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Quotes this Week: Schwarzenegger, Gingrich, John Bolton, Bill Clinton, Kanye West, Tom Friedman and More |
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Schwarzenegger: “”Our job is to recognise the issues that matter to the people the most and to solve them. Issues like health care, balanced budgets, economic development, education reform, public safety, infrastructure and of course global warming and protecting the environment. These are not conservative or liberal issues. They are issues everyone cares about.”
Gingrich: “I think we would clearly have been competitive financially within three weeks, and we literally had not even set up the Web site yet. “But what hit me was it would have been an underdog campaign. I mean, clearly, if you were going to come from behind, I think it would have been a real campaign. I think we would have had a chance to win.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton: “Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities. If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change … The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back.”
The Wall Street Journal: “Giuliani doesn’t need more weird.”
Christian Conservatives: “If the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.â€
Bill Clinton: accused Democratic rivals who criticised his wife of “rewarding the Republican attack machine†that had “beaten up on her for 16 years.”
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq: “Iraq’s leaders must and will take the lead in determining how to achieve these national aspirations. … attempts to partition or divide Iraq by intimidation, force or other means into three separate states would produce extraordinary suffering and bloodshed.”
Tim Rutten, L.A. Times: “One of the world’s truly dangerous men, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left New York a clear winner this week, and he can thank the arrogance of the American academy and most of the U.S. news media’s studied indifference for his victory.”
Kanye West: “I mean, I have a hard time believing that George Bush cares about anyone. So, sidebar, black people also. You know?”
McCain:I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles … personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith,” McCain said. “But that doesn’t mean that I’m sure that someone who is Muslim would not make a good president.”
Michigan Governor Michelle Granholm, on the shutdown of state government: “”Seven months ago, I proposed a comprehensive solution that would have resolved the state’s budget crisis through a combination of budget cuts, government reforms, and new revenue. Since then, the Legislature has failed to agree on my solution or any other. Their failure to act has brought us to this day. They need to act with urgency on a balanced budget and send the bills to my desk.”
Tom Friedman: “9/11 has made us stupid.”
Man…Bolton is craaazy! And that guy was head UN ambassador?
And this is the ambassador to the UN saying he wishes the US could do overthrows again… To the UN. THE UNITED NATIONS.
In Burma: “Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_ article_id=484903
Bolton obviously learned nothing from history. Let’s see…the US supports the Shah, paving the way for the Iranian revolution, Khomeini, and eventually…Ahmadinejad himself. Now we’re claiming the right to start the cycle all over again?