“I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”

– Senator Hillary Clinton

Venue: Boston Globe’s editorial board

Reference / Context Source: The Boston Globe

Impeaching Bush-Cheney could ignite a movement to promote truth, reconciliation and reparations to the world for exporting neoconservative fascism to their countries.

– Columnist Peter Byrne

Venue: bomemian.com column March 13 2007
Reference / Context Source: bohemian.com

 “If there had been a better sense of preparation, if we had a leadership that was more mature,”  …“We did not fight back in the same way that the British fought the IRA or the Spanish government fought the Basques here. Terrorism is a manageable action. It can be lived with.”

– Film maker Oliver Stone

Venue: San Sebastian Film Festival,  Sept 28 2006

Reference / Context Source:  MSNBC

“It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn’t be New Orleans”……..”This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.”

–New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in New Orleans January 16 2006

Reference / Context Source: breitbart.com

“Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in the this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called. He’s got to go out there and say something about this woman who’s going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.”

– DNC Chairman Howard Dean

Venue: MSNBC “Hardball” Interview October 5, 2005

Reference / Context Source: MSNBC Transcript

“Well, I would say that in the year 2000 the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process. There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president. He received the most votes nationwide and in my opinion he also received the most votes in Florida. And the decision was made, as you know, by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the US Supreme Court. I would say in 2000 there was a failure. The year 2004 is hard to grade. I don’t have any detailed information about what actually went on in Ohio. If Ohio had gone one way or the other it would have changed the outcome of the election. And the only thing that I know about Ohio was that there’s general consensus, that the secretary of state of Ohio, who was responsible for the administration of elections was highly partisan in his public approach and perhaps even in his private administration but I don’t know about that.”

– Former President Jimmy Carter

Venue: Speech at American University, September 19 2005

Reference / Context Source: american.edu

If one person criticizes [our sheriffs], or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me - one more word about it after this show airs and I - I might likely have to punch him - literally.”

– Senator Mary Landrieu

Venue: ABC “This Week” broadcast September 4 2005

Reference / Context Source: BusinessWeek

“The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar”

– Helen Thomas

Venue: Interview with Albert Eisele for The Hill newspaper, July 28 2005

Reference / Contex Source: The Hill

“On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ….. On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor. If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime–Pol Pot or others–that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”

– Senator Dick Durbin

Venue: U.S. Senate

Reference / Context Source: Congressional Record

“You bet we might have … ”

– Senator John Kerry. in response to question on if he would have gone to war in Iraq

Venue:  Press confrence in Jefferson City Missouri August 5, 2004

Reference / Context Source: Boston Herald