Truth is stronger than lies.”

-Pope Benedict 16
"I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys.”

-Ann Romney
"So let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense."

-Axl Rose
“I love Fidel Castro.”

--Ozzie Guillen

"If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

-Ted Nugent
“A better America begins tonight.”

-Mitt Romney

Quotes of the Month: February 2012

Quote of the Month: 

"It's not much different to being 109."

-WWI Vet Florence Green on what it’s like being 110

Dumb Quote of the Month:
“Obama‘s ideology is based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”

-Rick Santorum


"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it.”

-Mitt Romney

“My husband can not throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”

-Gisele

“And Randy, not like any other superstar I've met, he has more quit in him than any of those other players.

-Cris Carter on Randy Moss

“I wish management would come out and either trade [Pau Gasol] or not trade him."

-Kobe

“Satan [has been] attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition."

-Rick Santorum

Quotes of the Month: January 2012

Quote of the Month:

"The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton, actually. But a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker. And more easily bought."

-Ricky Gervais

Dumb Quote of the Month:

“The Giants are on their way to the Superbowl.”

-Joe Biden trying to fire up the 49ers.

"I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of til death do we part."

-Mitt Romney on Barack Obama

“Can we drop all this pious baloney?”

-Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney

"There are a number of lines Romney could use: 'Yeah, I love firing people, but I never fired a wife on her deathbed.'"

-Rush Limbaugh

"By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon. And it will be American.”

-Newt Gingrich

"Mr. President -- you were elected to lead, you chose to follow, and now it's time for you to get out of the way."

-Mitt Romney