Thursday, May 1, 2014

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


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