QuoteLog

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.”

“From Bob Barr’s skirmish with a man dressed as Yosemite Sam to the dumping of McKinney, I for one have Georgia on my mind.”

“If the Jews control the media, why don’t we give ourselves better press?”

“Copyright Law is not a tool of repression granted to an unaccountable corporation by a corrupt congress at the expense of an ignorant public. It exists to protect and promote artists. Don’t ever forget that.”

“Understandably, the Bush administration would prefer to wait until closer to the eve of the offensive to enunciate its refutation of the skeptics. But just as war quickly discombobulates war plans, a democracy’s planning for war is subject to unruly contingencies.”

“The histories, interests and attitudes of the war skeptics are as relevant as whatever psychodrama President Bush may be playing out by finishing off his father’s archenemy, or whether the drive against Iraq represents some dubious alignment of American interests with Israel’s.”

“It is useful to remember the character of Saddam Hussein. He is the man who ordered that Kuwait be set on fire, with the expectation that it would burn for decades. There was no military value to this act. It was done out of vengeance, out of hatred, out of a viciousness that even today is hard to believe.”

“We have to love our enemies, I know. But before last year I never saw how hard that could be. And that -- as much as I can’t stand to admit that I could ever feel this way -- is why I hate Al Qaeda.”

“What else is there for me to prove? That I can be Evander Holyfield and not know when to quit? Or prove that I’m stuck in the sport and won’t get out until I’m speaking so people don’t understand me? So I think this is a great point for me to say, ‘Yo, I’ve gone through so much and I’ve even done it without getting Don King involved’.”

“Why didn’t you purchase the extended warranty?” you ask. “Because I don’t think I should have to pay an additional $400 to ensure that my $3000 computer isn’t a complete piece of shit.” I answer. But apparently, I need to “Think different.”

“But now we are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright.”

“If youth only knew, if age only could.”

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing -- when they have exhausted every possible alternative.”

“If people are looking for an excuse for inaction, they can say, ‘We must have positive proof that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons or even nuclear weapons.’ But the only real proof that we can really expect under this terminology is if we are attacked.”

“Everyone seems to want a war on terror, but no-one wants any battles to be fought in it. We’re evidently going to win it by sitting on our fat asses and being morally superior. This will so impress our enemies that they will cease to attack us out of respect.”

“The ultimate moral defense for capitalism is that it stops people like Bill Gates and me from raising armies and starting religions.”

“I object to sacrificing in the name of a war when our leaders are acting in all other ways as if it’s not a war. If this be treason, then make the most of it.”

“May the Lord help the enemy of a patient man whose patience has expired.”

“You disturb me to the point of insanity. There. I am insane now.”

“Your website’s so ugly, blind folks asked you to remove your ALT tags.”