“I still want to be the candidate for guys with
Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal
to a broad cross-section of Democrats.”

– Howard Dean in an interview with the Des
Moines Register when running for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, November 1, 2003

“How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us
after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of
FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?

That’s right. Horse shows.”

– Michael Moore on his website in a “Letter to All
Who Voted for George W. Bush”, September 11, 2005

“That is not our plan Jon, but I think your paranoia
might make you suitable as a debate moderator.”

– Barack Obama on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart responding to the question, “If you are fortunate enough to get the Democratic nomination, fortunate to become President of the United States, will you pull a bait-and-switch, sir, and enslave the white race?  Is that your plan?”, April 21, 2008

“You know, I wish the Republicans would apologize for the
disaster of the Bush-Cheney years and not run anybody, just
say that it’s time for the Democrats to go back into the White House.”

– Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary debate, April 16, 2008

“You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think
there are some whites who are probably not ready
to vote for an African-American candidate.”

- Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, supporter of
Hillary Clinton, in remarks to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
about the Pennsylvania primary vote, April 12, 2008

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

– Barack Obama speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser, April 6, 2008