"And not only that, but he [Supreme Court Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy] said in session that he does his own
research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), quoted from The
Washington Post
"Porkers of the world, unite! You have nothing to
lose but your diets!." John Tierney in The
Washington Post
"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits
millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same
time, and yet remain lonesome". T.S. Eliot - quoted from:
The
Guardian Unlimited, online edition
"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation
that will make—it would hope—put a free press's mind at
ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't
see." G.W. Bush in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2005 -
quoted from: Slate
Magazine, Bushisms of the Day
"The masochists of the HHWSC have struck a tremendous
blow against the nanny state. We salute them, while reserving
our right not to follow them into the icy waters of Hampstead
ponds in mid-winter." quoted from: The
Daily Telegraph, online edition
"It's in our country's interests to find those who would
do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." George W.
Bush, quoted from: Slate
Magazine
"But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching
since that first year when he tried to milk the horse."
She paused. "What's worse, it was a male horse." - The First
Lady, Laura Bush, on her husband, George W. Bush, at the
annual White House Correspondents Assn. dinner on Saturday,
April 30, 2005 - quoted from: The
Los Angeles Times, online edition
"We now have far too many exams all told, and far,
far too many dull exams, in which there is no real time
limit, and which are therefore about as mentally stimulating
as watching a decomposing lobster." - Boris Johnson
in: The
Daily Telegraph
"Being born in the elite in the U.S. gives you a constellation
of privileges that very few people in the world have ever
experienced. Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages
unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada."
- David I. Levine, an economist at the University of California,
Berkeley; quoted from:The
New York Times
"The weather is like the government: always in the
wrong." - Jerome K. Jerome, quoted from: USA Today,
May 20, 2005, p. 4A
"Wer aber im Spagat durch die politische Arena rutscht,
darf sich nicht wundern, dass andere ihm in die Weichteile
treten." - Miriam Meckel; quoted from: Welt am Sonntag,
29.05.2005, p. 14
"A welfare state designed in the era of bacon, eggs
and Lucky Strikes cannot expect to survive in an age of
'active seniors' who wash down their Viagra with soy milk
and think a six-pack is something you get at the gym."
- quoted from: The
Los Angeles Times, online edition
"Extra Bavariam nulla vita, et si est vita, non est
ita."-Slogan on a mug distributed by the CSU during
the last federal elections, quoted from: Kölnische
Rundschau, online edition
"Stonehenge is so close to the busy A303 that it resembles
a prehistoric petrol station." - quoted from: The
Economist, online edition
"There are many schools, and even prestigious colleges,
where students can spend years without getting any history
at all. Sad as this is, these students are probably better
off than those who get a history that is nothing but a diatribe
against everything that Americans have done since landing
on these shores." - Thomas Sowell; in: Capitalist
Magazine
"Costing a little more than a buck per British citizen
annually, Queen Elizabeth II and her tightfisted clan can
be considered the Wal-Mart of royalty." - quoted from:
San Antonio Express-News, Sunday, July 3rd, 2005, p. 3H
"[...] there's no turning back for this cereal-crunchin',
muffin-munchin', toast-and-jam-slammin', juice-squeezin',
migas-and-machaca-consumin', chorizo-and-chilaquiles-chompin',
tortilla-tastin', kolache-smackin', bagel-bitin', biscuit-and-gravy-soppin',
huevos-rancheros-savorin', French toast-flippin', heapin'
helpin' of hash browns-hoistin', croissant-flakin', milk-drinkin',
oatmeal-stirrin', yoghurt-spoonin', berry-pickin', melon-slicin',
fruit-peelin', pancake-stackin', cinnamon-roll eatin', sausage-forkin',
grits-grabbib', bacon-and-eggs-lovin', donut-dunkin', waffle-worshippin'
breakfast believer." - quoted from: Texas Highways
Magazine, September 2005, p. 40
"In most states this [a state fair] means a week-long
frenzy of grease-gulping, rollercoasters and pig-racing,
as well as more civilised activities such as goat-milking
and quilting." - quoted from: The
Economist, online edition, Aug. 4th, 2005
"Wahlkampf ist eine Dummheitsverschwörung. [...] Die
Ankündigung der heißen Phase des Wahlkampfes ist das Signal
zur endgültigen freiwilligen Verblödung." - quoted
from: F.A.Z.,
online edition
"Women should be dressed in white like all other domestic
appliances." - Formula One Boss Bernie Ecclestone;
quoted from: San Antonio Express-News, Friday, August 26,
2005, p. 7B
"England has become a disgusting and terrifying place,
populated by what she [Author Zadie Smith] calls 'aspirational
arseholes'." - quoted from: The
Guardian, online edition
"[...] Americans tend to feel uncomfortable with wine.
Puritan instincts live on: an 18-year-old can vote, marry
or die in Iraq, but cannot legally drink a glass of wine."
- quoted from: The
Economist, September 10, 2005, online edition
"'It's going to cost whatever it costs.' That phrase
should be the title of some future history of the Bush era."
- Sebastian Mallaby in: The
Washington Post, online edition
"The appointments of top judges in other countries
barely make the news. In America they have often been a
political circus." - quoted from: The
Economist, online edition, Sept. 15th, 2005
"‘Man is a creature who stands somewhere between the
angels and the French." - Mark Twain, quoted from:
The
Spectator, August 27, 2005, online edition
"It's not as bad as Caligula putting his horse in
the Senate." - The National Review on its website
on George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers for the
Supreme Court; quoted from: The
Economist, Oct. 6th. 2005, online edition
"The difference from after the Miers nomination was like
being at a morgue versus being at a combination of a wedding
reception, Super Bowl party and bar mitzvah." - Jordan Lorence,
a lawyer for the Christian conservative Alliance Defense
Fund, on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme
Court, quoted from: The
New York Times, online edition
"Our partisan, high-dollar judicial selection system has diminished
public confidence in our courts, damaged our reputation throughout
the country and around the world, and discouraged able lawyers
from pursuing a judicial career." - Then-Texas-Chief Justice Tom Phillips, a Republican, in 2003, quoted from: The
Washington Post, online edition, Nov. 5, 2005
"Hello, I'm Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150." - quoted from: The New York Times, online edition, Sunday, November 20, 2005
"When did everybody get the un-American idea that the president is answerable to America?" - Maureen Dowd in: The New York Times, online edition, November 30, 2005
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress." - Mark Twain, quoted from: San Antonio Express-News, January 25, 2006, p. 7B
"'A big brain is not a prerequisite' for teaching." - quoted from: Smithsonian Magazine, March 2006, p. 8
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." - G.W. Bush in an interview with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006
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