''This makes you think about your freedom,in all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?''
-Marty Marshall White Hate Crime Victim
"If -- all of a sudden -- Obama had hoped for a red carpet and a crazy crowd of fans chanting something like Hollywood-style, 'We love you!' nothing of the kind was awaiting him in Moscow."
-Izvestia (Russian Newspaper)
"The federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it."
-Colin Powell (who endorsed Obama)
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control [the media]. They didn’t try that. What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well - for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."
-Helen Thomas White House Correspondent
"For some it was a very difficult vote because the entrenched agents of the status quo were out there full force jamming the lines in their districts and here, and they withstood that."
-Nancy Pelosi
"Today's razor-thin vote in the House spells doom in the Senate."
-Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in, you can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
-George W. Bush (6-16-2009)
"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
-Evan Thomas Newsweek editor
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
-Thomas Paine
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
-Ronald Reagan
"The president cannot continue his heavy-handed meddling in the private sector and expect it to function, much less flourish."
-Rep. Tom Price of Georgia (R)
“We will be engaged in discussions in a constructive way. But we absolutely oppose government control of health care decisions or mandatory physician participation in any insurance plan.”
-Dr. Nancy H. Nielsen, president of the AMA
"I can tell you one thing: People are really fed up. You know, Washington is hanging the middle-class out to dry…
You’ve got the national energy tax that’s about to hit the middle-class. Anyone who drives a car or flips on a light switch is going to be paying much higher taxes for their energy.”
-House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
- Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
-Ronald Reagan
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
-Ronald Reagan
"You know, I'm not sure I cold get through a Senate confirmation."
-Barack Obama
"The 'TEA Party' movement is an unhealthy mutation from public dissatisfaction with the Obama administration’s economic policies."
-David Axelrod, Senior White House Adviser, April 2009
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."
-Theodore Roosevelt
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
-Alexander Hamilton (1788)
"A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive."
-Thomas Jefferson (1823)
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
-George Washington (May, 9 1753)
"Speaker Pelosi's the big loser, because she either comes across as incompetent, or dishonest. Those are the only two defenses. The fact is she either didn't do her job, or she did do her job and she's now afraid to tell the truth.”
-Newt Gingrich
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China, we have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
-Barack Obama
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."
-Thomas Jefferson
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
-Ronald Reagan
"I will be the first to admit that exercising your right to free speech will earn you a mailbox full of nasty hate mail."
-ME
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
-Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas 1944
6 Time Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party
"It would appear, quietly and with deference and politeness, that China has canceled America's credit card,"
-Representative Mark Kirk (R)
"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms."
-SAMUEL ADAMS
You take a mortal man, and put him in control.
Watch him become a God, watch people’s heads unroll.
Just like the Pied Piper, led rats through the street.
Dance like the marionettes, swaying to the symphony of destruction.
-Dave Mustaine
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
-Abraham Lincoln
"A generous parent would have said, 'if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
-Thomas Paine
"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the world that a free man, contending for his liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."
-George Washington, July 2, 1776
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-Patrick Henry
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity."
-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."
-John Adams
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
-Thomas Jefferson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
-THOMAS JEFFERSON 1774
"If we do not hang together, or we shall surely hang seperately."
-Thomas Paine
"With all due respect to the vice president, these are the kind of things you can get away with if you are a United States Senator, or a backbencher in the U.S. House of Representatives, you should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States."
-Carl Rove
“It was almost like listening to an old friend, In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor.”
-Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.)
"Enough is Enough!"
- Senator John Boehner (R) Ohio
"This is international imperialism. Under Koh's plan, the Constitution would become secondary and international law would take precedence regardless of what Americans said about the matter."
-John Fonte, Director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute
"Both sides of the Atlantic understand that, as much as the constant cloud of nuclear warfare has receded, that the presence of these deadly weapons continues to be the gravest threat to humanity."
-Obama
"We're looking for supporters. We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army."
-DeHaven of Hoover, Organizing for America
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
-Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
-Ronald Reagan
"The president is going back to the safe confines he was always most comfortable with, in this case a friendly audience where the focus is on the sale rather than the substance."
-GOP strategist Kevin Madden
"It puts us on the path over 10 years for a very different kind of country, one with less freedom, one with more government, one with this extraordinary debt, and one which our children will have a very difficult time affording,"
-Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
-Ronald Reagan
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-Ronald Reagan
"Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity, or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes, and helicopter gunships."
-Ronald Reagan
"Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else."
-Ronald Reagan 1974
"We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor."
-Ronald Reagan
“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
-Dr Adrian Rogers
"Doing what is popular is not always right; doing what is right is not always popular."
-Unknown
"Why is it that common sense has become so uncommon?"
-Fred Thompson
"What I don't think people should do is suddenly stuff money in their mattresses and pull back completely from spending."
-Barack Obama
Ed -(Little late there duffus)
"Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power."
-Baron Wessenberg
"My view is that higher taxes on small and independent producers here in America will make us more dependent on imported oil and gas while we transition to cleaner energy alternatives, a goal we all share, and it will also hurt job retention and job creation in the energy sector, which provides an awful lot of jobs in this country."
-Senator John Cornyn of Texas
"Now, if people don't change how they use energy, then they will face higher costs for energy,"
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
"What we are seeing is a desperate attempt by Democrats to distract attention away from a multi-trillion dollar spending spree taking place in Washington," Ferrier said
-Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)
"The economy will be in shambles throughout 2009 — and, for that matter, probably well beyond — but that conclusion does not tell us whether the stock market will rise or fall."
-Warren Buffett
"You know that tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans. This recession has been no exception,"
-Barack Obama - Socialist
"We have done more in these past 30 days to bring about progressive change than we have in the past many years."
-Barack Obama - Anti-Christ
"Almost every day brings another multibillion-dollar government spending plan being proposed or even worse, passed,"
-Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C.
"At long last a budget that is a statement of our national values."
-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"As an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of president of the United States."
-1LT Scott Easterling US Soldier serving in Iraq
"The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians."
-Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
“This is the issue of this election is whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
-Ronald Reagan
( Tax increases ) "This is consistent with what the president talked about throughout the campaign," and "restores some balance to the tax code in a way that protects the middle class,"
-Axelrod
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.'
-Barack Obama
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
-John Marshall
1755-1835, American Jurist, Statesman
"I can't believe anything that comes out of Mr. Burris at this point."
-IL state Rep. Jim Durkin
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi
American, Comedian
"I think we need to appreciate that the bill is the largest change in domestic policy since the 1930s."
-House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey
"Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous...."
-Bill Clinton
"This is the largest expansion of welfare in the history of the country,"
-Robert Rector, senior researcher Heritage Foundation
"This certainly doesn't sound like it will create or save American jobs,"
-Michael Steel
“You would think the ACLU drafted this bill, for all of the talk about bipartisanship, this Congress is blatantly liberal.”
-Mike Huckabee
"It's not presidential. An American leader needs to be hopeful and optimistic - and truthful. Everything he says is parsed; everything he says is searched for deep meaning. When he goes to 'DefCon 5' on the economy and says that we're on the brink of catastrophe, it's absolutely insane."
- Frank Luntz, political consultant
"But at the end of the day, we are passing a bold and responsible plan that will help our economy get back on its feet, put people to work and put more money in their pockets,"
-Harry Reid Senate Majority Leader
"The time for talk is over, the time for action is now."
-Barack Obama on the Stimulus Bill
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
“Make no mistake,Tax cheaters cheat us all, and the [IRS] should enforce our laws to the letter.”
-Tom Daschle 1998
"We have plenty of folks ready to go, but there are some limitations with roads closed and icy conditions."
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-FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak
Ladies and gentlemen, a trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste."
-Senator Roger Wicker(R)
I won, I trump you on that!
-Barack Obama to Republican Senators
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Sounds like Obama's economic team's plan for America...