Quotes of the Month: February 2016

Quote of the Month: "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President."
-Donald Trump

Stupid Quote of the Month: "They know how to distinguish male from female. If we approve male on male, female on female, then man is worse than animals."
-Manny Pacquiao

and the rest...

“Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he illegally stole it.”
-Donald Trump

“Yet another #Trumpertantrum... @realDonaldTrump very angry w/the people of Iowa.”
-Ted Cruz

"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other!"
-Madeleine Albright

"Henry Kissinger is not my friend."
-Bernie Sanders

"I say only that this man is not Christian."
-Pope Francis I

"I don't believe I ever have.  I don't believe I ever have.  I don't believe I ever will.  I'm gonna do the best I can to level with the American people."
-Hillary Clinton on lying

“He was, you know, raised white."
-Ben Carson on Barack Obama

Stupid Quotes of 2015

Quote of the Year: ''You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."
-Donald Trump on Megyn Kelly

Quote of the Year (Runner Up): "I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them."
-Barack Obama one day before the Paris attacks

Typo of the Year: …”she’s fought children and families all her career.”
-Hillary Clinton presidential announcement

And the rest:
"We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. "
-Michael Moore

"You have to be careful about drinking around me."
-Bill Cosby

“Because Michael, face it -- the guy was basically average in terms of size, strength, speed, jumping ability, all the things that you seem to think make a great player.”
-Bill Walton on Michael Jordan

"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place,
remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible
deeds in the name of Christ."
-Barack Obama at the 2015-national-prayer-breakfast

"Well, watch out, you know that Michelle Obama looks like she's from the cast of 'Planet of the Apes,' the movie."
-Rodner Figueroa

"Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution."
-Rep. Alcee Hastings

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best ... they're sending
people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're
bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are
good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're
getting,"
-Donald Trump

“If you are a white man in America, this country is changing dramatically. You have always been in charge. So there is something to white men feeling like something has been taken away from them.”
-Annonymous White House Official quoted in Washington Post
"I identify with black."
-Rachel Dolezal

"It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters.”
-Fredericka Whitfield on the attack on Dallas Police HQ
"I like people that weren't captured."
-Donald Trump

"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought."
-Kevin McCarthy

“If only there was a ‘coon of the year’ award."
-Professor Anthea Butler on Ben Carson

There's something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn't to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people."
-John Kerry

"I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
-Quentin Tarantino on police officers

“The terrible events in Paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback.”
-Barack Obama

Quotes of the Year: 2015

Quote of the Year : "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
-Leonard Nimoy

Quote of the Year (Runner Up): "America has shown to me as an immigrant, that it is the land of opportunity. And I appreciate America so much and this is why it was so important for me to give something back. And we have to keep it the #1 country in the world. So I want to say thank you to America; that you have given me everything that I have."
-Arnold Schwartzenegger

And the rest...
"As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again."
-Bono

"What we've said all along, and have been called bigots for it, is when there's this many bad apples, there's something wrong with the orchard."
Bill Maher on Islam

"The interesting thing about Mulder is nominally he is law enforcement but he never solved one case in nine years. So he’s the worst F.B.I. agent of all time."
-David Duchovny

"Fuck you Eddie Van Halen."
-Sammy Hagar

"Whatever you think of Reagan, you have to admit, he had a black belt in badassery."
-Brad Meltzer

"It was all this contemporary music geared for that audience, and it was so disappointing listening to it. Really weak songwriting, insipid vocals and productions. It was really discouraging. I was sorry to hear that. You're waiting for something to happen, musically. You're waiting for some great thing. Like every generation or every decade seemed to have that big thing that carried it through. There's nothing now, at least in rock."

-Alex Liefson

"I felt like I was in a period-piece sometimes. Because I could hear echoes or
sensations of Connery or of Roger, which I didn't try to censor; I'd just allow
them to come in."
-Pierce Brosnan

"Some people think it's a genius album, but I think it's a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like '(Their) Satanic Majesties.'”
-Keith Richards on Sgt. Pepper's

“I’m the only one to separate Siamese twins.”
-Ben Carson

"Calm people live. Tense people die."
-Adam Savage

“Don’t be a slave like I was.”
-Carrie Fisher

Quotes of the Month: August 2015

Quote of the Month: “Don’t cry.”

-Rhonda Rousey to Bethe Correia after knocking her out

Stupid Quote of the Month: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

-Donald Trump on Megyn Kelly

And the rest...
"Some people think it's a genius album, but I think it's a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like '(Their) Satanic Majesties.'”
-Keith Richards on Sgt. Pepper's

“I’m the only one to separate Siamese twins.”
-Ben Carson

“She counts on the fact that people are uninformed. The Alinsky model, taking advantage of useful idiots.”
-Ben Carson

“I think God has blessed us, he’s blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.”
-Marco Rubio

“I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes.”
-Jimmy Carter on his cancer diagnosis

"Just in case y'all not going to decide to do the right thing, if y'all got a crew, you got to have a fall guy in the crew."
-Chris Carter

"The darkness from a decade ago has lifted, the Crescent City has risen again, and its best days lie ahead."
-George W Bush