"For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. " -George W. Bush
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. " -William J. Clinton
"It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it. " -William J. Clinton
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. " -Ronald Reagan
"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. " -Ronald Reagan
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security. " -John F. Kerry
"I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations. " -John F. Kerry
"I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did. " -John F. Kerry
"What I've always said is - and I defended Bill Clinton's position, and I would defend the president's choice with respect to going into the Guard. I've never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard. " -John F. Kerry
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence." -Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." -John Quincy Adams
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln, 1838
"I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's." --Kee Hinckley
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Formula88 Member
Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
"Art has come to the discotheque, and it will never be the same again." -John Wilcock of the East Village Other, reviewing the debut of the Velvet Underground, 1967.
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litespd Member
Posts: 8128 From: No where you want to be Registered: Aug 99
"...Nothing appears more surprising... than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few... as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them except opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded,..."
David Hume, Of the First Principles of Government [1758]
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter, Boxer
"You guys line up alphabetically by height." - Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer
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The Funkmaster Member
Posts: 1541 From: Chilliwack, B.C., Canada Registered: Oct 2004
"In this day of communication via computer technology, I've learned that it is not a good idea to join a forum dedicated to Rape Crisis Victims in the hopes of hitting on chicks..." - Me
"Give a man enough rope, and eventually and inadvertantly, they hang themselves." -Me
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trailboss Member
Posts: 2069 From: Gilbert, Arizona Registered: Feb 2003
Paul Johnson {a British national} is highly underrated in my estimation. Here is one quote, many more are on the link above….
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When Jesus Christ preached in Palestine two millennia ago, the distinctions between rich and poor were painfully visible. The rich were plump and well-clad, warm and clean, scented and groomed. The poor were thin, in rags, filthy and stinking. Now all that has changed. The "poverty line" has to be revised upward every year. The officially "poor" now have cars, often own homes, take holiday trips and possess all the appliances judged indispensable. For the first time in history, plumpness and obesity are signs of poverty. The rich are lean, dieting on salads and often refusing to eat meat. They may still spend a fortune on clothing, but the results are not obvious. Clever mass production and marketing mean that a smart girl with taste, though she only works in a drugstore, can dress as elegantly as a Rockefeller or a Rothschild. In advanced countries (and in a growing proportion of the Third World) central heating, hot running water, fresh milk and fruit are now taken for granted. It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. - from Forbes magazine
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intlcutlass Member
Posts: 1431 From: Cleveland,Oh.44067 Registered: Nov 2002
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
"I can forsee a worldwide market for possibly 5 computers." CEO of IBM, early 60's (Damn!! "I" have that many!!!)
"640K should be enough RAM for anybody" Bill Gates, late 70's or early 80's
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alienfiero Member
Posts: 638 From: auburn, wa., usa Registered: Aug 2004
I was looking for a different quote, but I saw this one... LOL
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
This is the one I was looking for:
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it "
Both, Ronald W Reagan
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Posts: 5317 From: Opelika , Alabama, USA Registered: Oct 1999
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." - John Quincy Adams
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alienfiero Member
Posts: 638 From: auburn, wa., usa Registered: Aug 2004
Being politically correct is sometimes like strapping on a ball and chain, you can still run the marathon but by the time you cross the finish line everyone has gone home. - 84Bill
- Me
