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I’d much rather know if I’m secure in my job. But if I can’t know that, at least I can know the status of my pizza.
— Barry Glassner, sociology professor at the University of California, on the national obsession with tracking, quoted in USAToday.
You know, make my day.
— Sen. Joe Lieberman, interviewed on CNN, about reports that actor Alec Baldwin could challenge him in 2012.
“Dreams, they seem to cost money but money costs some dreams.”
—The Hold Steady, from their song, “Yeah Sapphire” on the CD, “Stay Positive”
I think health care is a privilege. I wouldn’t call it a right.
— Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), quoted by the Charleston Post & Courier.
If she had a political strategy in mind, I would think she would have an organized sequence of writings and thoughts to pass on. These appear to be more spur of the moment — reacting to issues of the day rather than embodying any broad political strategy.
— GOP fundraiser Fred Malek, quoted by CBS News, on Sarah Palin’s Facebook postings.
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
— Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, writing on her Facebook page Friday to promulgate the latest disinformation on the health-care debate.
I expect to be held responsible, but I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.
— President Obama, quoted by the Roanoke Times, at a fundraiser in Virginia.
You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood… A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child — who there’s not a passport for — so is in cahoots with someone… to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist on a government roll somewhere back into the country and has the amazing foresight to place birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers?
— White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, quoted by ABC News , on polls that shows large numbers still question where President Obama was born.
I think that he is a good person, and good-intentioned. But I believe he didn’t serve in government long enough to understand really how things work … He really does not have an understanding of how Congress operates.
— Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), in a radio interview, on President Obama.
The votes you’re going to have to cast, whether it’s guns or whether it’s abortion or whether it’s any one of the hot-button items, finishes you as a national political leader in this country. You just can’t do it. It’s not possible.
— Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), quoted in “The Battle for America 2008,” advising then Sen. Barack Obama to run for president sooner rather than later.
