Archive for September, 2007

“I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account
that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they
have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or
maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home.”
– Hillary Clinton at a forum hosted by the
Congressional Black Caucus, September 28, 2007

“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because
human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”
– Jimmy Carter at the White House commemorating
the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, December 1978

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans -
unless they have too much education and vote Democratic,
which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”
– Karl Rove in a statement to author Nicholas Lemann
of The New Yorker, published February 19, 2001

“Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your
testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that
you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.”
– Senator Hillary Clinton questioning General David Petraeus about Iraq
at a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, September 11, 2007

“I just wish Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing
else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn’t have rescued them.”
– Bill O’Reilly on his radio show, Sept. 14, 2005