Did You Hear What They Said?

Remember, it's not hate speech. . . the actually said it!!

A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDERS

"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the lightof truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry andsuperstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and inthis Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religioustenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprivehim of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States."
-- George Washington (letter to the Members of the New Church inBaltimore, 27 January 1793)

WITHDRAWING HARRIET MIERS

"The unelected power-brokers of the far right have forced the withdrawal of President Bush's own Supreme Court nominee, before a confirmation hearing has even been held."--President Ralph Neas, People for the American Way

(Nine un-elected SCOTUS Justices overturned the 5th Amendment. Where was Ralph Neas when America needed him?)

"More Democrats should have complained that Miers was unqualified. But they didn't, apparently fearing an alternative nominee, and their silence speaks volumes about the timidity and intellectual cowardice of their party's current leadership." —Los Angeles Times editorial

"Conservatives are never stronger than when we are advancing our principles"--Rush Limbaugh

NOMINATING JUDGE ALITO FOR SCOTUS

"This is a debate the president, who needs a victory, should relish. Will it, as Democrats mournfully say, "divide" the country? Yes. Debates about serious subjects do that. The real reason those Democrats are mournful is that they correctly suspect they are on the losing side of the divide."--George Will

“I’m hopeful the Senate will honor the results of the last election and give this well-qualified nominee a full and vigorous hearing followed by a fair up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. To do any less would result in long-term damage to the Presidency and the Senate.”--Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)

"Any nominee who so worries the radical left is worthy of serious consideration. Based on what is now known about Judge Alito, we applaud the president for this outstanding nomination."--Dr. James Dobson

"By selecting Alito, the president shows that he has learned that this is not a time to run from a fight. It’s time to challenge everyone and their principles."--Tony Snow

"By choosing Judge Alito and kowtowing to the conservative right, President Bush, led by a tainted Karl Rove, has made a calculated Machiavellian decision to tear the nation apart in order to placate a minority radical Republican base."--Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL)
(This from a man who wants to raise taxes to fix Social Security: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7847922/ )

"Judge Alito is a constitutionalist who has weathered one of the more liberal federal circuit courts in the country,"--Manuel Miranda, chair of the Third Branch Conference

"All nominees deserve a fair process and an up-or-down vote. No nominee should be used as a political pawn."--Sen. John Cornyn, (R) Texas

"Now the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down. It was humiliating, it was degrading and it's a profound and distributing view of Judge Alito that he would uphold spousal notification as he did in the Pennsylvania case, and it raises concerns about his views of women." —Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL

ALGORE

"They say Saddam is delusional. He still thinks he's president and gives speeches standing next to his bed at night. No, wait, that's Al Gore."--Jay Leno

WAR

"Setting up liberal democracies and spreading freedom is what America has always fought for, and I trust always will fight for. If America ever ceases to fight for these things, she will have lost herself, and the world will have lost the shining city on a hill that America ever strives to be."--Jonathan D. Strong

" The Dems' inability to craft any policy to defeat terrorism is startling. It's more than four years after 9/11, and they still don't have anything to recommend except retreat and surrender. If the President speaks against them, by name—clearly and directly to the American people—he can not only re-establish support for the war, he can lay the groundwork for another conservative to take up the fight in 2008." —Jed Babbin

"Democrats are making the contention that they were told lies prior to the Iraq war, and believed them, central to their party's identity. Gullibility is not a leadership trait."--Rich Lowry

"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges."--President George W. Bush

MEDIA ANTI-WAR BIAS

"In Wednesday's Los Angeles Times (10-26-05) there are three stories about U.S. deaths in Iraq covering 4,228 words. They are accompanied by a total of nine color photos.

"Meanwhile, the Times takes the major historical event, "Iraq Charter Ratified by Big Margin in Final Tally" ... and puts it on page A6. And for this, they give readers 1,056 words with one black-and-white photo and a map of Iraq."-- Dave Pierre

"The U.S. Marine Corps has done more for global freedom and social justice in two years than has every U.N. peacekeeping mission since the inception of that now-corrupt organization."--Victor Davis Hanson

CIA LEAK (AKA "THE VALERIE PLAME BLAME GAME")

"The indictment will not seek to prove that the war was justified or unjustified."--Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on the indictment of Lewis Libby

"Too often the authorization of an investigation is essentially a fishing license to enable the prosecutor to find something to prosecute, whether or not he can get evidence to prosecute the crime he was supposed to be investigating."--Thomas Sowell

TAXES

"It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumptionthat they contain in their own nature a security against excess.They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded withoutdefeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue."
-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 21)

GOVERNMENT

"The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." —Woodrow Wilson

HILLARY CLINTON

"Anyone that stood up... was smashed down and belittled,very personally. Not only would she sort of humiliate you in front of your colleagues or whoever happened to be around, Hillary tended to kind of campaign against people behind their back, and that was certainly my experience."
--former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee MyersPBS Frontline, 16 Jan 2001The Clinton Years

OPINION POLLS

"The polls do not reflect reality, If all polls were right, John Kerry would be president now. Thank goodness he is not."--Tammy Bruce

And now for our MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION:

Who said the following?

"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."


A) Karl Rove
B) Cisero
C) Plato
D) Hillary Clinton

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C) Plato

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