Archive for June, 2008
“Our enemies will test the new president early. Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration.”
– Senator Joe Lieberman on Face the Nation describing
why he thinks John McCain would be better prepared in
January 2009 to lead the nation, June 29, 2008
“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.”
– Dick Cheney to George Wilson of the Washington Post
on his five Vietnam draft deferments, April 5, 1989
“They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead
of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.”
– Barack Obama at the Apostolic Church of God in
Chicago on Father’s Day calling on black fathers to be
more active in raising their childern, June 15, 2008
“No, but that’s not too important.
What’s important is the casualties in Iraq.”
– John McCain on the Today Show with Matt Lauer responding
to the question “If it’s working (the surge), Senator, do you now
have a better estimate of when American forces can come
home from Iraq?”, June 11, 2008
“Could a woman really serve as Commander-in-Chief? Well, I think
we answered that one. And could an African American really be our
President? Senator Obama has answered that one. Together Senator
Obama and I achieved milestones essential to our progress as a
nation, part of our perpetual duty to form a more perfect union.”
– Hillary Clinton in her 2008 Democratic Primary
concession speech in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2008
“The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.”
– Abraham Lincoln in a speech in Peoria, Illinois, arguing against the Kansas-Nebraska Act which repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for slavery north of 36 30′ latitude, October 16, 1854
