“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have
come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”

– Ronald Reagan commenting at a business
conference in Los Angeles, March 2, 1977 

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American
who is articulate and bright and clean and a
nice-looking guy… I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

– Joe Biden evaluating Barack Obama in
the New York Observer, February 2007

“We just want Jews to be perfected, as
they say… That’s what Christianity is.”

– Ann Coulter in an interview on
CNBC’s The Big Idea, October 8, 2007

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

– Bill Clinton in his 1998 grand jury testimony 
about the Monica Lewinsky affair

“Of all the things that can happen in this
world, we’ll be prepared for that. Yes we will.”

– Rudy Giuliani answering a young questioner in New Hampshire about
what he would do if aliens attacked the United States, October 14, 2007

“He’s a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and
he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some
of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to
inject its power through military means in other parts of the world.”

– Jimmy Carter on Vice President Dick Cheney in an
interview with BBC World News America, October 10, 2007