Quotes from the right wing

[bobweaver]

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev. Pat Robertson again agreed, quoted from AANEWS #958 by American Atheists (September 14, 2001)

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
-- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, "We've had enough," we are going to take over.
-- Pat Robertson, speech given to the April, 1980 "Washington for Jesus" rally, quoted from Robert Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p. 29

They scream, "First Amendment." Of course, the First Amendment, as you and I both know, is a restriction on Congress.... So it really doesn't have anything to do with what you say or what I say, one way or the other.
-- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, December 10, 1990, deliberately misrepresenting what it means by "Congress shall make no law" by omitting mention of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and yet sniveling about the Supreme Court's state-church decisions

A Supreme Court ruling is not the Law of the United States. The law of the United Sates is the Constitution, treaties made in accordance with the Constitution, and laws duly enacted by the Congress and signed by the president. And any of those things I would uphold totally with all of my strength, whether I agreed with them or not.... I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states ... I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party.... I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts.... They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.
-- Pat Robertson, speaking to a group of Washington Post writers, as reported in the Washington Post, June 27,1986

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons
George W. Bush, Radio Address, Oct. 5, 2002

The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."
George W. Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

"We need a common enemy to unite us."
Condoleeza Rice

George W. Bush:
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." (Governing Magazine, July 1998);
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator." (Dec. 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect);
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." (Associated Press, July 27, 2001).

Tom Cole, a Republican Congressman in Oklahoma:
“If George Bush loses the election, Osama Bin Laden wins the election.” (Yukon Review, 3/04)

John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States:
"To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends." ("Critics Aid Terrorists, AG Argues," Boston Globe, 12/7/01)

Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (at the Nuremberg Trials):
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders ... All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism."

"...restore honor and dignity to the White House." - oft-repeated campaign pledge by George W. Bush in his 2000 presidential campaign

"Major league asshole" - George W. Bush, Sept. 4, 2000

"Go fuck yourself" - Dick Cheney, June 22, 2004

"We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!" - Karl Rove, spring 2002, quoted by Sidney Blumenthal

"War is insanity." - General Norman Schwarzkopf, on the 1993 CBS news special "Schwarzkopf in Vietnam: A Soldier Returns"

[teach1st]

1. A few more...

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.
-- George W. Bush, quoted from Aaron Latham, "How George W. Found God," George Magazine, September, 2000

“I think President Bush is God’s man at this hour, and I say this with a great sense of humility.” -- Tim Goeglin, a high level White House staffer

Our priorities is our faith. -- George W. Bush, Greensboro, North Carolina, October. 10, 2000, quoted from Jacob Weinberg, "The Complete Bushisms"

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East." -- George Bush, as quoted by reporter Arnon Regular, from the minutes of a meeting between Israel and Palestinian leaders, June 2003 (translation may be an issue).

"Our Goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism. ~ Randall Terry

[yurbud]

2. Karl Rove on education

Karl Rove, chief political strategist for U.S. president George W. Bush, said:

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans --- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.


“Quotes of the Week”
The New Yorker
2001.02.19/26, 78.

[yurbud]

3. Norquist on capitalism vs. democracy in Iraq

from Greg Palast on the privatization of Iraq:


Garner's 90-days-to-democracy pledge ran into a hard object:  The Economy Plan's 'Annex D.'  Disposing of a nation's oil industry—let alone redrafting trade and tax laws—can't be done in a weekend, nor in 90  days.  Annex D lays out a strict 360-day schedule for the free-market makeover of Iraq.  And there's the rub: It was simply inconceivable that any popularly elected government would let America write its laws and auction off the nation's crown jewel, its petroleum industry.


Elections would have to wait. As lobbyist Norquist explained when I asked him about the Annex D timetable,

"The right to trade, property rights, these things are not to be determined by some democratic election." 

Our troops would simply have to stay in Mesopotamia a bit longer.

[teach1st]

4. I would have made a good Pope

"I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon

"Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan

"Solutions are not the answer." - Richard Nixon

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!" - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

"Where the hell is Australia anyway?" - Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
--Rev. Jerry Falwell (R-Insane)