“It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or
having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are
endangering the strategic interests of the United States.”
– Barack Obama speaking to reporters in Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago, about his meeting with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, April 19, 2009 (1:42 into video)
“You don’t want to swallow something from Rush’s butt, you just don’t.”
– Al Franken in an interview posted on Youtube May 12, 2006
“I bowled a 129….it was like Special Olympics, or something.”
– Barack Obama on the Tonight Show, March 19, 2009
“You know, I’m embarrassed. Do you know the website number?”
– Joe Biden directing viewers to a government website
in an interview on CBS’ “Early Show”, February 25, 2009
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to
secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”
– John F. Kennedy to the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
