Quotes & Prose Of '08 Candidates |
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Dems & Thoughts
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
—Barack Obama
"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration."
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
—Joe Biden
"No one is pro-abortion."
—Barack Obama
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's a storybook, man."
—Joe Biden
"I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man."
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"You not only have a right to choose what you will answer and not answer, but in my view, you should not answer."
—Joe Biden
"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
—Barack Obama
"The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?"
—John Edwards
"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war.
—Barack Obama
"I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment."
—John Edwards
"We're not going to baby sit a civil war."
—Barack Obama
"There are 60 countries who have members of Al Qaida in them. How many of those countries are we going to invade?"
—John Edwards
"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time."
—John Edwards
"I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history."
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement."
—Barack Obama
"Would you tell your parents something for me? Ask them, if they have a gun in their house, please lock it or take it out of their house. Will you do that as good citizens? [to a group of schoolchildren]"
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver."
—Joe Biden
"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."
—Barack Obama
"Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer."
—John Edwards
"I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother."
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
"No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it."
—Joe Biden
"I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind."
—John Edwards
"And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency, is here talking about any of the people here. Rudy Giuliani... I mean, think about it! Rudy Giuliani. There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There's nothing else! There's nothing else! And I mean this sincerely. He's genuinely not qualified to be president."
—Joe Biden
GOP (Grand Old Party) & Fred's China Focus
"On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to—put us on offense against terrorists."
—Rudy Giuliani
"I'm glad that we've got people like George Bush and Colin Powell and Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and people like that on the job, quite frankly, because I think that our relationship with China over the next few decades is probably the single most important issue facing our country."
—Fred Thompson
"I'm happy to learn that after I speak you're going to hear from Ann Coulter. That's a good thing. I think it's important to get the views of moderates."
—Mitt Romney
"I take a different view of someone comparing me to Adolf Hitler than when someone calls me a jerk."
—Rudy Giuliani
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'"
—John McCain
"We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it."
—Rudy Giuliani
"Ronald Reagan used to say, we spend money like a drunken sailor. I never knew a sailor, drunk or sober, with the imagination of the Congress. And by the way, I received an e-mail recently from a guy who said, 'As a former drunken sailor, I resent being compared to members of Congress.'"
—John McCain
"Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear: the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation."
—Mitt Romney
"As we know, foreign contributions are illegal."
—Fred Thompson
"An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech, literature or live entertainment, and the artists' constitutional interest is thus minimal."
—Rudy Giuliani
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
—John McCain
"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home."
—Mitt Romney
"If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang."
—Rudy Giuliani
"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago."
—John McCain
"China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations."
—Fred Thompson
"The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them."
—John McCain
"It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime."
—Rudy Giuliani
"I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours."
—John McCain
"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly."
—Fred Thompson
"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear."
—Mitt Romney
"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."
—Fred Thompson
"It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake."
—John McCain
"There are some hopeful signs coming out of China in the statements they've made since September 11."
—Fred Thompson
"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality."
—John McCain
"Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them."
—Fred Thompson
"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
—John McCain
"Our job is not to go out of our way to pick fights that are not really fights yet."
—Fred Thompson
"When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life."
—Mitt Romney
"The fact of the matter is China has supplied Pakistan soup to nuts with... with nuclear capability and the ability to build their own missiles."
—Fred Thompson
"I hate to toot my own horn but that's what I'm good at. I'm good at taking problems that have hung around for a long time with nobody doing anything about it."
—Rudy Giuliani
"I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training."
—John McCain
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
—Mitt Romney
"The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should...I’ve got Greenspan’s book."
—John McCain
"Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal."
—Mitt Romney
"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."
—John McCain
"Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns."
—Fred Thompson
"On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell."
—John McCain
"You sit down with your attorneys and they tell you what you have to do, but obviously the president of the United States has to do what's in the best interest of the United States against a potential threat."
—Mitt Romney
"What can you say to a parent who lost a child in Iraq?"
—John McCain
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