Did You Hear What They Said?

Hello True-believers and welcome to another exciting edition of "Did You Hear What They Said?".

For the newbies out there, this is where we actually quote people in the public sphere and let you know EXACTLY where they stand on the issues.

Without further ado, here we go:

FAITH

"These are perilous times for people of faith, not in the sense that we are going to lose our lives, but in the sense that it will cost you something if you are a person of faith who stands up for what you believe in and say those things out loud." --California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"I had no strong views about the new pope one way or another, but I'd have voted for him just for the pleasure of seeing him drive the U.S. media bananas. Apparently, The New York Times was stunned that their short list of Cardinal Gloria Steinem, Cardinal Rupert Everett and Cardinal Rosie O'Donnell were defeated at the last moment by some guy who came out of left field and isn't even gay or female but instead belongs to the discredited 'Catholic' faction of the Catholic Church." --Mark Steyn

"Nothing more separates Judeo-Christian values from secular values than the question of whether morality -- what is good or evil -- is absolute or relative. In other words, is there an objective right or wrong, or is right or wrong a matter of personal opinion?" --Dennis Prager

"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. ... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live inhabitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in constant Infidelity to their Mothers?" --John Adams

"[T]he most effective weapon against the disease has not been the AIDS lobby's 20-year promotion of condom culture in Africa, but Uganda's campaign to change behavior and to emphasize abstinence and fidelity -- i.e., the Pope's position. You don't have to be a Catholic or a 'homophobe' to think that the spread of AIDS is telling us something basic -- that nature is not sympathetic to sexual promiscuity. If it weren't AIDS, it would be something else, as it has been for most of human history." --Mark Steyn

THE COURTS (judicial filibusters)

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of lawyers in the first place." --Charles Montagu

"In liberal land, the thinking goes like this: If a majority of Americans seek a change in direction they must be denied by the courts for their own good. But when a tiny sliver of the minority seeks change it must be granted them by a handful of judges for the nation's good. This phenomenon used to be referred to as the 'tyranny of the minority', but is now simply known as the New York Times editorial policy." --Lisa Fabrizio

"Senator Reid can do the math: A Democratic Party, plus no ideas, plus obstruction, plus over-the-top partisan rhetoric equals continued minority."--Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee

"Again and again in recent years, the filibuster has been the shame of the Senate and the last resort of special-interest groups. Too often, it has enabled a small minority of the Senate to prevent a strong majority from working its will and serving the public interest."--Ted Kennedy 1975

(Hey Senator, what changed your mind???)

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected." --Thomas Jefferson

"Why are Senate Democrats so afraid of conservative judicial nominees who are African Americans, Hispanics, Catholics, and women? Because these...nominees threaten to split the Democrat base by aligning conservative Republicans with conservative voices in the minority community and appealing to suburban women." --Steven Calabresi

"Let me get this straight. The President comes to town, tries to implement what he ran on, gets re-elected rather easily, implements more of the agenda he ran on. You can't beat him on ideas, so you descend into name calling. And then you criticize him for creating the atmosphere of name calling by not abandoning what he won two elections on? And you really expect people to take you seriously?" --Duane Patterson

"A day after Senator 'Uriah' Reid brands the president a 'loser' and then apologizes, a week after Senator Ken Salazar labels Focus on the Family as the anti-Christ and then apologizes, and a month after Senator Robert Byrd brands the Senate GOP as Hitler's heirs, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) appeals to President Bush to bring moderation to the Republican side of the debate on the filibusters. Now that is rich. Wildly amusing and ineffective, but rich." --Hugh Hewitt

"The courts are the last hope for enacting the liberal agenda because liberals cannot get enough votes to control Congress or most state legislatures."--Thomas Sowell

"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution." --Byron White

"[T]here is not a syllable in the Constitution which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution."--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 32

WAR

"Sacrifice, not selfishness," he said, "must be the eternal price of liberty. Vigilance, not appeasement, is the byword of living freedoms."--General Omar Bradley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

"People...love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was it a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler so angry? No. What solved Hitler was violence." --Michael Medved

"There is...a deep anti-military bias in the media -- one that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong. I think that that is a hangover from Vietnam, and I think it's very dangerous." --ABC's Terry Moran

PERSONAL VIRTUE

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." --Theodore Roosevelt

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." --Barry Goldwater

"Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps over his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy." --Edmund Burke

SOCIAL SECURITY

"Will the last Democrat with an idea please stand up? It doesn't even have to be a good one. Just pick an idea: a chicken in every pot, an intern under every desk, whatever. But please, Democrats, do something soon to indicate some minimal brain activity before a Florida judge shows up and pulls your feeding tube." --Michael Graham

“We don’t have a Democratic plan at this time."--House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer(D-Md.), refering to Social Security reform, May 18,2005 http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/051805/wexler.html

"The Democrat Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity." --Ignatius Donnelly

IMMIGRATION

"It occurred to me...that 'illegal immigration' is an oxymoron. If it's immigration, it is not illegal, and if they are here illegally they are not immigrants, are they? Maybe it's time that a more accurate term be coined to describe these people. I'll start the process -- how about 'foreign trespassers?'" --Ron Olliff

ABORTION

"[Democrats], arguing on [the] basis that the Senate can provide advice and consent without voting, even at the committee level, is a rather 'strict' interpretation of the Constitution -- one that might even be called 'extreme.' How, one wonders, do these hyper-strict literalists find a constitutional right to abortion?" --Brandon Crocker

TAXES

"What's the incentive to MAKE more, if the Government continues to TAKE more?"--Glenn Beck, April, 29, 2005

BUH BYE, BILL

"The nice thing about not being president anymore is that...with no responsibility of office I can say whatever I believe. Of course, the bad thing is nobody pays any attention to what I say." --Bill Clinton

And finally, our trivia question. Who said the following:

"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted...."

a) Ronald Reagan

b)Bill Clinton

c)Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)Thomas Jefferson

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d) Thomas Jefferson