Quotes this Week

Chief UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei: “I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now. Even if Iran were to be working on a nuclear weapon … they are at least a few years from having such a weapon”

Giuliani, alienating millions of New Yorkers: “I’m an American League fan and I go with the American League team.”

Obama, on Hillary: “It is absolutely true that we have to make these distinctions clearer. And I will not shy away from doing that.”

Emptywheel, on retroactive immunity: “Effectively, the committee has rewritten the law to accommodate Bush’s actions when he deliberately bypassed his own DOJ.

And in the process, most Democrats on the committee have written a convenient excuse for actions that amount to giving not only the telecoms, but Bush and Gonzales immunity.”

Chris Bowers, on a poll showing that 74% of Republicans don’t know Rudy Giuliani’s stance on the issue of legal same sex unions: “That is why Republicans don’t seem to have a problem with Giuliani’s social moderation: they don’t know he is a social moderate.”

Elyas Bakhtiari, of Ablogistan: “I think this bit of news epitomizes the differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as candidates: Both receive donations and support from the “military-industrial complex,” but Obama’s tends to come from the military side, whereas Hillary’s comes from the defense industry.”

Glenn Greenwald: “The U.S. Army has copied almost exactly the standard model used by the Republican Party’s political arm in trying to manage news for domestic consumption: namely, they deny access to the relevant information only they possess while selectively leaking it to the most extremist and partisan elements of the right-wing noise machine: in this case, the Drudge Report, Weekly Standard, and right-wing blogs.”

Chris Dodd, on Meet the Press: “People want to know the person they’re going to nominate can get elected. I’ve been through eight elections and never lost one. I ran a party nationally. And I’ve brought Democrats and Republicans together. On every single bill I’ve, I’ve authored, I’ve had a Republican co-sponsor, usually a conservative Republican. I think the country wants that kind of leadership again, and I’m very confident, as you point out, with 67 days to go, with people just really looking at this, we’ve got a very good chance to come out of Iowa and win in New Hampshire.”

One of the most senior British commanders in Iraq: “We are tired of firing at people,” he said. “We would prefer to find a political accommodation.”

Staff Sgt. Richard McClary: “I don’t think this place is worth another soldier’s life… They just know back there what the higher-ups here tell them. But the higher-ups don’t go anywhere, and actually they only go to the safe places, places with a little bit of gunfire,” he said. “They don’t ever [expletive] see what we see on the ground.” (via BarbinMD)

Nicole Bell: “It’s Sunday morning, so it’s time once again to let the FOX News panel of Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams to get their wargasm on. It’s absolutely disgusting to watch Brit Hume and Bill Kristol get all flushed and turgid while discussing bunker busting bombs and America’s military might trying to scare all the other nations straight. Big talk from overcompensating little men who are all too brave with other people’s lives.”

Comedian Bill O’ Reilly: “It seems to me, and the studies indicate, that most teachers — high school and college in the United States — are left-wingers. That they bring in a anti-American viewpoint to the sense that they don’t preach about the nobility of America, they teach about the deficits.”

Gerald Ford, on Bill Clinton’s “sex addiction”: “He’s sick - he’s got an addiction. He needs treatment.”

Jane Hamscher: “It is a bit surprising that in this race where womens’ votes mean so much, and both Edwards and Obama trying to stake out that territory so hard, that there is not a stronger female presence in campaign leadership. I mean, really. If there are few people in a decision making capacity who understand the experience they are trying to appeal to, is it any surprise Hillary Clinton is handing them their asses with women?”

Josh Marshall: “We are at least now getting some clarity on the Rudy question. Pretty simple. Even now, at the point when bluffing would have maximum advantage, most of leading conservative and pro-life lights are happy to get behind Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy. The third party talk is basically just a lot of talk.”

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