"50 SILLY REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE QUOTES"
* "When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal." -
Richard M. Nixon
* "These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding
fathers." Ronald Reagan introducing the Mujahideen leaders, 1985
* "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is
a nation that suffers from incredible disease." - President George W.
Bush
* "The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them."
- Rush Limbaugh
* "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a
small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they
breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person
ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think
too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got
to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better." - South
Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, arguing against government food
assistance for poor residents.
* "The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews." -
Jerry Falwell
* "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you." - Rep.
Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina)
* "We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed
midgets." - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
* "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a
literacy test." - George W. Bush
* "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier
access to the mainstream of society." - Rush Limbaugh
* "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the
joy of Chanukah." - President George W. Bush
* "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one
study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful
gas." - Rep. Michelle Bachmann
* "The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or
even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a
liberal media bias." - Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)
* "He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a
triangle - the gay pride symbol." - Jerry Falwell's warning to parents
that "Tinky Winky," a character on Teletubbies, may be gay
* "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." -
Dan Quayle
* "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about
a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to
leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson
* "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as
it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."
- Sarah Palin
* "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living
language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate
it!'" - Sarah Palin
* "Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant --
they're quite clear -- that we would create law based on the God of the
bible and the Ten Commandments." - Sarah Palin
* "What I don't know is what the unexpected might be." - John McCain
* "We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly
given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border." - John McCain (the
countries share no common border)
* "I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle
* "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about
another Democrat president." - Ann Coulter
* "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine
flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president,
Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's
an interesting coincidence." - Rep. Michele Bachmann
* "We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." - Ann Coulter
* "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - George W.
Bush
* "Do you have blacks, too?" - George W. Bush
* "We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to
physically intimidate liberals." - Ann Coulter
* "When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just
like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always
complaining." - Glenn Beck
* "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what
happened inside this Oval Office." - George W. Bush
* "Well, I learned a lot...I went down to (Latin America) to find out
from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all
individual countries" - Ronald Reagan
* "I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate
social tensions and ought to be encouraged." - Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia
* "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" - George
W. Bush
* "Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care
system." - Rush Limbaugh
* "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when
standards are high and results are measured." - George W. Bush
* "Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions." - Jerry
Falwell
* "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator." - George W. Bush
* "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of
itself." - Ronald Reagan
* "Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are
married to them." - Jerry Falwell
* "It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time
ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were
originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third,
or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They
said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True
story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have
been cursed by one thing after the other." - Pat Robertson
* "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's
punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell
* "Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan
* "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we." - George W. Bush
* "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably
in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool
me -- you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush
* "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs
aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
- George W. Bush
* "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles." - Ronald Reagan
* "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." - George W. Bush
* "I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than
the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started." -
Donald Rumsfeld
* "She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here
with her underwear, Thursday. And so, we had made love Wednesday -- a lot!
And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going up and down the stairs, and you're
dripping out of me!' So messy!" - State Rep. Mike Duvall (R-Calif.) on a
live mic referring to an affair with a lobbyist
* "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters
and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." - George W. Bush
* "I think I was unprepared for war." - George W. Bush
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