QuoteLog

“Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”

“Edwards’s staple stump speech for the past month has been the ‘Two Americas’ schtick that seems to impress everyone so much. If he intends to be the Democratic nominee in 2004, one of these Americas better start voting for him.”

“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”

“We tend at the moment ... to try to find a moment when a song is right. You stick the pin in the butterfly and put it in the box and you sell the box. Music is actually a living thing that evolves.”

“The only hope that Wes Clark has right now is to use his military experience to stage a coup.”

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

“Sorry there hasn’t been a lot of news posted by me lately, I have been very busy with school, exams, the media, new website and settling with Microsoft.”

“The simple fact of the matter is that I voted for Bush/Cheney in 2000, and right now I feel like I have been sold down the river when it comes to this hideous spending. The Farm Bill? The Education Bill? Medicare prescription drug plan? Marriage Promotion? Drug Testing in Schools? Faith Based Initiatives? You know, when Bill Clinton pandered, he at least had the decency to be straight forward about it. And, I might add, Bill Clinton, despite what you may think his role was in the process, did sign a balanced budget at the end of the day.”

“I’m from a little place called England ... We used to run the world before you.”

“You can all relax -- I fired my agents a couple of months ago. My physical trainer killed himself, and I would thank the people at Universal and Focus, except there are so many people trying to take credit for this, I wouldn’t know where to begin.”

“Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ‘character issues.’ Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.”

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall–to–wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country -- and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

“It says something about what has happened to the Republican party that supporting fiscal responsibility is now the position of the ‘hard left.’ And it says something about some Democrats that you either have to hate this president or love him unconditionally. Why can’t a grown-up have a complicated position? I’m a fiscal conservative, social/cultural liberal and foreign policy hawk. Neither party provides a comfortable home for people like me.”

“His integrity and down-to-earth common sense will only get him crushed by the democratic process.”

“People say I’ve slid to the right. Well, can you blame me? One of the biggest malfeasances of the left right now is the mislabeling of Hitler. Quit saying this guy is Hitler. Hitler is Hitler. That’s the quintessential evil in the history of the universe, and we’re throwing it around on MoveOn.org to win a contest. That’s grotesque to me.”

“Senator, with all due respect, he’s a lieutenant and I’m a general.”

“Maybe he flubbed talk of the Bible, flags and pickup trucks. But it turns out Howard Dean has a great Rebel yell.”

“I fled home the next week, leaving all my illusions of the Arab world in my Cairo flat. I couldn’t wait to be in America again. On the long flight home, I promised myself I would never accept anything less than full democracy for my fellow Muslims in the Arab world or apologize for the tyranny that now masquerades as Islam.”

“Leiberman may actually pull an upset or two in some state that fell off everyone’s radar, but there is no plausible alternate future in which he gets the nomination. Wait, yes there is: all the other candidates die from eating spoiled ham sandwiches backstage at a debate, leaving Leiberman facing only Dennis Kucinich, vegan.”

“A Dean event is like a Grateful Dean concert, where the faithful show up and groove to their favorite hits. There is a knowing, insiderish connection between the fans and the musician. The applause is boisterous yet perfunctory. There’s no expectation of hearing something new ... Edwards’s events here are like watching a roomful of formerly deaf people listen to music for the first time. People walk in as skeptics and leave as believers.”

“They’re all Howard Dean now, as far as we’re concerned. So from a preparation standpoint, it doesn’t really matter if it’s Howard Dean or Dick Gephardt or John Kerry or Wesley Clark - they’ve all moved to the left.”

“If you choose to work in TV news, you have to have thick skin. This isn’t ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ anymore. It’s more like ‘Survivor.’ You have to do all sorts of things you thought you’d never have to do, and the stakes are high. At the end of the day, we’re all judged on how much money we made for the company.”

“There are lunatics who are out there running blogs, and there are lunatics who work in the print media. It all sorts itself out.”

“The Republican Congress is spending at twice the rate as under Bill Clinton, and President Bush has yet to issue a single veto. I complained about profligate spending during the Clinton years but never thought I’d have to do so with a Republican in the White House and Republicans controlling the Congress.”

“I have good news. You and I, we are already changing America. Governor Dean and Congressman Gephardt announced today that they are taking down their negative television ads. But there is more we need to do. I call on Governor Dean, Mr. Gephardt and Senator Kerry to stop their negative mailings.”

“If two gay guys want to get married, it’s none of my business. I could care less. More power to them. I’m happy when people fall in love. But if some idiot foreign terrorist wants to blow up their wedding to make a political statement, I would rather kill him before he can do it, or have my country kill him before he can do it, instead of having him do it and punishing him after the fact. If that makes me a right-wing fanatic, I will bask in that assignation.”

“China has a population of a billion people. One billion. That means even if you’re a one in a million kind of guy, there are still a thousand others exactly like you.”

“A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.”

“What really teaches man is not experiences, but observation. It is observation that enables him to make use of the vastly greater experience of other men, of men taken in the mass. He learns by noting what happens to them. Confined to what happens to himself, he labors eternally under an insufficiency of data.”

“If by chance someone is looking at some picture that seems to be a ‘found photograph,’ it makes no difference that he understand what I was trying to do, because I was not trying to do anything.”

“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost -- that is important.”

“Anyone who is tied to physical objects as the only things with monetary value is flat-out unprepared for the Internet and should stay offline.”

“If you look at the caucuses system, they are dominated by the special interests in both parties. [And] the special interests don’t represent the centrist tendencies of the American people. They represent the extremes. And then you get a president who is beholden to either one extreme or the other, and where the average person is in the middle.”

“Congressman Kucinich is holding up a pie chart, which is not truly effective on radio.”

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well ... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read.”

“Even though the court forbade Milosevic and Seselj from actively campaigning in the Serbian election, they somehow managed to. In other words, ‘international law’ is unable to enforce its judgments even in its own jailhouse.”

“I really believe I’m hearing from the Lord it’s going to be like a blowout election in 2004.”

“I predict that Pat Robertson in 2004 will continue to use his multimillion broadcasting empire to promote George Bush and other Republican candidates.”