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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
Abraham Lincoln |
"We've begun the work of remaking America."
President Barack Obama |
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste...This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel |
“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”
V.P. Joe Biden |
"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
Senator Barack Obama |
| "I don't think we are going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately; there's going to be potentially some transition process...." |
"I will cut taxes, cut taxes, for 95% of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
Barack Obama |
"...with your natural necessities, like shelter, food, and health care taken care of (by the government), ... we will have the money...to pay the 13% extra taxes...."
Acorn Girl In Video (see right) |
"...as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution...."
Barack Obama |
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos.
The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.
We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure."
Barack Obama |
"You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know -- Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it -- whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations.
That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."
Barack Obama |
| "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,...." - Barack Obama |
"Barack, as Oprah said, is one of the most brilliant men you will meet in our lifetime...Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual...."
Michelle Obama |
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Sir Winston Churchill |
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"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
Thomas Jefferson |
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