"If you wanted to pick out a stereotypical swing voter in this election, it would be a white evangelical suburban office park mom in a blue state suburb." - quoted from: The New York Times, online edition, Nov. 9, 2006
"Televised violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on certain members of our society." - From the Surgeon General's Report in 1972, quoted from: The San Antonio-Express News, January 11, 2007, p. 2A
"Arguably the world's most famous athlete [David Beckham] is coming to work in Los Angeles, but there's something you should know.
David Beckham is not joining the Galaxy as an athlete, but as an advertising campaign.
He is coming as soccer swag, a walking Super Bowl commercial, a big-haired billboard." - quoted from: The Los Angeles Times, online edition, January 12, 2007
"A lassies' loo where Scots made a wee bit of history" - quoted from: The Times, January 17, 2007, online edition
"What does Big Brother say about the UK? Since its inception in 2000 it has, more than any other TV show, highlighted our national obsession with trivia." - quoted from: The Telegraph, January 18, 2007, online edition
"In this multimedia age, the danger is not that television influences our elected representatives.
The danger is that politicians are seduced by the very trivia that makes television so popular in the first place." - quoted from: The Telegraph, January 18, 2007, online edition
"[...] taxes are a third rail of U.S. politics — touch it and you die [...]" - quoted from: The Los Angeles Times, online edition, January 31, 2007
"What's the difference between a rodeo clown and a justice of the peace? ... Not much, you still have gotta put up with so much bull." [Former rodeo clown Quail Dobbs, now justice of the peace in Coahoma/TX] - quoted from: Texas Co-Op Power Magazine, February 2007, p. 7
"That we both share English as a second language." [Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., when asked "What's your favourite thing about President Bush?"] - quoted from: The San Antonio Express-News, February 4, 2007, p. 1 H
"The Texas Legislature consists of 181 people who meet for 140 days once every two years. This catastrophe has now occurred sixty-three times." - quoted from: Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (New York, 1991), p. 8
"[…] making fun of the President [George W. Bush] (which, to be honest, is like beating a dead horse) […]" - quoted from: JibJab Newsletter
"A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days." - President George W. Bush, at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner - quoted from: San Antonio Express-News, Sunday, April 1, 2007, page 1H
"What's the difference between a monarchy and a democracy?" - "In a monarchy you only have one liar to deal with." - quoted from: B.C. [cartoon] in: San Antonio Express-News, April 12, 2007, p. 6F
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau, quoted from: Los Angeles Times, online edition, April 21, 2007
“Few of their children in the country learn English... The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages ... Unless the stream of their importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.” - Benjamin Franklin on immigrants, quoted from: The New York Times, July 3, 2007, online edition
"We all know that correct English is no longer taught in most of our schools, but now at last the government seems to agree." - quoted from: The Spectator, online edition, July 28, 2007
"Third. My will is that my sons receive solid and useful education. [...] I wish [them] to be early taught in utter contempt for novels [...]" - Sam Houston, Congressman, Senator, Gouvernor, and President of the Republic of Texas, in "His Last Will and Testament" (2 April 1863); quoted from:James A. Michener, Texas (London, 1985), p. v.
"Indian English suffers from flatulent orotundity, a form of high-flown language that tries to impress but instead obscures." - Jyoti Sanyal, "Indlish"; quoted from: The International Herald Tribune, online edition, Nov. 21, 2007
"This is a quintessentially American sport. It represents the best of America." - Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, to NASCAR supporters in Florida, Washington Post, November 19th; quoted from:
The Economist, online edition, Nov. 22, 2007
"I am a verb." - President Ulysses S. Grant, quoted from: The New York Times Magazine, November 25, 2007, online edition
"It got to the point where there was no thrill for me unless there was a chance for the death penalty." - Jim Williams, state (?) prosecutor in Louisiana, quoted from: The Los Angeles Times, online edition, December 3, 2007
"I will take care to separate the affairs of government from any religion, but I will not separate us from the God who gave us liberty. Nor would I separate us from our religious heritage." - Mitt Romney, Mormon, US presidential candidate; quoted from: The New York Times, Dec. 7, 2007
"My gestalt is that it's more virulent than average [..]" - Gregory C. Gray, director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa, on a new strain of adenovirus; quoted from: The Washington Post, online edition, Dec. 11, 2007
"[...] the only truly inalienable things you'll ever experience are death and taxes." - quoted from: The Los Angeles Times, online edition, Dec. 12, 2007
"By the time she was done, the crowd looked like a Christmas tree left up too long, thinned out and with patchy sad places." - Slate Magazine, about Hillary Clinton's performance in Nashua, New Hampshire
"In a country where the spoils go to the loudest shrieker, this [Barack Obama's genius for making moderation sound exciting] is absolutely revolutionary and very important." - Gail Collins in: The New York Times online edition
"Thus the Roberts Court sticks to doing what it does best: figuring out subtle ways to close the courthouse doors while appearing to be merely sweeping a little doctrinal dust from the court's front steps." - Dahlia Lithwick in: Slate Magazine, Jan. 11, 2008
"Bill Clinton, in his over-the-top advocacy of his wife? candidacy, has at times sounded like a man who? gone off his medication." - quoted from: The New York Times, online edition, Jan. 26, 2008
"In the final analysis, people vote for their wallet — what’s in it, and what’s not in it — more so than Iraq or anything in foreign policy." -
KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN, a former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, discussing the effects of a lagging economy on President Bush’s legacy, quoted from: The New York Times
"He was too New York, too Italian, and he had too many wives." -
DOROTHY KALIADES, of Queens, on the problems with Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential quest,
quoted from: The New York Times
"If a regular USDA Prime steak is a Lexus, Akaushi is a Lamborghini. If a Certified Angus steak is Beethoven's Fifth, Akaushi is his "Ode to Joy'." - quoted from: Texas Monthly, December 2007, p. 145
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