Quotes of note
August 25, 2007
"Our view is that if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run
the White House."
MICHELLE OBAMA
at a campaign stop in Iowa, in what was widely interpreted as a swipe
Hillary Clinton
"Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of
Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions
of innocent citizens, whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new
terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘reeducation camps,’ and ‘killing fields.’ "
PRESIDENT BUSH
addressing members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Wednesday
"On reflection we have come to share the view . . . that the
consequences of those actions were indeed tantamount to genocide."
ABRAHAM FOXMAN
national director on reversing the Anti-Defamation League’s position
on the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
"God will surf with the devil if the waves are good."
DORIAN PASKOWITZ
an 86-year-old Hawaiian surfer who donated 12 surfboards to a community in
the Gaza Strip in hopes of promoting peace
"In just three weeks, General David Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his
long awaited report on the Iraq surge. Will he say it’s a success, thus
vindicating the White House? Or will he say it’s a failure, which somehow
also will vindicate the White House?"
JON STEWART
"If ‘none of the above’ does get the Republican nomination, you know two
things will happen: a) the Democrats will find a way to lose to him, and b)
Bush will try to call and congratulate him."
BILL MAHER
"They lost the game, but they won the hearts of everyone in the town."
ED DANISH
Walpole
on the performance of the town’s team in the Little League World Series
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