“One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same
mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African
Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We’re still paying the price for the
pathetic manner in which this country handled that… I think, frankly, the
Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.”

– Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee at a meeting of
the Political Animals Club in Little Rock, Arkansas, December, 2006

“Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers
reopened under new management: U.S. management.”

– Ted Kennedy on the floor of the Senate calling for a
complete investigation into the abuse of Iraqi
prisoners in a Baghdad-area jail, May 2004

“I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is
the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs.  Some
believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy.
If they are right, so be it.”

– Mitt Romney in his “Faith in America” speech at the George
Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas, December 6, 2007

“No Child Left Behind is the most ironically named piece
of legislation since the 1942 Japanese Family Leave Act.”

– Al Franken in a speech at the University
of Missouri-Columbia, Nov 19, 2003