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Unbelievable Quotes

Abortion

  • “More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." -Margaret Sanger, Founder Planned Parenthood
  • “I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." -Barack Obama
  • "I got to where I couldn't stand to look at the little bodies anymore." -Dr. Beverly McMillan, when asked why she stopped performing abortions
  • "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed." -Prof. Peter Singer
  • "There is no question, it should be a woman's choice. It is not a religious thing, it's not a political thing, it's very simple-it's just a right, so don't f--k with it. " -Meredith Baxter
  • "I would only say that this isn't the only decision that a lot of us wish that [Justice Samuel] Alito weren't there and [former Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor were there."-Harry Reid on Supreme Court upholding partial birth abortion ban
  • "They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn't want to have an abortion."-Dr. Randall
  • "The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” – Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
  • "I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • "...such laws are unnecessary for stable and supportive families, and they are ineffective and cruel for unstable, troubled families." -American Civil Liberties Union on Parental Notification laws
  • “Population control is too important to be stopped by some right wing pro-life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide; I'd set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could..." – Abortionist Edward Allred quoted in the San Diego Union, a millionaire 12 times over from the abortion industry
  • “The pro-life movement is having a negative impact on abortion. Sometimes women change their mind on the operating table and then we lose money! We have to run a cost-effective termination service. We have abortion on request now. It's what I believe and what I practice. A woman has a right to abort - whether it's to go on a skiing holiday or whether the foetus is disabled.” – Doctor John Parsons in an interview from Kings College Hospital, London. The Universe, March 1997
  • "The abortion question is not just about women's rights, but about life on the planet - environmental catastrophe awaits the world if the population continues to grow at its present rate." - Molly Yard, President, National Organization for Women 1989
  • "Not one [so-called] pro-life organization in the U.S. supports contraception to reduce abortion. It's the pro-choice movement that's actually working to reduce abortion." - Cristina Page, author How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
  • "The real fear for Bush’s conservative base is not that embryos are killed. The real fear is what would happen if the research pans out. If a cure to any disease is found by using stem cells, it undercuts the contention from anti-abortionists that life begins at conception." -Kirk Caraway, Nevada Appeal
  • "We know that it’s killing, but the state permits killing under certain circumstances" -Dr. Neville Sender, abortionist

Animal Rights

  • "We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win.” -Dr. Steven Best, speaking at International Animal Rights Gathering 2005
  • "The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans." - Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
  • "Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." - Ingrid Newkirk, President PETA
  • "There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals." - Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President
  • Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates." - Jerry Vlasak, Animal Defense League
  • "I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything." - Ingrid Newkirk, national director, Peoplefor the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  • "The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans." - Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
  • "I don't think you'd have to kill, assassinate too many. I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, or 10 million non-human lives." -Dr. Jerry Vlasak of North American Animal Liberation

Anti-American

  • "America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people." -- Richard Gere
  • "(T)he passengers were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes." -- Michael Moore on Flight 93
  • When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke." -- Robert Altman
  • "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. " - Roy Arundhati
  • “One of the great attractions of patriotism — it fulfills our worst wishes." - Aldous Huxley
  • "Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone." - Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works
  • "The most courageous act of citizenship in the United States today is pledging to dismantle the American empire." -Robert Jensen, journalism professor, University of Texas

Anti-Christian

  • "If portions of the New Testament were read (in the classroom) without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children." -1963 Supreme Court ruling
  • “Religious conservatives are waging a war against "the war against Christmas" — and depending on which critics you ask, the weapons of choice are unfair boycotts or coded anti-Jewish messages." - Nathanel Popper, Forward News
  • "I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God." -Phillip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass
  • "It is purely the Evangelical, Fundamentalist, mainstream Christian Church seeking once again to subvert democracy and interfere w/secular politics to keep the secular govt, state, and world under their thumb and hooked to their strings, and that of their Bible and their god {or their versions/interpretations of them rather}. - Bill Baker, National Day of Reason
  • "We have a lot of Christmas gifts in our stores, but the word Christmas is not used here. Everything is 'holiday.'" – the Gap
  • "For the past several years, I have been secretly involved in a secret scheme to secretly force religion -- Christianity, in particular -- from the public square. This secret has been laid bare, however, so now I can publicly and proudly proclaim that I am a member of the secular-progressive plot pithily dubbed "The War on Christmas." -Simon Maloy, Media Matters
  • "Together we boycott Christmas Shopping, Christmas decorations, Christmas cards, and every variety of Christmas" -Christmas Resistance
  • "As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death." -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • "The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of 'love thy neighbor' will finally be achieved." - John J. Dunphy, "A New Religion For A New Age"
  • "When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion." -Bill Maher

Bioethics

  • "I think it's controversial to oppose it (embryonic stem cell research). I actually think it's criminal. I have been called a baby killer many times…To me we're recycling medical waste." -Faye Armitage
  • "So far, our mixtures are modest. To make humanized animals really creepy, you'd have to do several things. You'd increase the ratio of human to animal DNA...You'd grow the embryos to maturity. And you'd start messing with the brain. We're doing all of these things." -William Saletan, Washington Post
  • "Advances in stem cell research are being held hostage by the extreme right. This is emotional. This is about our future, our children, our parents, and we cannot let ideology determine our future." -Ann McLane Kuster
  • "Human cloning allows man to fashion his own essential nature and turn chance into choice. For cloning's advocates, this is an opportunity to remake mankind in an image of health, prosperity, and nobility; it is the ultimate expression of man's unlimited potential."
    - Patrick Stephens, "Cloning: Towards a new conception of humanity"
  • “...the fact that a being is a human being...is not relevant to the wrongness of killing it; it is, rather, characteristics like rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness that make a difference. Infants lack these characteristics. Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings..." - Peter Singer, Professor Princeton Univ.
  • "Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.” – Dr.Jack Kevorkian
  • "The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.” - Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth"
  • "Science is moving at such a fast pace that scientists have proven that they can create headless mice through removal of genes in the embryo that control development of the head. But the body would have the capacity to keep the organs functional for use as transplants.... Embryonic stem cells, which holds promise of cure of any organ, is but a slow move towards immortality." — Dr. P.B. Desai, world renowned oncologist in India
  • "...nature can be cruel, who wants an ugly baby?" - Dr. James Watson, discoverer of the DNA
  • Posthumans could be completely synthetic artificial intelligences, or they could be enhanced uploads or they could be the result of making many partial but cumulatively profound augmentations to a biological human...the redesign of the human organism using advanced nanotechnology or its radical enhancement using some combination of technologies such as genetic engineering, mood drugs, anti-aging therapies, neural interfaces, memory enhancing drugs, wearable computers, and cognitive techniques. It would be tragic if the potential benefits failed to materialize because of technophobia and unnecessary prohibitions. -The Transhumanist Declaration
  • "As it turns out, the difficult issue of euthanasia could be avoided by redefining death." - Dr. Willard Gaylin
  • Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.
    - Dr. Jack Kevorkian
  • When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the haemophiliac infact has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him."
    - Dr. Peter Singer
  • "Transhumanism is more than just an abstract belief that we are about to transcend our biological limitations by means of technology; it is also an attempt to reevaluate the entire human predicament as traditionally conceived."
    -Nick Bostrom, Transhumanist philosopher
  • "Advances in stem cell research are being held hostage by the extreme right. This is emotional. This is about our future, our children, our parents, and we cannot let ideology determine our future." - Ann McLane Kuster, vice-chairwoman of New Hampsire Women for Kerry
  • "From this increase of intelligence, several effects may be confidently anticipated...they will become even less willing than at present to be led and governed, and directed into the way they should go, by the mere authority and prestige of superiors...The theory of dependence and protection will be more and more intolerable to them..." - James Hughes, Transhumanity News and Views
  • "This would mean that the so-called "peaceful pill" should be available in the supermarket so that those old enough to understand death could obtain death peacefully at the time of their choosing." - Dr. Philip Nitschke
  • "Whatever your opinion about tube feeding, the hard fact was it now stood between Mrs. Browning and her death." - George Felos, page 64 of "Litigation as Spiritual Practice"
  • "The Genetic Virtue Program (GVP) is a proposal for influencing our biological natures. That is, it is an alternate yet complimentary means by which ethics and ethicists might contribute to the task of making our lives and our world better." -Dr. Mark Walker, Trinity College, University of Toronto

China

  • “We firmly oppose any statements or deeds which use human rights, religion and other issues to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries. Chinese citizens enjoy freedom of religion in accordance with the law." -Qin Gang, China Foreign Ministry spokesman
  • “The distance between the Chinese and U.S. militaries is big. If you fear China's military buildup you don't have much courage." -Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army
  • "Freedom of the press should be subordinate to national interests." -President Jiang Zemin
  • "If the Americans are determined to interfere (regarding Taiwan then) we will be determined to respond. We...will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian..." -General Zhu Chenghu, professor at China's National Defence University
  • "Every man has a right to be poor. " -Richard Jefferies
  • "We consider the workers to be our slaves, and this belief is made all the easier by a supply of labor that is endlessly abundant." - Muhammad Saidur Rehman, factory owner

Corrupt Leaders/Dictators

  • "My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism." -Karl Marx
  • "No matter from what angle we look at this problem, it’s all stupid, stupid nonsense.” -Vladimir Putin on case of poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko
  • "Pluralism can never be tolerated in a socialist society. Liberalism in ideology, a multiparty system in politics, and diversity in the form of ownership which pluralism advocates are the mode of politics that is characteristic of capitalist society in which competition for survival dominates..." -Kim Jong il, North Korea
  • "People acquire and consolidate their revolutionary view on the leader through the education to equip them with the leader's ideas and the ideological struggle to root out outmoded ideas from their minds," -Kim Jong il, North Korea
  • “Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs." - Vladimir Putin, Russian President
  • "Kathleen Willey is obviously off her rocker, taking a page from the trash Rush (and the late Reverend Falwell) pushed in the 1990s about Bill Clinton being involved in murder, before the wingnuts started to dredge up Vince Foster fantasies." -Taylor Marsh
  • "Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.'- Vladimir Putin, Russian President
  • "I am astonished that our internal law-making is of such great interest to foreign governments." - Vladimir Plutin
  • "Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.'- Vladimir Putin, Russian President
  • "The great mass of people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler
  • "The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.” –Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • "What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
  • "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
    --Joseph Stalin
  • "The alleged Hitlerian gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which permitted a gigantic financial swindle whose chief beneficiaries have been the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose main victims have been the German people and the Palestinian people as a whole." -Robert Faurisson as quoted by the Guardian Weekly, April 7, 1991.
  • "The Holocaust is a religion. Its underpinnings in the realm of historical fact are non-existent -- no Hitler order, no plan, no budget, no gas chambers, no autopsies of gassed victims, no bones, no ashes, no skulls, no nothing...." -Mark Weber, IHR Newsletter, May 1989
  • "The numbers we have right now suggest that about 1.6 to 2 percent of priests are sexually involved with minors sometime during their career. So what we see is this number is probably the same or maybe even less than in society. So it´s not really a ´priests´ problem.´" -Father Stephen Rossetti
  • "When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."- Adolph Hitler
  • "This proposition … in my opinion, is destined to do for history what Darwin's theory has done for biology." (Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Preface to the 1888 English Edition) - Karl Marx
  • The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. - Adolf Hitler
  • Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless"
    - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
  • It must be said to the peoples of the world, and it must be said to imperialism itself that in this 21st century I will dig the grave of U.S. imperialism." -Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President
  • The devil came here yesterday. He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world." -Hugo Chavez making the sign of the cross and referring to President Bush's address the day before at the UN

Courts/Judicial

  • "I don’t think he was an exp . . . ” — he then caught himself — “a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation.” -Barack Obama
  • “Our island or lone ranger mentality is beginning to change. ...While you are the American Constitution Society, your perspective on constitutional law should encompass the world.." -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • “It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law." -Justice John Paul Stevens 12-12-2000
  • "(Janet Rogers) Brown embodies Clarence Thomas' ideological extremism and Antonin Scalia's abrasiveness and right-wing activism." Adding to these concerns, abortion-rights groups have pointed to Justice Brown's dissent in a California case in which she harshly criticized the other justices for overturning a law requiring parental consent for minors seeking abortions. - PFAW President Ralph G. Neas.
  • "Our island or lone ranger mentality is beginning to change...Justices are becoming more open to comparative and international law perspectives." -Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
  • "There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children... no such specific right can be found in the deep roots of the nation's history and tradition or implied in the concept of ordered liberty." -Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Ninth Circuit Court on last week's ruling
  • "It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren." - Sandra Day O'Connor

Culture

  • "Ok, assume that you will end up divorced and won't see your kids and lose half of your assets, how different is that from being married?” –NoMarriage.com
  • "The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is." - Helen Rowland
  • "Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology." -Neil Postman
  • "The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions." - Alexander Chase
  • "...it is we ourselves who alone make truth, make value, and so have formed the reality that now encompasses us.’ -Don Cupitt
  • “She does not want truth: What is truth to a woman! From the very first nothing has been more alien, repugnant, inimical to woman than truth - her great art is the lie, her supreme concern is appearance and beauty." - Nietzsche
  • "The religious right has clearly adopted the tactics of professional victimhood, to the point of now essentially casing themselves in the role of perpetual martyrs. A group that controls every branch of government and most cultural institutions has somehow managed to convince themselves, or at least their more credulous followers, that they are a poor abused minority. It's staggering to contemplate." -Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
  • If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer." - JK Rowling, author Harry Potter books

Decency

  • "...pornography exploits the people it portrays, or sex itself, no differently than a television program such as The Waltons exploits families or family life. - Pornography: The Other Side (p.34, par. 1)

Education

  • "California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children." -Justice H. Walter Croskey
  • "Critique a Thanksgiving poster depicting the tradtitional, stereotyped Pilgrim and Indian figures, especially when teaching older elementary school children. Take care to select a picture that most children are familiar with..." - Education World
  • "At Thanksgiving, shift the focus away from re-enacting the first Thanksgiving. Instead, focus on items children can be thankful for in their own lives and on their families' celebrations..." -Department of Education in 1996
  • "There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural laws or moral absolutes." -John Dewey, father of modern American public education
  • "Parent's attitudes about what they want for their children represent one of the greatest barriers to successful implementation of school-to-work." -U.S.Department of
  • “The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order." - Willard Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association
  • "If any school became a religious school, as some people say Khalil Gibran would be, or it became a national school, in the sense that it really wasn’t an American public school, I would shut it down.” - Joel Klein, Chancellor NYC School System
  • "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values." -Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A.
  • "We have a crisis on our hands. I am asking today for that responsibility to be placed squarely on my shoulders." –Adrian Fenty, newly elected Washington DC Mayor (D) describing his bid to take charge of the city’s schools
  • "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future." -Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
  • " I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic... but I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." -Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR
  • In the past century, the civic mission of schools, at its best, was an enlightened, open-ended, and thought-provoking education for democracy in a sovereign state, such as the United States of America.... The purpose was induction of each new generation into the democratic culture of a particular society and country in order to maintain the political and civic order or to improve it on its own terms. At its worst, the civic mission involved heavy-handed and mind-numbing inculcation of uncontested political loyalty to the state and society, democratic or otherwise."
    - from "Teaching Democracy Globally, Internationally, and Comparatively: The 21st centruy Civic Mission of Schools"
  • "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values."
    --Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A. (National Education Association)
  • "Dramatic changes in the way we will raise our children in the year 2000 are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling...We will need to recognize that the so-called basic skills, which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one-quarter of the present school day...When this happens- and it's near- the teacher can rise to his true calling. More than a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values...We will be agents of change."
    -Catherine Barrett , former NEA president
  • Under Education:
    " Rather than adding my voice to those who urge us to go 'back to basics' I would argue that we need to move ahead to the new basics...the arts of compromise and reconciliation, of consensus building, and of planning for interdependence, a command of these talents becomes 'basic'...As young people mature, we must help them develop...the global servant concept in which we will educate our young for planetary service and eventually for some form of world citizenship."
    -Harold Shane, Project Director for the NEA Bicentennial Committee, "America's Next 25 Years: Some Implications for Education" Sept. 1976
  • “And if the hypothetical Indians who participated in that hypothetical feast thought all was well and were thankful in the expectation of a peaceful future, they were sadly mistaken.”
    -Derman-Sparkes, "Anti-bias Curriculum - Tools for Empowering Young Children " NAEYC
  • “And if the hypothetical Indians who participated in that hypothetical feast thought all was well and were thankful in the expectation of a peaceful future, they were sadly mistaken.”
    -Derman-Sparkes, "Anti-bias Curriculum - Tools for Empowering Young Children " NAEYC
  • "At Thanksgiving, shift the focus away from re-enacting the first Thanksgiving, Instead, focus on items children can be thankful for in their own lives and on their families' celebrations..." - Department of Education in 1996
  • " Critique a Thanksgiving poster depicting the tradtitional, stereotyped Pilgrim and Indian figures, especially when teaching older elementary school children. Take care to select a picture that most children are familiar with..." - Education World
  • "We have to let students know there are no right answers." - William Glasser, "Schools Without Failure"
  • "The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of 'love thy neighbor' will finally be achieved." - John J. Dunphy, "A New Religion For A New Age"
  • "The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order." - Willard Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association, 1934
  • "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values." -Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A.
  • "Parent's attitudes about what they want for their children represent one of the greatest barriers to successful implementation of school-to-work." -U.S.Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement
  • "Movies may affect people's lives, but they don't have the long-lasting effect of a home-visit program." - Rob Reiner
  • The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling on Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke."
    -Muskegon Chronicle, describing a mock terrorism drill in their public local school
  • "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizen, to put down dissent." -H L Menken
  • "There's nothing that's good about a voucher system-parental choice, competition, and the ability to provide innovative instruction-that can't also be achieved by public education." - John Kerry
  • "The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order." - Willard Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association, 1934
  • "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future." -Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
  • "There is no need for parents to fear homosexual teachers. Ninety-seven percent of child seduction is heterosexual." -Dr. Benjamin Spock

Elections

  • "If Jindal had been Governor of Louisiana in 2005, everything would have been different and he would be John McCain's running mate instead of this wacko right-winger." -Morton Kondrake speaking about Sarah Palin
  • "I cried my eyelashes off." -Oprah on Obama's convention speech
  • “Why, with so many other qualified women and men in his party, did John McCain choose Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin is not the right choice. She shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies." -Nancy Pelosi
  • "Iowa will make the difference. If Barack doesn’t win Iowa, it is just a dream. If we win Iowa, then we can move to the world as it should be.” -Michelle Obama
  • “Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.” -Barack Obama in Germany
  • “It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush...that's a perfectly legitimate perception..." -Barack Obama
  • "I don't think I could identify one person who I consider to be my moral leader..." -John Edwards at Dem debate
  • "It's embarrassing to everybody when they do these jokes....It's hokie panokie. It's Mickey Mouse." - Chris Matthews, MSNBC on Mike Huckabee's humor during the debates
  • "The Republicans can't stomach the fact that I'm leading the fight against their misplaced priorities." -Hillary Clinton
  • Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
    --Josef Stalin

Energy/Oil

  • I could easily sell the oil that we sell to the United States to other countries in the world ... (to) real friends and allies like China, India or Europe." -Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan Pres.
  • "It's estimated that if we in fact opened up drilling despite the environmental consequences which are irreversible, but let's say we decided You know what, we'll drill in Alaska and we'll drill off the continental shelf, its estimated that it would take five years before you saw any impact, in terms of actual world oil supplies, minimum, I mean, that's optimistic." -Barack Obama
  • “You are going to start hearing folks say 'Drill in Alaska. You know, the Democrats, they don't want to drill in Alaska, they don't want to drill off the coast.' Well, here's the problem. We account for about 3% of the world's oil reserves. We use about 25% of the world's oil. We can't drill our way out of the problem." -Barack Obama
  • "Can we, in fact, meet our energy needs by increasing domestic production? The answer is no. Will we find more oil? We probably will if we take that course. Will it make much difference in the overall picture? No, it will not." -Al Gore
  • "The only immediate solution for the US is to systematically reduce consumption of electric power, natural gas and oil." - Brian J Fleay
  • "My administration is on top of the energy crisis like white on rice." - Gray Davis
  • "We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.” - David Foreman, Earth First!

Environment

  • "What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
  • “The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
  • "This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000." -Lowell Ponte, 1976
  • "The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this." -Al Gore
  • "In 50 years there will be no North Pole in the summertime." -Al Gore on MTV
  • "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." -Nigel Calder, International Wildlife, June 1975
  • "Never before has the future of Earth been put at such risk." -Al Gore
  • “The Environmentalist's Dream is an Egalitarian Society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally." - Aaron Wildavsky
  • "I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting." -Sheryl Crow
  • "The perception of body-building began to change and it became more and more hip and more and more attractive...It became mainstream. It became sexy, attractive. And this is exactly what has to happen with the environmental movement." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • "What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." —Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
  • “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age." -Kenneth E.F. Watt(1970)
  • "Look, we don't need Washington. And so let us create the partnerships and let us let the world know that America is actually fighting global warming." - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • “We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!" -Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalogue.
  • "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say 'I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem.' You take action."-Al Gore
  • "The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.” -Thomas Lovejoy, tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution
  • "Do not do unto the environment of others what you do not want done to your own environment....My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a 'Sermon on the Mount', that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century.” -Mikhail Gorbachev
  • "The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority an alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now." -Louis Proyect, Columbia University
  • "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.” -David Roberts, Grist Magazine staff writer
  • "I will be but one voice, but I'm part of a much larger movement. I will continue to take a stand whether Chevron likes it or not." – Gayle McLaughlin, new Richmond, CA Mayor
  • "…To begin with, we do not believe that it is enough to preserve some of our remaining wilderness. We need to preserve it all, and it is time to recreate vast areas of wilderness in all the planet's ecosystems: identify key areas, close roads, remove developments, and reintroduce extirpated wildlife." - Earth First
  • "…Furthermore, the whole economy of industrial affluence (and poverty) must give way to a hunter-gatherer way of life, which is the only economy compatible with a healthy land." - Off-Road.com, Ann Thropy
  • "You can't read the Constitution like a rule book" -Former Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt
  • "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro "We already have too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." -Paul Elrich, Stanford University biologist and Advisor to Vice President Albert Gore
  • "I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." -Judi Barri of Earth First?
  • "We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing -- in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
  • "People are the cause of all the problems; we have too many of them; we need to get rid of some of them, and this (ban of DDT) is as good a way as any."-Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund
  • "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem."
    - Lamont Cole (as quoted by Elizabeth Whelan in her book Toxic Terror)
  • [W]e have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
    - Stephen Schneider (quoted in Our Fragile Earth by Jonathan Schell)
  • "If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS." -Earth First! Newsletter
  • "A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect." -Richard Benedict, State Dept. employee working on assignment from the Conservation Foundation
  • "The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world." - John Shuttleworth
  • "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." - Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico
  • "I suspect that the politicians and businessmen who are jumping on the environment bandwagon don't have the slightest idea of what they are getting into. They are talking about emission control devices on automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles." - Dennis Hayes, Earth Day Agenda
  • "The Environmentalist's Dream is an Egalitarian Society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally. - Aaron Wildavsky
  • "[Christian] Scriptures tell us to subdue nature [but she equated this with destruction of the environment, so said] … priests should tell us to protect the environment." -Dr. Wangari Maathai, Earth Charter Commission
  • "[W]e have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." -Stephen Schneider
  • "Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction - and that's what global warming is - in order to protect oil company profits, well that fits for me the definition of treason." - Bill Maher of Politically Incorrect
  • "The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority an alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now." -Louis Proyect, Columbia University
  • "We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.” - David Foreman, Earth First!

Evolution/Creation

  • "Everyone believes in evolution, except "the ignorant, stupid or wicked." -Rchard Dawkins
  • “I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science." -Charles Darwin
  • "You can't put faith in a test tube. Don't put it in a science classroom." -Red State Rabble blog
  • "Vigilance requires firm and consistent opposition to every effort to use the nation's schools to teach any biblical text, including Genesis, as literal truth, either directly or disguised as "alternative" science. To reject creationism as science is to defend the most basic principles of academic integrity and religious liberty. - ACLU

Feminism

  • "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.” –Robin Morgan
  • "Eve Ensler is the Pied Piper. She is leading women and the world to a different consciousness of the essence of women." -Gillian Anderson
  • "I am suggesting that the idea of salvation uniquely by a male savior perpetuates the problem of patriarchal oppression." -Mary Daly, 'Christian feminist'
  • "The more I know about men the more I like dogs." -Gloria Allred, US feminist attorney
  • "The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.” -Andrea Dworkin
  • "All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'." - Ani DiFranco
  • “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” - Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
  • Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." -Sheila Cronan, feminist leader

Gambling

  • "If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell."
    -Michael Ventura
  • ."When we put 50 machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse."
    -Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
  • "Suckers have no business with money anyway."
    -Canada Bill Jones, Legendary Three-card Monte Dealer

Government

  • Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
  • "...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete..." and he looks forward to the coming "birth of the Global Nation." -Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution, co-sponsor of COG (Continuity of Governement)
  • "We now learn Saddam's torture chamber reopened under new management." (speaking of recent US soldiers' treatment of Iraqi prisoners) - Senator Ted Kennedy
  • "The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore." -Rep. Ellen Tauscher, (Democrat, California)

Health Care

  • "A rational argument can be made for allowing PAS (Phycisian Assisted Suicide)in order to offset the amount society and family spend on the (elderly) ill." - Derek Humphry & Mary Clemen
  • "If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people.” -French doctor, in Sicko
  • "There's a reason the World Health Organization ranks their (Cuba) health-care system among the best in the Third World..." - Michael Moore
  • “What is clear from our results is that it’s the physicians, the people who are closest to the bedside and who almost certainly have the most direct experience with managed care, who were the least likely to choose HMOs.”
    -Medical Care, April 29, 2002

Hollywood

  • "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now." - Kathy Griffin, at Emmy Awards
  • "The trailer shows this as an anti-holiday film and it could be the much-needed antidote to that good-will-to-man feeling that permeates the season." - George M. Thomas, Beacon Journal movie critic, on 'Bad Santa'
  • "I would stick needles in my eyes before I would become a Republican."
    -Cher
  • "They say music can alter moves and talk to you. Well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? Well if it can and the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge it was my fault...and I'll get sued!" -Eminem

Homosexuality

  • “Heterosexuality as an institution is founded upon an ideology of 'difference'. Though the difference is seen as natural, it is in fact a difference of power." - Sheila Jeffreys
  • "You know, I'm wishing everyone good luck with their marriages and I hope that California's economy is booming because everyone is going to come here and get married." -Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • "Bestiality is not my thing … But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn’t mind (and the animal rarely does), I don’t mind, and I don’t see why anyone else should.” -Frank Kameny
  • "We have done a great many programs about gays and lesbians. We hope that we've opened some eyes - and if they're not open, we just don't care anymore." -Barbara Walters, accepting an award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
  • "When the people vote, people are not legal experts, constitutional experts or any of that. I think that's why we have the courts. People may vote with good intentions, but then the court says, 'This is not constitutional.'" -Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • "As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It's inevitable. This door is wide open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not. This is the future, and it's now." -Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco
  • "We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgarities. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms...All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men." - Michael Swift, 'Gay Revolutionary' printed in the Congressional Record, February 15/21, 1987
  • "Dumbledore (master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts) is gay," -J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter
  • "So e-harmony gave me my free compatibility thingy, 10 thousands questions laterthey wouldn't let me join. Can't a girl get some love? -lesbian on anti-e-harmony television ad
  • "Well, I've heard from a number of my friends, and I've certainly clarified with them any misunderstanding that anyone had, because I disagree with General Pace completely. I do not think homosexuality is immoral." - Hillary Clinton
  • "My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.” -Harvey Fierstein
  • "There is no need for parents to fear homosexual teachers. Ninety-seven percent of child seduction is heterosexual." -Dr. Benjamin Spock
  • "Jim Dobson's response was particularly telling. He basically blamed the controversy on gays and Democrats." –David Kuo, Author of Tempting Faith
  • "I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion" - Margaret Mead anthropologist
  • Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
    -Sam Austin
  • 'Heterosexuality as an institution is founded upon an ideology of "difference". Though the difference is seen as natural, it is in fact a difference of power.'
    Sheila Jeffreys
  • "We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgarities. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms...All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our onlly gods are handsome young men."
    - Michael Swift, 'Gay Revolutionary' printed in the Congressional Record, February 15/21, 1987
  • "The time has come to reject nostalgia for traditional family groupings and to seek new ways to realize the satisfaction they once brought... [we must create] fresh new kinds of relationships, bearing no resemblance to past rituals, but opening doors to greater measures of individual happiness." - Jack Michols, The Gay Agenda:Talking Back to the Fundamentalists
  • “Hey Queer Boys! Welcome to queer life in the 21st Century! Is this a great time to be gay or what? We are faced with important challenges every day like the right to marry, homophobia, coming out, STDs and HIV/AIDS, but queers have never enjoyed more visibility acceptance than today." - GLSEN's Little Black Book, given to Jr. and Sr. high school students
  • “We must measure human rights by one yardstick. Marry who you want to. And leave when you’re ready.” — Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Boston Globe, 2004
  • "I commend your efforts to strengthen your community and to encourage cultural development and social tolerance in our Golden State." - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2006 California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Celebrations
  • "If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered." -Robin Tyler
  • "We intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate themselves from such types." - Marshall Kirk & Hunter Madsen, in "The Overhauling of Straight America"

ID/Privacy

  • "This will help parents know that their children have gotten to school safely,, and the school will know that each bus is performing as it should be." - Zanelli, Blue Springs School District, Missouri
  • "Are we going to see chips embedded in the human body? You bet we are...but it isn't going to happen overnight." -Paul Saffo, Director of The Institute for the Future
  • "If, at some point, "smart medicine cabinets" are developed to, for example, assist geriatric patients with taking the right medicines at the right time, it might be necessary to encode the type of medication and dosage instructions on the tag." -Bert Moore, AIM Global

Immigration

  • "He chose to veto the best driver's license bill proposal in the nation -- one that strengthens national security and public safety while holding immigrants to the highest level of responsibility in the nation." -Calif. Sen. Gil Cedillo (D) sponsor of the bill, speaking of Gov. Schwarzenneger
  • "Look, I have already said, I support the notion that we have to deal with public safety and that driver's licenses (for illegals) at the same level can make that happen." -Barack Obama
  • "Mexico does not end at its borders." -Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico
  • "The students in this country, regardless of how they came here, deserve an opportunity to continue with their education in a lawful environment." -Carlina Tapia-Ruano, Chair the HNBA Section on Immigration Law.
  • "What we need to do is forge a new North American Community…Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to provide them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls.” -Robert Pastor, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force
  • "It is a violation of Border Patrol regulations to go after someone who is fleeing," she said. "The Border Patrol pursuit policy prohibits the pursuit of someone." -Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof
  • "You've got the extremes on the left and the right trying to kill the entire bill rather than accept provisions they detest." - Chip Reid NBC's Nightly News.
  • “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs..." -Sen. Ted Kennedy
  • “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.” -Mario Obledo, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund founder
  • "We're not required to ask the immigration status of any of our customers. That is the responsibility of the federal government," - Wells Fargo bank representative Jerry Ruiz
  • "California is going to be a Mexican state, we are going to control all the institutions. If people don't like it they should leave." -----Mario Obledo: 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and former head of Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund MALDEF
  • “In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal ‘gringo’ invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.”
    - from El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (The Spiritual Plan oif Atzlan) one of MEChA's founding documents.
  • "Comprehensive policies...will require a fundamental shift ...anchored in a new international imperative, the right of individuals to stay where they are." -The Trilateral Commission
  • “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.” People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.”
    -Mario Obledo, founder, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund & former California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown
  • "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this." - Ernesto Zedillo, Former Mexican President
  • The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." - Excelsior, Mexico's national newspaper
  • I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this." - Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Chicago, 1997
  • "In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal ‘gringo’ invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.” - from El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (The Spiritual Plan oif Atzlan) one of MEChA's founding documents
  • "On behalf of the Latino community, the term 'illegal immigrant' serves to dehumanize the person, makes them less than human. Similar to the way the n-word was used to dehumanize African-Americans." -Illegal immigrant activist Jerry Gonzalez
  • "It’s not our responsibility as local police to implement these Nazi-style actions in the United States and just go around taking people off the street who may be undocumented. Immigration is a federal civil matter. Its not our role. Politically, it may not be the best thing to do, to talk like this. But I don’t fear that. My position is to ensure that everyone can reach the American Dream.” -Mayor Robert Patten, Hightstown, New Jersey

Intelligent Design

  • “The only appropriate responses [to Intelligent Design proponents] should involve some form of righteous fury, much butt-kicking, and the public firing and humiliation of some teachers, many school board members, and vast numbers of sleazy far-right politicians." -PZ Myers, Univ. of Minnesota Professor
  • "I believe that relgion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose." - Clarence Seward Darrow, American lawyer Scopes trial

Internet/Child Predators

  • "As this anxiety has been cranked up and up in recent decades, we have been seeing increasingly repressive measures designed not to protect children themselves but to protect the myth of childhood innocence in which society has invested so heavily.” -Tom O'Carroll
  • "If we accepted sexual behaviour between children and adults, we would be far more able to protect our children from abuse and exploitation than we are now." -Jane Rule, lesbian feminist, "Teaching Sexuality"
  • "Myspace members know that everyone can see their profiles, and those who talk to people they don't know are liable for their own decisions. If they get raped or killed, it's partly their fault." -Christine, teenager

Liberal/Left

  • “There are no rules about how one must behave or express oneself at this (Burning Man) event..." -Burning Man website
  • "Now that Sen. McCain is safely in Mississippi we can get back to serious work." -Rep. Barney Frank
  • "Sarah Palin is not a woman's choice. That's it." -Jodie Evans, CODE PINK co-founder, trying to disrupt Palin's RNC speech
  • "If a potential First Lady can sell millions of dollars worth of alcohol and make it into the White House, it seems hypocritical to take anyone that might sell even a couple of hundred dollars worth of marijuana and send them to the Big House." -Mason Tvert, Dir. Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) marijuana legalization org
  • "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." –CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Katrina evacuees
  • "Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” –Hillary Clinton
  • “Kathleen Willey is obviously off her rocker, taking a page from the trash Rush (and the late Reverend Falwell) pushed in the 1990s about Bill Clinton being involved in murder, before the wingnuts started to dredge up Vince Foster fantasies." -Taylor Marsh
  • "Sen. Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perceived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go.” -Air Force Gen. Scott Gration, top Obama military adviser
  • “Realtors in cities around the country were instructed by PC police that the term "walk-in closet" is not appropriate as it discriminates against "wheelchair-bound persons", and also that 'master bedroom' is inappropriate because it suggests slavery." -The Chicago Tribune
  • "We are the defenders of democracy, the upholders of the Constitution. If it weren’t for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we’d be living under Hitler.” -Medea Benjamin, co-founder Code Pink
  • "Moral relativism is another catch phrase used by the Republican political machine to deface and delegitimize liberals." -Elyas Bakhtiari
  • “Real freedom will come when [U.S.] soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." -John Daly, Warren County Community College professor
  • "The Berkeley City Council voted to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." - Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates
  • "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people." -Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor
  • "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -Josef Stalin
  • "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us. A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall." -Louis Farrakhan comparing Barack Obama to Nation of Islam founder, Fard Muhammad
  • "Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” -Gloria Steinem
  • "For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country." -Michelle Obama
  • "Kathleen Willey is obviously off her rocker, taking a page from the trash Rush (and the late Reverend Falwell) pushed in the 1990s about Bill Clinton being involved in murder, before the wingnuts started to dredge up Vince Foster fantasies." -Taylor Marsh
  • “It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" -excerpts from Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony
  • "Just because you walk around on a ranch in Texas with a big belt buckle doesn't mean you understand and stand up for rural America." -John Edwards
  • "So you guys tried to fake another Gulf of Tonkin incident using some clown with a CB radio and the lethal threat posed by the S.S. Minnow? Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, on behalf of the Bush administration, today's 'Worst Person in the World'!" - Keith Olbermann
  • "How‘d you like to get stuck defending her (Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America) at a sanity hearing? Today‘s “worst person in the world!” -Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
  • "It’s so bad being homeless in winter. They should buy a plane ticket and go somewhere hot like the Caribbean where they can eat free fish all day.” –Lady Victoria Hervey
  • "Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community." -H.G. Wells
  • "Kathleen Willey is obviously off her rocker, taking a page from the trash Rush (and the late Reverend Falwell) pushed in the 1990s about Bill Clinton being involved in murder, before the wingnuts started to dredge up Vince Foster fantasies." -Taylor Marsh
  • "We must end foreign aid and use our own money for our own selfish pursuit of happiness." - Rick Lacey, Prison Planet
  • "Kathleen Willey is obviously off her rocker, taking a page from the trash Rush (and the late Reverend Falwell) pushed in the 1990s about Bill Clinton being involved in murder, before the wingnuts started to dredge up Vince Foster fantasies." -Taylor Marsh
  • "We're not going to baby sit a civil war." -Barack Obama
  • "I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe." -Hillary Clinton in the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan"
  • "I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum." -Hillary Clinton
  • "The most important single step we can take to strengthen the program is to privatize George Bush, not privatize Medicare." –Sen. Ted Kennedy
  • "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -Hillary Clinton
  • "There's no way that a member of Congress would ever vote for that (not to fund Israel) and hope to be re-elected," -Jimmy Carter
  • "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the President." -Hillary Clinton
  • "Fire trucks, ambulences, garbage trucks can sometimes be seen riding in extremist convoys, with their flashing lights turned on and their sirens screaming as they pursue and harass a target." - Independent Media Center
  • "Sharon Hughes THINKS she knows the truth about Iraq." -Cindy of Divided We Stand
  • “I did come away with a sense that we - or those people who don't want to see religion in politics and culture - if we don't look into it and see what is going on, we're in danger of missing it and not be able to react to it properly." -Christiane Amanpour
  • “So if anybody tells you there is no vast right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court." - Hillary Clinton
  • "It is a violation of Border Patrol regulations to go after someone who is fleeing. The Border Patrol pursuit policy prohibits the pursuit of someone." -Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof
  • "Porn stars are human-rights heroes...I want to thank and applaud you for your fight and contribution for First Amendment freedom." -ACLU President Nadine Strossen addressing the World Pornography Conference
  • "God bless the America we are trying to create." - Hillary Clinton
  • "The Right champions the materialism and ruthless selfishness promoted by unrestrained capitalism and then laments the moral crises of family instability.” –Michael Lerner in “The Left Hand of God – Taking our Country back from the Religious Right”
  • "If it weren't for CodePink and groups like CodePink, we'd be a lot farther away from resolving the situation in Iraq." -Rep. (D-CA) Lynn Woolsey
  • "In my opinion, it makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way to get at Osama bin Laden." - Al Gore
  • "Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone." - Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works
  • "America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people." - Richard Gere
  • "The most courageous act of citizenship in the United States today is pledging to dismantle the American empire." - Robert Jensen, journalism professor, University of Texas
  • "Our country is founded on a sham." - Janeane
  • "We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." -Nikita Khrushchev
  • “Congress is not going to create a North American Union nor give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants. There are a lot of national issues that Napa County residents should be concerned about, but the creation of a North American Union is not one of them." -Rep Mike Thompson, D-CA
  • “I DON'T SUPPORT our troops." -Joel Stein, LA Times Columnist
  • “With this latest veto threat, the president has once again chosen confrontation over cooperation." - Nancy Pelosi
  • “Many people regarded the anticrime campaign as a calculated effort to win support from France's far right in anticipation of his presidential bid." - New York Times on new French President, Nicolas Sarkozy
  • "I don't think I could identify one person who I consider to be my moral leader..." - John Edwards at Dem debate (hear it on YouTube)
  • "There is so much fascination with my hair that I told Bill when he was president that if he wanted to get some international incident off the front page I would change it.” - Hillary Clinton
  • "Let's fight this president and put him in f--ing jail." - actor Sean Penn at recent Oakland, CA anti-war rally
  • "I love Texas too much to leave it to the other side.” – Hillary Clinton
  • "Don't let Bush and Cheney break your spirit.'' -Rev. Amos Brown, leader of the local NAACP at anti-war protest
  • "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.” –Barack Obama
  • "Children that are 3-years-old or younger are really sitting ducks for physical punishment, and they're no match with the speed or size or force of an adult who's beating them.” – Sally Lieber, Calif. Assemblywoman
  • "Now, as a woman, as a woman Speaker of the House, I don't want any less opportunity than male speakers have had when they have served here." –Nancy Pelosi re the newer, bigger plane she wants
  • "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.’” – John Kerry
  • "They have no answer to deal with how badly they have screwed it up. I am not being facetious now. Therefore, the best thing to do is keep it from totally collapsing on your watch and hand it off to the next guy—literally, not figuratively,” –Senator Joe Biden (D) on the Bush Admin. & Iraq War
  • "Every single person out there that is of any consequence knows the vice president doesn't know what he's talking about. I can't be more blunt than that. He is yet to be right one single time on Iraq." –Sen. Joe Biden
  • "This bill is absolutely not big mother government coming in to tell parents what to do… if you never hit a cat, you should never hit a kid.'' –Sally Lieber, Calif. State Assembly woman
  • "She was mine to do with what I wanted to do with, she was married to me and therefore her parents had lost all rights to her. Do you get that?" - Michael Schiavo
  • "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values." -Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A.
  • "The kids are affluent, so they can afford it." –SFPD investigator requiring choir victims to pay own travel back to SF to be questioned on case
  • "It may be that (repealing) tax cuts for those making over a certain amount of money, $500,000 a year, might be more important to the American people than ignoring the educational and health needs of America's children." –Nancy Pelosi
  • "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life." -Hillary Clinton
  • "It’s so bad being homeless in winter. They should buy a plane ticket and go somewhere hot like the Caribbean where they can eat free fish all day.” –Lady Victoria Hervey
  • "Perhaps, given the patent falsehood of the Story of Thanksgiving, one of the better questions to ask as the holiday approaches is what, in fact, it really stands for. There were times, to be sure, when I appreciated sitting with my family and devouring an embarrassment of culinary riches. But those I hold separate from the holiday itself.” -Brian Brasel
  • "As Americans sit down on Thanksgiving Day to gorge themselves on the bounty of empire, many will worry about the expansive effects of overeating on their waistlines. We would be better to think about the constricting effects of the day's mythology on our minds.” -Robert Jensen
  • "In a just world, there'd probably be no adoption." –Dru Sefton
  • "I voted for change, except for me.” – Hillary Clinton
  • "A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay… (ie) Ken Mehlman.” –Bill Maher on Larry King Live
  • "The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life...I think they (the 19 hijackers) were brave at the very least."
    -CNN founder Ted Turner
  • "I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we someday become communists."
    -Actor, Martin Sheen
  • "We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small does of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
    -Nikita Khrushchev
  • "What is Blair doing with Bush? I mean Bush has an excuse, he's an idiot, and could have been tricked into this, but Blair is a smart guy. What has he been promised? A job as a ranch-hand when it's all over?"
    -Michael Moore
  • They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. ...We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”
    -Michael Moore, the London Mirror
  • “Every time I cross this border (Canada) I feel like I’ve left the land of lunatics. You are not armed and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more human when I come here.”
    -Martin Sheen
  • "The German and French governments should be commended."
    -Spike Lee
  • " I would stick needles in my eyes before I would become a Republican"
    -Cher
  • "(Janet Rogers) Brown embodies Clarence Thomas' ideological extremism and Antonin Scalia's abrasiveness and right-wing activism." Adding to these concerns, abortion-rights groups have pointed to Justice Brown's dissent in a California case in which she harshly criticized the other justices for overturning a law requiring parental consent for minors seeking abortions
    - PFAW President Ralph G. Neas.
  • "...at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: Fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity, uncertainty avoidance, need for cognitive closure, terror management."
    -Kathlenn McClay, UC Berkeley News, reporting on an article recently published, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.
  • “The entire federal government — the Congress, the executive, the courts — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate. That agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives. It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich. It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable. And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you like the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what’s coming. And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture....”
    — Bill Moyers’ commentary on PBS’s Now, November 8.
  • I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president"
    - Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpeonaed documents
  • "I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil."
    -- Harry Belafonte
  • "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
    - Al Gore
  • "You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." -Bill Clinton (5/29/1993)
  • "It is from these things the New Soldier is asking America to turn. We are asking America to turn from false glory, hollow victory, fabricated foreign threats, fear which threatens us as a nation, shallow pride which feeds off fear, and mostly from the promises which have been proven so deceiving these past ten years"
    -John Kerry, in his book, A New Soldier 1971
  • 'In 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot,' his other emotionally manipulative historical epics, you came out wanting to swing an ax into the skull of the nearest Englishman. Here, you want to kick in some Jewish and Roman teeth. And since the Romans have melted into history.''
    -Maureen Dowd, New York Times
  • “So I got on my knees and prayed for guidance. God answered, ‘You know those sh…ty books by Ann Coulter and Bernie Goldberg… total bullsh…t…start by attacking them…Then go after the right-wing media, especially FOX…then use them as a jumping-off point to go after Bush…”
    -Al Franken, Author, Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them
  • "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans. -Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, March 1993)
  • ''The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.'' - Michael Moore
  • "I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate." - Michael Moore
  • "These bast@!ds who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pr@!ks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control." - Michael Moore, producer "Fahrenheit 9/11"
  • "They're a pretty monolithic party...They pretty much all behave the same, and they all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party." - Howard Dearn, Democrat Party Chairman, speaking about the GOP
  • "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." -Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Presidential Candidate
  • "Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world." -Al Gore
  • "We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion...I think it justifies crazies." - Bill Maher, HBO
  • "This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they're poor, or if he thinks they're in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people..." -- Air America's Randi Rhodes
  • "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about." -Hillary Clinton
  • "I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." - Hillary Clinton, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1997
  • "We are committed to eliminating bias and promoting equality of opportunity, irrespective of race or ethnic background. We regularly review the ethnic background of all Doctors to make sure we are as free from bias as possible." -The General Medical Council
  • If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle" - Hillary Clinton
  • "Historians are going to be totally baffled by how the American people fell in love with this man [Ronald Reagan] and followed him the way we did.” — Lesley Stahl on NBC’s Later with Bob Costas
  • "You vote for me and I´ll give you family values. ... I promise you the most ethical administration in the history of our country." - Bill Clinton
  • "Fire trucks, ambulences, garbage trucks can sometimes be seen riding in extremist convoys, with their flashing lights turned on and their sirens screaming as they pursue and harass a target." - Independent Media Center
  • "But we license car owners, and we register cars, and we have speed limits, and we have child safety restraint laws, and we have seat belt laws ... When's the last time you heard somebody stand up and give a