Signature Quotes: Politics, Part 17

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"O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them." -- Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams, on Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." -- President Teddy Roosevelt, 1915
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." -- Albert Einstein
"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another." -- Milton Friedman
The Goracle told an audience in Germany two years ago that “the entire North Polari(ized) cap will disappear in 5 years.” Sea ice has actually increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.
"Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?" -- Howie Carr
"Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?" -- Mickey Kaus
Keep in mind folks, the only violence at a Tea Party Protest, was four white “liberals” in purple SIEU t-shirts attacking a black man for daring to stray off the leftist plantation to attend a Tea Party Protest.
"It's not racist, it's profiling."
Most Democrats in Congress are really just latte Communists.
Al Gore: sex-crazed poodle
Every middle-class leftwinger I've ever encountered is a highly emotionally disturbed control freak that uses Marxist rhetoric to exorcise their emotional conflicts at the expense of others.
"The difference between the Tea Party and the NAACP is if you are looking for racists at the Tea Party you look at the fringe and if you are looking for racists at the NAACP you look to the stage."
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." -- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"Even more distressing are those good-hearted simpleton non-Muslims who are up in arms defending the rights of Muslims to practice their religion in free societies such as the United States of America. These well-meaning, badly misguided folks don’t realize that practicing Islam requires subverting and destroying any and all non-Islamic beliefs and practices." -— Amil Imani, Iranian born former muslim & democracy activist
“This just makes the democrats look weak, unorganized, cowardly, and unwilling to take a stand for principles they plainly believe in.”
"The anti-war movement was a sham; a cover for violent anarchists." -- Michael Haz
You know the Left has completely lost any semblance of rationality when they hurl the word "bigot" at Alveda King.
"Greedy capitalists get money by trade. Good liberals steal it." -- David Friedman
"It’s the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism." -- RedState Editor and CNN contributor Erick Erickson
“I think the Tea Party couldn’t ask for any better publicity than to be denounced by a millionaire who dodges paying taxes on his yacht.” Actually, make that a near-billionaire who married another man’s fortune.
"Socialism is like a dream, sooner or later you wake up to reality." - William Churchill
"In the liberal imagination, the money is the government’s by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people." -- Matthew Continetti
If you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." -- President Ronald Reagan
“If Juan Williams had said he was nervous around "tea baggers," NPR would have given him a raise.”
"I hate money and Jews." -- Karl Marx
"Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -- Jon Stewart
"Liberals are so open minded and tolerant they think they know how everyone else should live their life. And if you disagree, you’re a racist ignorant close minded bigot."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." -- Ayn Rand
"The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions." -— Ludwig von Mises
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." -— Ayn Rand
"If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner." -- Frédéric Bastiat
"Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up." -- Gov. Sarah Palin
"Leftist are aways quick to change the subject when you start listing actual facts to counter their talking points."
Amazing that the Government hating radical's from 60's are now Gov loving liberals willing to be slaves to it.
"By rushing to politicize the tragedy before any evidence was in, liberals immediately poisoned the political well, and so now whenever a liberal talks in terms of moving away from "violent political rhetoric," "changing the tone" or "ending the climate of hate" it's perceived as a euphemism for attacking Sarah Palin, Fox News, the Tea Party and conservative talk radio." -- Philip Klein
"Consumers are served well by the actions of profit-seeking businessmen; they are only taxed, regulated, and harassed by power-seeking politicians." -- Morris and Linda Tannehill, The Market For Liberty
"There’s a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says ‘we are here because we care about you; we want what’s best for you’. But really what they want is the control of your life." -- Rep. Alan West
“Detractors are more obsessed with [Gov. Palin] than supporters are. And they can’t even explain why they hate her. Ask them about it, and they mumble something about her being stupid. But I’d hook her up to an intelligence test against Joe Biden any day.”
"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help." -- Thomas Sowell
"Civility. It’s not a value, it’s a partisan attack line." -- Ace
"Abuse of power isn’t limited to ‘bad guys’ in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. … I have a reverence for individuality. I’ve always considered myself too individualistic to be either “right-wing” or “left-wing.” I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want — as long as they’re not harming other people. I am a libertarian." -- Clint Eastwood (Parade, 1997)
That awkward moment of reality when liberals try to use the fact that you’re against institutionalized racism to somehow “prove” you’re racist.
“Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” -- Ron Paul
"Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine." -- Peter Schiff
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon." -- George Washington
If you support gay marriage, abortion, and the underprivileged; but attack anyone who presents an opposing opinion, you are not a ”tolerant” person. By only promoting a set of generic set of left wing views, you are nothing more than an undereducated political hipster.
"There was one good thing about Marx; he was not a Keynesian." -- Murry Rothbard
"Marx was a pedophile rapist. Who cares if I can prove it, that’s the same game the liberals play."
"Many thanks to Chrissy Tingles, who makes my job easier every time he returns from a brief hiatus by doubling up on the stupid." -- Stephen Kruiser
"The only thing I fear more than the government shutting down is the government staying open."
"The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own reelection." -- Gov. Sarah Palin
"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom." -- F.A. Hayek
"Che was a cold-blooded, homophobic, Stalinist executioner; I think it’s hilarious how his modern liberal fans, who claim to be on the side of the gay community and peace, don’t seem to mind the disconnect." -- Ms. Daisy Vo
"One thing about the Dems when they want to try to sell something they are very good at syncing the talking points." -- Bruce McQuain
"The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be “materialistic” and “greedy” to want to keep what you have earned. But it is “idealistic” to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself." -- Thomas Sowell
"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees." -- Boris Marshalov
"Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money." -- Joseph Sobran.
"The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical ‘dead white male,’ is the dead white male on horseback." -- David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride, Oxford University Press, 1995
"If everyone from either extreme who threatened to leave America did so, we'd have a 10% reduction in population and a 90% reduction in idiocy."
"A Leftist assumption: Making money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting money does."
I often wonder why Leftists refer to conservatives as "wingnuts". A wingnut is a very useful device that adds versatility wherever it is used. Clearly, Leftists are not even good at abuse. Once they have accused their opponents of racism and Nazism, their cupboard is bare.
"Since this is an era when many people are concerned about “fairness” and “social justice,” what is your “fair share” of what someone else has worked for?" -- Thomas Sowell
"As with George Bush, not only is Sarah Palin far better than her critics give her credit for, she is far better than her critics."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson
According to the "reality based" left, Trig Palin not only hacked Tony Weiner's twitter account, he was the third shooter on the grassy knoll.
"If you want to restore honor to politics you need to demand of men, specifically, that they be better men...manlier men." -- James Poulos
"Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party." -- Andrew Breitbart
"Races didn’t bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world." -- Archibald MacLeish
"I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals." -- Rush Limbaugh
"Social Justice is the left's code for Wealth Redistribution"
"If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative." -- Andrew Klavan
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill
“I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.” -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry
"When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality." -- Herman Caine
"...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -- at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough -- that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of." -- George Orwell
“The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them.
"Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President." -- Bill Whittle
When you are a Progressive, history always began ten minutes ago.
The government has no money of its own; every cent that it spends must be taxed or borrowed from productive individuals.
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises, it costs nothing.” - Edmund Burke
"Raw milk? What are you thinking? Sending your kids to a school of your own choice? What are you, racist?" -- Evil Teabagger
"Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?" -- Judge Andrew Napolitano
"I am not apart of the 99%. I am not apart of the 1%. I am the smallest minority in society. I am an individual."
"The disproportionate anger on the part of progressives is fueled by their dislike of our military." -- Dana Loesch
"What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else." -- Tom Clancy
GM is #1 because it shirked on its debt to the taxpayers and mainly because the Tsunami crippled the Japanese auto industry.
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