Category: Verbatim

Verbatim

Buck Banks

Some in the GOP — it’s their last shot. It’s their last chance. We will lose faith, and we will be disappointed and disenchanted from them if they start straying from the bedrock principles … if they start straying, then why not a third party?

— Polebrity Sarah Palin, to Fox News, suggesting a third political party could form out of this year’s Tea Party movement.

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Buck Banks

So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that.

— Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R), quoted by the Las Vegas Sun, speaking to the Hispanic Student Union at Rancho High School.

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Buck Banks

Who cares? I want to get a tow truck and tow it away, just as we had to get a tow truck to pull the economy of our country out of the ditch that the Republicans drove us into.

— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by CBS Sunday Morning, sticking to the Dems’ automotive metaphor when asked for her reaction to the “Fire Pelosi” bus the RNC is driving around the country.

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Buck Banks

You can choose who your partner is. I think that birth has an influence, like alcoholism and some other things … But I think that, basically, you have a choice.

— Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck (R), in a debate on Meet the Press, when pressed on his view that being gay is a choice.

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Buck Banks

I think that you’re misinterpreting those commercials. I’m not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence. What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That’s the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists; we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don’t know why they’re coming. So we have to secure all of our borders and that’s what that was about, is border security. Not just our southern border, but our coastal border and our northern border.

— Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R), not very convincingly defending her campaign ads that use images of dark-skinned men and a map of Mexico, the Las Vegas Sun reported. In fact, Angle suggested they might be terrorists coming from Canada.

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Buck Banks

I’ll put it to you this way about the Tea Party: Anybody that would put Sarah Palin to the top of their list will never get me. She’s a quitter.

— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I), in an interview with Fancast, adding that “she was completely unqualified. I had more qualifications than she did.”

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Buck Banks

When something is really important to us — like football — we care about the facts. If ever there was an example of not watching the game film, this is it. The game film shows the facts.

— Bill Clinton, quoted by the New York Times, urging voters to hold Republicans accountable for their role in creating the country’s economic problems.

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Buck Banks

I was in the middle of eating a kosher pastrami sandwich. While I was eating it, they come running and they say, ‘Paladino became gay!’ I said, ‘What?’ And then they showed me the statement. I almost choked on the kosher salami.

— Rabbi Yehuda Levin, quoted by the New York Times, when told New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) apologized for his attack on gays.