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"We are not going to let our campaign be
dictated by fact-checkers." Republican campaign operative
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"I'm not familiar with precisely what I
said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was." Mitt Romney
May 2012
in response to a question regarding a statement he had
previously made to Sean Hannity in a Fox News interview |
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"Corporations are people, my friend!"
Mitt Romney
2011 |
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"I no longer
am gonna have to carry the water for people who I think don't
deserve having their water carried." Rush Limbaugh
Nov. 2006
following the 2006 election, in which Democrats won back
majorities in both houses of Congress from Republicans |
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"With respect to the question of
relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for
everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind
of relationship they want to." Vice President Richard
Cheney
father of Mary Cheney, a woman in a committed relationship with
a lesbian partner
2004 |
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"Our enemies are
innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They
never stop thinking about new ways to harm our
country and our people, and neither do we," President
George W. Bush
5 Aug. 2004
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"Maybe
we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom [U.S. State
Department headquarters] to shake things up." Rev.
Pat Robertson
"700 Club," Oct. 2003
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"What we saw on
Tuesday [Taliban-backed sky-jack attack on World
Trade Center and Pentagon], as terrible as it is,
could be minuscule if, in fact, God continues to
... allow the enemies of America to give us
probably what we deserve." Rev.
Jerry Falwell
"700 Club," 13 Sep. 2001
[NOTE: During the interview, Falwell
went on to blame pagans, abortionists, feminists,
gays and lesbians, the ACLU, People for the
American Way—in effect anyone except
religious extremists—for causing the
attack.]
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"They
misunderestimate me." Texas Governor George W. Bush
13 Nov. 2000
Chicago Sun Times |
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"Families is where our nation takes hope,
where our wings take dream." Texas Governor George W. Bush
Oct. 2000
Presidential campaign tour in Wisconsin |
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"If we win, we'll
have a Supreme Court that will back us to the
hilt. If we win, we'll have a [Republican]
president, with at least one of the people that's
running, a president where we work out of their
office. Unbelievably friendly relations." NRA
Vice President Kayne Robinson
Washington Post, 4 May 2000
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"Clearly, there
has been an enormous erosion of purchasing power
over the last 25 years." Sen.
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
calling on the Supreme Court to rule the $1,000
individual contribution limit to candidates
unconstitutionally low
Jun. 1999
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"There ought to be
limits to freedom." George W.
Bush
Austin press conference, May 1999
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"I admit it, the
liberal media were never that powerful, and the
whole thing was often used as an excuse by
conservatives for conservative failures."
William Kristol
editor of the Weekly Standard and
Dan Quayle's former chief of staff
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"A black man
voting for the Republicans makes about as much
sense as a chicken voting for Colonel
Sanders." Buddy Watts
father of House Republican Conference Chairman
J.C. Watts (R-OK) on his son's political
affiliation
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1999
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"The biggest
difference between Richard Nixon claiming
presidential immunity and Bill Clinton claiming
it is, with Nixon, there was evidence of a
crime." John Dean
Nixon's attorney, on CNN "Larry King
Live"
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"The judges need
to be intimidated, they need to uphold the
Constitution. If they don't behave, we're going
to go after them in a big way." House
Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay
Washington Post
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"I really believe
this is merely a matter of [President Clinton's]
lying to protect his family and that's all there
is -- it's not obstruction of justice or not
subornation of perjury."
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
"Meet the Press," Aug. 1998
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"The New
York Times and the Washington
Post are both infested with
homosexuals themselves ... Just about every other
person down there is homosexual or lesbian." Sen.
Jesse Helms (R-NC)
CQ "Breaking News," Jun. 1998
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"There is clearly
no evidence at this stage to prove that campaign
donations led Clinton to make questionable
foreign policy decisions." former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
CNN "Late Edition," May 1998
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"I thank God that
most Republicans are not given to the wild, crazy
notions of the Bob Barrs of the world." Rep.
Ray LaHood (R-IL)
New Republic, Feb. 1998
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"The media likes
to call you people 'dittoheads.' The next time
somebody says you can't think for yourself,
here's what you tell them..." Rush
Limbaugh
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"I'm always voting
for bills I haven't read. We usually don't know
what's in a bill until weeks later when my staff
combs through it to discover the details." Rep.
Steve Largent (R-OK)
justifying his voting record
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"Mr. Clinton
better watch out if he comes down here. He better
have a bodyguard." Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-NC)
threatening the life the President
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"Our culture is
superior. Our culture is superior because our
religion is Christianity and that is the truth
that makes men free." Patrick
Buchanan
ADL Report, 1994
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U.S. Constitution, Amendment I:
"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, or abridging the freedom of
speech or of the press, or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of grievances."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to the
Danbury Baptist Convention, 1802:
"Believing with you that religion is a
matter which lies solely between Man & his God, . . . I
contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people [U.S. Constitution] which declared that their
legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus
building a wall of separation between Church and State."
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"They have
kept us in submission because they have talked
about separation of church and state. There is no
such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the
left, and we're not going to take it anymore." Pat
Robertson
address to American Center for Law and Justice,
Nov. 1993
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"I want you to
just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I
want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you.
Yes, hate is good... We don't want equal time. We
don't want pluralism." Randall
Terry
founder of Operation Rescue
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel,
16 Aug. 1993
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"The feminist agenda ...
encourages women to leave their husbands, kill
their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become lesbians." Pat
Robertson
1992
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"My agenda is in
line with the people of the state of Louisiana
and the majority of Republicans in America." David
Duke
Louisiana GOP Chairman and KKK sympathizer
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"Hitler's success
was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone.
His genius was an intuitive sense of the
mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness
masquerading as morality that was in the hearts
of the statesmen who stood in his path." Patrick
Buchanan
The Guardian, 1992
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"I don't think it
was wrong. I thought it was pretty neat." Col.
Oliver North
on selling arms to terrorists
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"Dr. [Martin
Luther] King is one of the most divisive men in
contemporary history." New
York Daily News
1990
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"If whites become
outnumbered in America, as will certainly happen
if nothing is done, the Republican Party is
doomed." David Duke
GOP spokesman
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"Like all
idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god
for the real, a love of process for a love of
country." Patrick
Buchanan
From the Right, Spring 1990
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"The termites are
in charge now, and that is not the way it ought
to be, and the time has come for a godly
fumigation." Pat Robertson
"700 Club," 18 Aug. 1986
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"You know I could
run for governor but I'm basically a media
creation. I've never done anything. I've worked
for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But
that's not the kind of profile you have to have
to get elected to public office." George
W. Bush
1989
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"I've been
portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true.
I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I
think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners
or niggers." Sen. Jesse Helms
(R-NC)
1985
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"Rail as they will
about 'discrimination,' women are simply not
endowed by nature with the same measures of
single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in
the fiercely competitive world of Western
capitalism." Patrick Buchanan
1983
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"The best minds
are not in government. If any were, business
would steal them away." Ronald
Reagan
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"The Constitution
of the United States, for instance, is a
marvelous document for self-government by
Christian people. But the minute
you turn the document into the hands of
non-Christian and atheistic people they can use
it to destroy the very foundation of our society." Pat
Robertson
"700 Club," 30 Dec. 1981
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"I'd rape a nun if
she got in my way." NRA spokesman
Ted Nugent
Creem magazine, 1975
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"We believe that
the machine gun, sawed-off shotgun, and all
dangerous and deadly weapons should be included
in any kind of bill, and no matter how drastic,
we will support it. The organization I represent
is absolutely favorable to reasonable
legislation." NRA Executive
Vice-President Milton Reckord
testifying before Congress, 1934
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"Beware the
leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is
indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the
blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood
boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will
have no need in seizing the rights of the
citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I
know? For this is what I have done, and I am
Caesar."
Caius Julius
Caesar, Roman general and statesman
ca. 44 BCE |
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Quotes are arranged in
approximately chronological order, latest first,
so that newly added items will usually appear at
the top of the list. |