Day: November 8, 2010

Verbatim

Buck Banks

My view of military force would be not to just neutralize their nuclear program…but to sink their Navy, destroy their Air Force, and deliver a decisive blow to their Revolutionary Guard. In other words: neuter that regime, destroy their ability to fight back and hope that the people inside Iran would have a chance to take back their government and be good neighbors to the world in the future.

— SC. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), speaking at an international security forum in Canada, sounding a lot like the Bush-era “bomb them back to the Stone Age” rhetoric. Neuter, indeed.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

If you look at the U.S., you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate — they can’t read. I’ll bet you a bunch of these people
don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here, only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.

— New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, warning Americans to stop blaming the Chinese for their country’s problems.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

There doesn’t seem to be anybody in the White House who’s got any idea what it’s like to lie awake at night worried about money and worried about things slipping away. They’re all intellectually smart. They’ve got their numbers. But they don’t feel any of it, and I think people sense that.

— Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D), quoted by the Washington Post.