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Favorite political quote?

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Originally posted by: Pabster
"I actually voted for the 87 billion...before I voted against it!" - John Kerry
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I wanted to resist having discussion in the thread of quotes, letting the quotes simply be posted, but this one cries out for correction by its dishonesty in the lack of context.

Kerry wanted the funds to be paid for with taxes. Bush wanted the funds spent by borrowing.

Kerry voted against the bill with borrowing, and for the bill with taxes. Bush said he would veto the bill with taxes if it passed, and he signed the bill with borrowing.

So they were equally in favor of the spending with one method of financing, and opposed to spending with the other method of financing. Equally 'flip flopping'.

And yet, this was misreperesented by the Republicans as the most prominent incident to 'prove' John Kerry was a 'flip flopper', in contrast to Bush as not a 'flip flopper'.

The larger context of the quote was that Kerry was further dishonestly accused of simply being against funding the troops, and he was proving that was not the case, by showing how he had voted for the funds when the financing wasn't borrowed, and only voted against them when it was, so the issue was financing, not troop funding. Since Bush threatened to veto the bill if paid for with taxes, he was equally opposed to funding the troops.

Back to the quotes...
 
Upon learning that US President Richard Nixon had called him an asshole, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau responded to the informer:

"I've been called worse things by better men."

😀
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
It's an accurate quote, Craig. You can spin it and attempt to quantify it all you want.
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I said the lie was in the absence of context, not the literal quote. Your pointing out the quote without context has a false impplication; your leaving out Bush's poisition does too.

As for quantifying it - it's a quantity of one quote. Do you know what you are saying with the word 'quantify'?

Apparently not - nor the word 'spin', which you use because you are allergic to the truth, and attack it with mud.

I note the absence of one letter of my post being proven wrong in your response. So much for your claim it's false 'spin'. You clearly can't back up your claims, as usual.
 
He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I see men who are trying to squeeze us,
And taking whatever they can,
While they buy those who try to appease us with scraps from their table.

It gets harder each day to break even.
This wasn't a part of my plan.
Time is right to be fighting or leaving this tower of Babel.

And who's watching over who's watching over you?
Tell me who's telling you what to do what to do?

~ Me 😎
 
Given that Socrates, one of the smartest men who ever lived, and he opined that the younger generation is decidedly inferior to the older generation. Now here we are some 110 plus younger generations later, each worse than the last, its somewhat understandable that we don't have a lick of sense now. And perfectly explains GWB&co. Smart man that Socrates, he drank the hemlock and not the kool aid, and got out while the getting was good.
 
"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much." RR
 
Originally posted by: Lemon law
As I recall, Thomas Jefferson also said something about periodically refreshing the tree of Liberty with the blood of Tyrants. Almost a psychic reference to GWB and Cheney.
And timid old me is willing to settle for their mere jailing.
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Do not fret, there are people far less timid who exist even today. 🙂
 
"Government's attitude towards everything can be summed up in three phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate. If it stops moving, subsidize it."

--Ronald Reagan
 
"The policeman isn't here to create disorder, the police man is here to preserve disorder."
-mayor Richard Daley

"My fellow Americans, I've just signed legislation outlawing Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
-Ronald Reagan
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson.
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Originally posted by: Harvey
He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

~ Benjamin Franklin
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Definitely the two best, and most currently applicable, political quotes of our age.
 
"The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, [our Creator] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain." --Thomas Jefferson to James Fishback, 1809. ME 12:315

?Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours. ? Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.?

J. Reuben Clark Jr., President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, Conference talk on Personal Finances and Welfare, April 1938
 
Don't tread on me, I'll take offense, and accuse of having WMD you see.

Tricky tricky tricky me.

Then I will use WMD to take you out, it will teach you to to never doubt.

I have more WMD than you, but my sins will rebound on you.

Tricky tricky tricky me.
 
"there is no such thing a treason, it's just patriotism" - unknown

"when our spirit is weak we shall muster the strength to defeat our enemy from the few and brave" - Winston Churchill

"what is right is always right" - Winston Churchill.

i'd post the entire speech but it's too long.
 
Originally posted by: WHAMPOM
Universal quote...We have met the enemy and he is us!... POGO
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"If in an effort we become like our enemy, we will be lose, not to our enemy but to ourselves" - Winston Chrurchill

Relevant quote when people are condoning things like Gitmo or waterboarding prisoners.
 
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