So, ah, how would you go around repressing people then?
My favorite stupid thing a politician said:
One term Congressman Fred Hineman (I probably mispelled his name) was elected in 1994, defeating David Price in NC’s 4th district. During a press conference regarding reforming welfare, Chief Hineman described himself as “lower middle-class.” In addition to his congressional salary, he recieved a very generous pension from the Raleigh Police Department. IIRC, his annual income was more than $180K.
Either that, or just expressing his innermost dreams and wishes…
Oh, yeah, the last five years of the Bush Administration have been such a hallmark of bipartisan cooperation, checks and balances, and the carefully-controlled throttling of executive powers. :rolleyes:
He might have said it with tongue-in-cheek, but you know what they say about actions and words.
This thread made me go find an old email that had a link to things Al Gore did NOT say. I’ve never voted for him in the three chances I had, but let’s at least tell the truth about him.
The second quote was cited in Michael Moore’s film F9/11. I know a lot of people consider Moore to be a complete fabricator, but one thing he never did was synthesize quotes. Out of context, occasionally, but never actually falsified.
Bergenfield, New Jersey’s mayor Richard Bohan at a press conference yesterday, defending Bergenfield’s Fire Chief decision not to evacuate a 24 unit apartment building when a neighbor called compaining of the gas odor:
Anyone take your shoes off and put your in that man’s boots
The building exploded, killing three people and displacing 24 families on December 13th.
“There is much to be said and done about the man-made annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years.” - Michael Moore.
“My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state.”–Governor Gray Davis
“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”- Arnold Schwarzenegger
This one is just too damn good:
“But today, Hillary, I need to know if I can count on you to stand by my side in my campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton. I need you and every New Yorker on my side. But most important in this difficult campaign, I need people like you who I can trust.” --New York Republican Senate candidate Jeanine Pirro, accidentally sending a fundraising appeal to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.” --Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary and author of “The Book of Virtues”
“So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” --Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Astrodome in Houston
Does anyone remember the exact quote where Bush mentioned how Trent Lott’s vacation home was destroyed in the hurricane?
“Everybody kept their shoes there. The maids…everbody.” -Imelda Marcos denying all six hundred pairs of designor shoes were her’s.
“I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.” -former Secretary of the Interior James Watt
“If you want an example of the failures of socialism, don’t go to Russia. Come to America, and see the American Indian reservations.” -James Watt.
“On the surface, selling arms to a country that sponsors terrorism, of course, clearly, you’d have to argue it’s wrong, but it’s the exception sometimes that proves the rule.” -George Bush (the elder)
Michael Moore is a politician? I mean sure, he was elected to his local school board when he was 18 so he could get his principal fired, but is he, today, a politician?
