Political Quotes of the Year: 2013

Quote of the Year: “Go fuck yourself.”

-John Boehner to Harry Reid

And

“I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it."

-Young Woman quoted in an LA Times story that saw her premiums increase 50%

Stupid Quote of the Year: “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

 -Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC

Lie of the Year: “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.”

-Barack Obama

Slam of the Year: "Sadly, Harry Reid has again revealed himself to be an idiot, this time gravely insulting Gulf Coast residents."

-Senator David Vitter

 “What difference does it make?”

-Hillary Clinton on Benghazi

 “The people of New Orleans and that area, they were hurt, but nothing in comparison to what happened to the people in New York and New Jersey.”

-Senator Harry Reid

"Spread your legs, you’re gonna be frisked.”

-Joe Biden to Senator Heidi Heitkamp

 “I’m proud to be President of the United States.”

-Joe Biden

“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.”

-Barack Obama

"Death panels and sales taxes is how we do this."

-Paul Krugman

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

-Rand Paul beginning a marathon old school filibuster

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

 -GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER

"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.

"There was a time in my life when I wasn't likely to be found at a library, much less found one."

 -George W Bush

“I’m not the same Muslim Socialist I used to be.”

-Barack Obama

"The truth of the matter is, Barack knows it, I know, had the economy not collapsed around your ears, John, in the middle of literally--as things were moving--I think you probably would have won.”

-Joe Biden

"The law is irrelevant."

 -Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer

"I've heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I've heard from Obama," Klein stated from various sources close to the Obama administration. "I have no relationship with the president -- none whatsoever. Obama doesn't know how to be president. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!"

-Bill Clinton

“The IRS has ruled Obama can write off the first half of his second term as a total loss.”

-Jay Leno

"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."

-Barack Obama (Martin was not raised by rich white parents)

“The only racism on that night was perpetrated by Trayvon Martin, and everybody knows it."

-Ted Nugent

“Enough was enough.”

-Governor Rick Snyder on Detroit

"Federal Election Commission can't do anything about it; they want the IRS to fix the problem. 'So everybody is screaming at us right now, 'Fix it now before the election. Can't you see how much these people are spending?'"

-Lois Lerner on Tea Party Groups

"The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity."

-John Kerry

"I'll tell you the difference with Green Eggs and Ham is when Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare either. They did not like Obamacare in a box with a fox, in a house or with a mouse."

-Senator Ted Cruz

 “Why would we want to help one kid with cancer?”

-Harry Reid

 “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”

-Park Ranger on his orders from the White House

“How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?”

-John Boehner

"You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery."

-Dr. Ben Carson

“This is not a historic agreement, it’s a historic mistake.”

-Benjamin Netanyahu

"It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who -- all of a sudden -- their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary."

-Arne Duncan

"Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago."

-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on when he tried crack cocaine.

"Honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got."

-Bill Clinton to Barack Obama

“We thought he was going to be the next Messiah.”

-Barbara Walters on Barack Obama

“Embrace the suck.”

-Nancy Pelosi

"This isn't a wrinkle, it's a trainwreck."

-Charles Krauthammer on Obamacare

"I think I just became the first president to ever publicly mention Area 51."

-Barack Obama

"I think they're misleading their followers. I think they're pushing our members in places where they don't want to be. And frankly, I just think that they've lost all credibility by opposing legislation before the details are known."

-John Boehner