Quote(s) for the week (national and world special edition).
1) "We going to solve this (immigration) problem. We are not going to run people down. We are not going to scapegoat people. We are going to tell the bigots to shut up and we are going to get this done."
- The once lovable U. S. Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, on opposition to the immigration "compromise" farce.
2) "If the Democrats can't win the Presidency in 2008, they'll never win the Presidency."
- DAVID KEENE, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, on the decline of President Bush's approval rating and growing discontent within the Republican Party.
3) "This guy thinks he's a monarch, and that's scary as hell."
- MICKEY EDWARDS, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, on what he perceives to be President Bush's unchecked executive power.
4) "Your failure to heed our demands [means you will] experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech."
- ADAM YEHIYE GADAHN, an American member of al-Qaeda who is also known as Azzam al-Amriki, in a newly released video.
5) "I would like to suggest...that maybe we give Paul Wolfowitz a new job and send him over [to Iraq] as mayor since the neocons got us in over there."
- Rep. WALTER JONES (R-N.C.), following Wolfowitz's resignation as president of the World Bank.
6) "The people of Darfur are crying out for help, and they deserve it."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, who BELATEDLY recognized the "GENOCIDE" in Dafur, and tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan.
7) "All he proved was that the anti-Kerry vote was bigger than the anti-Bush vote."
- NEWT GINGRICH, the former Speaker of the House, on Bush advisor Karl Rove and his 2004 Presidential campaign strategy, which Gingrich recently called "manically dumb".
8) "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol... while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
- U.S. activist CINDY SHEEHAN, whose son Casey was killed in action in Baghdad in 2004, announcing the end of her anti-war campaign.
9) "The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list."
- LAURENS DRILLICH, Chairman of Dutch broadcaster BNN, defending its latest reality TV show in which three contestants will compete for the kidneys of a terminally ill woman.
10) "Like those who came before them, they did not want war, but they answered the call when it came."
- President BUSH, honoring the fallen troops on Memorial Day.
11) "Most of us don't know what we're fighting for anymore. We're serving our country and friends, but the only reason we go out every day is for each other."
- Sgt. KEVIN O'FLARITY, a Delta Force squad leader in Iraq, who learned after a battle that among the enemy dead were at least two Iraqi Army soldiers that American forces had helped train and arm.
12) "Sen. McCain required a flack jacket, 10 armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles...to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago."
- Sen. BARACK OBAMA, after McCain attacked his opposition to the war funding bill.
13) "It sounds ridiculous, but you feel guilty that you're back home safe. Our country is engaged in a war. I felt it was my responsibility as a leader in the Army to continue."
- Major DAVID ROZELLE, a 34-year-old amputee from Austin, Texas, who returned to Iraq after losing his right foot to a land mine.
14) "Alabama's a different state today and we should be proud of it."
- Alabama Governor BOB RILEY, in an official resolution signed yesterday apologizing for the state's role in slavery. Alabama is the fourth Southern state to pass a slavery apology, following Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
15) "Yet I believe, as do many biologists and people of faith, that the process of creation — and indeed life today — is sustained by the hand of God in a manner known fully only to him."
- Senator SAM BROWNBACK (R-Ka.), in a column in the New York Times. Brownback was one of three candidates at the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month to raise his hand when asked if he did not believe in evolution.
16) "He can talk to the President in a candid way, in sort of a family way, that almost nobody else can."
- White House Chief of Staff JOSHUA BOLTEN, describing top Bush adviser Dan Bartlett, who announced today that he is resigning effective July 4th.
17) "I want to address a couple of the key issues that people are addressing. If you want to kill a bill, then you just go around America saying, this is amnesty. In other words, there are some words that illicit strong reactions from our fellow citizens. Amnesty is when a person breaks the law and is completely forgiven for having done so. This bill isn't amnesty. For those who call it amnesty, they're just trying to, in my judgment, frighten people about the bill."
- UNBELIEVABLE spoken words by President Bush on the "Amnesty" immigration bill.
- The once lovable U. S. Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, on opposition to the immigration "compromise" farce.
2) "If the Democrats can't win the Presidency in 2008, they'll never win the Presidency."
- DAVID KEENE, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, on the decline of President Bush's approval rating and growing discontent within the Republican Party.
3) "This guy thinks he's a monarch, and that's scary as hell."
- MICKEY EDWARDS, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, on what he perceives to be President Bush's unchecked executive power.
4) "Your failure to heed our demands [means you will] experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech."
- ADAM YEHIYE GADAHN, an American member of al-Qaeda who is also known as Azzam al-Amriki, in a newly released video.
5) "I would like to suggest...that maybe we give Paul Wolfowitz a new job and send him over [to Iraq] as mayor since the neocons got us in over there."
- Rep. WALTER JONES (R-N.C.), following Wolfowitz's resignation as president of the World Bank.
6) "The people of Darfur are crying out for help, and they deserve it."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, who BELATEDLY recognized the "GENOCIDE" in Dafur, and tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan.
7) "All he proved was that the anti-Kerry vote was bigger than the anti-Bush vote."
- NEWT GINGRICH, the former Speaker of the House, on Bush advisor Karl Rove and his 2004 Presidential campaign strategy, which Gingrich recently called "manically dumb".
8) "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol... while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
- U.S. activist CINDY SHEEHAN, whose son Casey was killed in action in Baghdad in 2004, announcing the end of her anti-war campaign.
9) "The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list."
- LAURENS DRILLICH, Chairman of Dutch broadcaster BNN, defending its latest reality TV show in which three contestants will compete for the kidneys of a terminally ill woman.
10) "Like those who came before them, they did not want war, but they answered the call when it came."
- President BUSH, honoring the fallen troops on Memorial Day.
11) "Most of us don't know what we're fighting for anymore. We're serving our country and friends, but the only reason we go out every day is for each other."
- Sgt. KEVIN O'FLARITY, a Delta Force squad leader in Iraq, who learned after a battle that among the enemy dead were at least two Iraqi Army soldiers that American forces had helped train and arm.
12) "Sen. McCain required a flack jacket, 10 armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles...to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago."
- Sen. BARACK OBAMA, after McCain attacked his opposition to the war funding bill.
13) "It sounds ridiculous, but you feel guilty that you're back home safe. Our country is engaged in a war. I felt it was my responsibility as a leader in the Army to continue."
- Major DAVID ROZELLE, a 34-year-old amputee from Austin, Texas, who returned to Iraq after losing his right foot to a land mine.
14) "Alabama's a different state today and we should be proud of it."
- Alabama Governor BOB RILEY, in an official resolution signed yesterday apologizing for the state's role in slavery. Alabama is the fourth Southern state to pass a slavery apology, following Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
15) "Yet I believe, as do many biologists and people of faith, that the process of creation — and indeed life today — is sustained by the hand of God in a manner known fully only to him."
- Senator SAM BROWNBACK (R-Ka.), in a column in the New York Times. Brownback was one of three candidates at the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month to raise his hand when asked if he did not believe in evolution.
16) "He can talk to the President in a candid way, in sort of a family way, that almost nobody else can."
- White House Chief of Staff JOSHUA BOLTEN, describing top Bush adviser Dan Bartlett, who announced today that he is resigning effective July 4th.
17) "I want to address a couple of the key issues that people are addressing. If you want to kill a bill, then you just go around America saying, this is amnesty. In other words, there are some words that illicit strong reactions from our fellow citizens. Amnesty is when a person breaks the law and is completely forgiven for having done so. This bill isn't amnesty. For those who call it amnesty, they're just trying to, in my judgment, frighten people about the bill."
- UNBELIEVABLE spoken words by President Bush on the "Amnesty" immigration bill.
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