"The easiest part of the immigration problem to look at is the security aspect. Of course, if random people can easily sneak into a country, that poses a security problem. If a Mexican citizen can sneak across for a better life, what is stopping someone with terrorist motives from doing the same?"
"USA Today ran a story during the Amendment One days, stating, 'Bob Riley was a tax-hating, God-loving, conservative Republican congressman. Then he got himself elected governor of Alabama...'"
"Because we live in a world of 30-second soundbites, most people think that this story began this past January with the publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, but it actually started earlier."
"So in the image that shows Mohammed wearing a bomb-turban, Muslims see a depiction of Muslims as terrorists... and so to stop people from believing that Muslims are terrorists, Muslim extremists set buildings on fire and commit other terrorist acts???"
"Taking notes from the Fox News Channel's playbook, CNN "Headline News" is continuing a national trend to blur the line between real news and commentary/entertainment by adding conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck to its roster. "
"I would say that with respect to comments by the former vice president it’s my understanding that during the Clinton administration there was activity regarding the physical searches without warrants, Aldrich Ames as an example.
"I can also say that it’s my understanding that the deputy attorney general testified before Congress that the president does have the inherent authority under the Constitution to engage in physical searches without a warrant and so those would certainly seem to be inconsistent with what the former vice president was saying today."
"The issue with the Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program is that it violates a federal criminal law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Despite what Gonzales is implying, the Clinton administration never violated FISA and never claimed they could violate FISA. Here’s why:
"1. Prior to 1995, FISA did not cover physical searches. (With Clinton’s signature, the law was expanded to cover physical searches in 1995.) The search of Aldrich Ames home occurred in 1993. It did not violate FISA.
"2. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified in 1994 that the President could conduct warrantless physical searches, before FISA required physical searches to be conducted pursuant to a warrant. Gorelick was arguing that the President could conduct warrantless physical searches in the absence of Congressional action. At no time did she suggest that, after Congress required the President to obtain a warrant, the executive branch could ignore the law, nor is there any evidence the Clinton administration failed to comply with FISA."
"In George W. Bush's America, dissent equals treason, and this fact is voiced by members of the 'liberal media' like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly."
"When a hurricane hits land, you can rest assured that the president will take charge of the situation within six business days."
"We've won the war already, and for the Democrats to say we can't win it -- what kind of a statement is that? And furthermore, one of the fundamental principles we have in America is that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces and attempts to undermine the commander in chief during time of war amounts to treason. I know we have an opportunity to express our points of view, but there is a time when we're engaged in a combat situation that carping criticism against the commander in chief just doesn't cut it. And I think that yes, we have freedom of speech -- of course we do -- but this has gone over the top and I think the Republicans are -- well, they've taken advantage."
"He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
"He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
"He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
"He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
"He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
"He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
"He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
"He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime."
"Maybe some senators were voting because of the upcoming elections rather than for reasons of conscience, but if it means that some pressure is finally being put on the White House, then so be it. The White House's plan for this war is long overdue, and we, as the American public, have a right to know what it will be."
"ASSERTION: In his speech, Bush noted that "more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate - who had access to the same intelligence - voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power."
"CONTEXT: This isn't true.
"The Congress didn't have access to the President's Daily Brief, a top-secret compendium of intelligence on the most pressing national security issues that was sent to the president every morning by former CIA Director George Tenet.
"As for prewar intelligence on Iraq, senior administration officials had access to other information and sources that weren't available to lawmakers.
"Cheney and his aides visited the CIA and other intelligence agencies to view raw intelligence reports, received briefings and engaged in highly unusual give-and-take sessions with analysts."
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war"
-Ann Coulter
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-George H. W. Bush (And you'd figure a President would have more respect for the First Amendment.)
"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
-George W. Bush
"State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."
-James Dobson of Focus on the Family
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
-Jerry "Does anyone still take him seriously?" Falwell
"The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers?"
-Pat Robertson, whom I would like to ask, "If Americans bought and owned slaves, didn't that make them 'slavers' too?"
"[Regarding Hurricane Katrina.]As the fingers get pointed and the blame gets handed out, some will miss the bigger picture that has been exposed by Katrina - the face of poverty. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said recently on the floor of the Senate, 'I hope we realize that the people of New Orleans weren't just abandoned during the hurricane. They were abandoned long ago - to murder and mayhem in the streets, to substandard schools, to dilapidated housing, to inadequate health care, to a pervasive sense of hopelessness.'"
