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: 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

Political Quotes of the Year: 2015

Quote of the Year: "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they dorespect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find itsfulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
-Anthony Kennedy in Obergefell v Hodges (2015)

Quote of the Year (runner up): "To me, especially in the Northeast, confronting my white privilege is going to the tanning salon."
-Katie Pavlich

Reality Check: "On the world stage, I think [Obama's accomplishments] have been minimal. But on the world stage, just to be objective about it, I can't think of many nations in the world where we have a better relationship now than when he took over."
-Jimmy Carter

And the rest...
"Congratulations to the president for turning a two year recession into a six year one."
-Kimberly Gilfoyle

“To state the obvious, the past six years have been really, really hard for this country.”
-Joe Biden

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America."
-Rudy Giuliani

"Poor people have been voting Democratic for 50 years, and they're still poor."
-Charles Barkley

"What I dream is that for one election ... every black person in America vote Republican."
-Stephen A Smith

"Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President."
-John McCain

"we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well."
-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

"There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage."
-Ted Cruz

“If Sue loves Joe and Tom loves Joe, Sue can marry Joe but Tom cannot,  why isn’t that a straightforward case of sexual discrimination?”
-John Roberts

“When will the media ask @BarackObama & @HillaryClinton key question for 2016- Knowing what we know now, would you still have abandoned Iraq?”
-Liz Cheney

"Let's be honest: Some black lives really don't matter. If you are a young black man shot in the head by another young black man, almost certainly no one will know your name. Al Sharpton won't come rushing to your family's side with cameras in tow. MSNBC won't discuss the significance of your death. No one will protest, or even riot, for you. You are a statistic, not a cause. Just another dead black kid, politically useless to progressives and the media, therefore all but invisible."
-Rich Lowry

"I won't be the youngest president, but with your help I'll be the youngest female president."
-Hillary Clinton

"Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being
polite to say [n-word] in public."
-Barack Obama

“We should start calling this law SCOTUScare."
-Antonin Scalia on King v Burwell (2015)

"The Iran deal will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”
-Mike Huckabee
"What a stunning historic mistake!"
-Benjamin Netanyahu on the Iran nuclear deal

"What is the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?"
-Chris Matthews

“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

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

“We don’t need an apprentice in the White House. We have one right now.”
-Scott Walker

"LGBT community (GGGG) are like the gay white KKK's. Get them some pink hoods and unicorns and let them rally down rodeo drive."
-Azealia Banks

"If you vote to send billions of dollars to jihadists who have pledged to bear direct responsibility to murder Americans, then you bear direct responsibility for the murders carried out with the dollars you have given them. You cannot wash your hands of that blood."
-Ted Cruz on the Iran deal

“Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.” .
-Benjamin Netanyahu

"We Live in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter"
-Charles Krauthammer

“I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.”
- Hillary Clinton

“You can tell the Egyptian prime minister it’s a terrorist attack, but you can’t tell your own people?”
-Jim Jordan to Hillary Clinton

"I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that."
-Jeb Bush

"Hillary is running for a lot of reasons—one of ‘em is because she wants to stay out of jail."
-Donald Trump

"Why can't we take out these bastards?"
-Reporter to Obama

"She's killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity."
-Donald Trump on Hillary

"This president won't be the same feckless weakling that we have in the Oval Office right now."
-Chris Christie

"Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate."
-Donald Trump

“She was favored to win and she got schlonged."
-Donald Trump

Quotes of the Month: October 2015

Quote of the Month: "We Live in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter"
-Charles Krauthammer

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

And the rest...
"If I don't move, I'll be demoted to Secretary of State or something."
-Joe Biden

"What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide?"
- Rupert Murdoch

"I'm really not even a human being."
-Hillary Clinton

“I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.”
- Hillary Clinton

"We may have overestimated his anger management skills."
-Megyn Kelly on Donald Trump

“I just don’t like the guy.”
-George W Bush on Ted Cruz

"The acoustic guitar is the most important."
-Keith Richards

“You can tell the Egyptian prime minister it’s a terrorist attack, but you can’t tell your own people?”
-Jim Jordan to Hillary Clinton

"I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that."
-Jeb Bush

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

“I’ve got to tell you the truth — even in New Jersey what you’re doing is called rude.”
-Chris Christie to the CNBC Moderator

“That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.”
-Ted Cruz

Quotes of the Month: September 2015

Quote of the Month: “We don’t need an apprentice in the White House. We have one right now.”
-Scott Walker

Stupid Quote of the Month: "LGBT community (GGGG) are like the gay white KKK's. Get them some pink hoods and unicorns and let them rally down rodeo drive."
-Azealia Banks

and the rest...
"I have signed the pledge."
-Donald Trump

"I'm sorry about that."
-Hillary Clinton on the email scandal

"If you vote to send billions of dollars to jihadists who have pledged to bear direct responsibility to murder Americans, then you bear direct responsibility for the murders carried out with the dollars you have given them. You cannot wash your hands of that blood."
-Ted Cruz on the Iran deal

"Four years ago, I made a serious mistake — one that brought discredit on me and pain to those closest to me."
-David Petraeus

"Call off your fucking dogs Barack."
-Hillary Clinton

"It's become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution."
-John Boehner

"Beware of false prophets."
-John Boehner


"It won't happen again."
-Barack Obama on Chinese hacks

“Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.” .
-Benjamin Netanyahu

"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

 "I'll keep going as long as I'm physically able."
-Daniel Craig

Quotes of the Month: November 2014

Quote of the Month: "Thanks to all of you we are heading to Washington. And we are going to make ‘em squeal."


-Joni Ernst

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Burn this bitch down."

-Michael Brown's stepfather

A rare burst of honesty:

"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...

"I just took action to change the law."


-Barack Obama to immigration hecklers

"I don't care if she's as good looking as Taylor Swift or as nice as Mr. Rogers,

but if she votes like Michele Bachmann, she's wrong for the state of Iowa."


-Tom Harkin on Joni Ernst

"The Era of Obama Lawlessness is over."


-Ted Cruz


 "God, I’m going to sound like a grumpy old man. Modern music, to me, is very formulaic."


-David Gilmour

"Unapologetically, this is for the generation that wants to put its headphones on, lie in a beanbag, or whatever, and get off on a piece of music for an extended period of time. You could say it’s not for the iTunes, downloading-individual-tracks generation."


-David Gilmour on the new Pink Floyd album

"I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president; I think it's bad for the presidency for that matter."


-George W Bush

"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

 

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

Quotes of the Month: September 2013

Quote of the Month: "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

Stupid Quote of the Month: “She is older than her chronological age” she was ”as much in control of the situation.”

-Judge G. Todd Baugh on a 14-year-old rape victim

And the Rest…

"I would think the mayor of a city that recently experienced a deadly bombing attack would be more sensitive and not use the phrase 'blow up.'"

-Mayor Bing about the Mayor of Boston's comments about Detroit

"Some people could find a flaw in Bo Derek,”

-Jim Leyland on Max Scherzer’s idiotic critics

"And as RKK would say, if you're a turd, it's going to come back to you."

-Tom Brady on Johnny Manziel

"Let Allah sort it out."

-Sarah Palin on Syria

"Kerry can be forgiven for being at odds with the president. The president, in the space of his 16-minute address, was often at odds with himself... Nuance can sound a lot like a muddle."

-Dana Milbank

"This has been one of the most humiliating episodes in presidential history.”

-Anonymous Democratic Strategist on Obama’s Syria policy.

"If you don't comply, it is treason."

-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

“They see it as an act of provocative weakness on America's part.”

-Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Obama’s Syria deal

"It is extremely unrealistic, to presume that the peaceful nature of the nuclear program of Iran could be ensured through impeding the program via illegitimate pressures.”

-Iranian President Hassan Rowhani

“It’s on the president’s head, he’s got to lead, he’s got to talk.”

-Bob Woodward on the debt ceiling and failure of the CR