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TRADITIONALLY, MOST OF AUSTRALIA'S IMPORTS COME FROM OVERSEAS.- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
I DON'T FEEL WE DID WRONG IN TAKING THIS GREAT COUNTRY AWAY FROM THEM. THERE WERE GREAT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO NEEDED NEW LAND, AND THE INDIANS WERE SELFISHLY TRYING TO KEEP IT FOR THEMSELVES.- John Wayne
WITHOUT CENSORSHIP, THINGS CAN GET TERRIBLY CONFUSED IN THE PUBLIC MIND.- General William Westmoreland, during the war in Viet Nam
WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS TEAM AROUND 360 DEGREES.- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE - SOONER OR LATER IT ADDS UP TO REAL MONEY.- Senator Everett Dirksen
THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET.- Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole [Ranks right up there with Homer Simpson's classic line, "So they have the Internet on computers now, eh?"]
I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE SOME REPORTERS PAWING THROUGH OUR PAPERS. WE ARE THE PRESIDENT.- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents
IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE HERE IN THE GREAT STATE OF CHICAGO. - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
I WAS RECENTLY ON A TOUR OF LATIN AMERICA, AND THE ONLY REGRET I HAVE WAS THAT I DIDN'T STUDY LATIN HARDER IN SCHOOL SO I COULD CONVERSE WITH THOSE PEOPLE.- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
IT IS BAD LUCK TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS.- Andrew Mathis
I've been reading that some people can send faxes across the country cheaper than the mail. That's very threatening. - Marvin Travis Runyon, US Postmaster General, quoted in Barrons, Dec 11 1995 [Thank goodness he never read about email!]
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[The topic is the horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001]
JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.
JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
The 700 Club, Sep 13, 2001, quoted by People for the American Way.
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District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry:
"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am.. a humble man."
"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
"The bitch set me up."
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
"People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."
"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!"
"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."
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