Quotes LXXIV



"I think my husband is the right person to frighten people.”
-- Sandra Roeloffs, Wife of Mikheil Saakashvilli, http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/sep/22/00008/
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"They acted “as if they had been given an order.”
--Putin congatulating Western Media, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=19894
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"You never know how the past is gonna turn out."
-- The Film, "I'm Not There"
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"We never know what will happen yesterday."
--Old Soviet Era joke
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"The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel."
-- Ann Lewis, Link
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I am not a fan of conspiracy theories neither am I a fan of black-or-white descriptions, but I cannot help but say the following. After a while our close partner Condoleezza Rice arrived, and after that the guy acted differently. He stopped calling, he said: "We don’t need the meeting in Sochi, maybe at the end of the year". Please: that’s your business. He started to prepare for war.

... This is a fairly banal thing, but it's true.

-- Medvedev, Transcript from Valdai Club
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Americans are regarded as occupiers in Iraq. Are Russians seen as occupiers in South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
-- Peter Lavelle
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"No one knows what war is like other than my family, period."
-- Meghan McCain
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"Nobody could have imagined that the hijacker's plan was to fly these sub prime loans into Wall Street."
-- Sweejak
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“Eventually we would have chased them away, but we would have had to go to the mountains and grow beards. That would have been a tremendous national philosophical and emotional burden.”
-- Mikheil Saakashvili
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I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.
-- President Dale, "Mars Attacks"
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"How could Stalin afford to buy all these factories?"
-- Franklin Roosevelt
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"Russia matters nothing to me; what matters is to achieve world socialist revolution."
-- Lenin
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The tallest Arab ever wanted dead or alive by a sitting U.S. president is still at large, but by jingo, we got the drop on his chauffer.
--Larissa Alexandrovna
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The powers to be want to have yet another war, destroy yet another people.
Through my whole life I have seen war. A whole century. From beginning to end. One war always more elegantly and cruelly destructive than the previous one.
-- Reta Svjagintsev
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"Mr. President, we must not allow an icebreaker gap!"
-- Yoshie
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"The US does not believe in spheres of influence."
-- Under Secretary of Defence Eric Edelman, Link
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"But regardless of whose fault it is, most politicians today are not human beings. You want to pry open their mouths and shout into the darkness, 'Hello! Is there a human being in there?'
-- Charley Reese
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"I can come to the floor but I have to use a special door, I can't bring my staff, I must be chaperoned by an RNC staffer at all times and I am required to leave my credentials with the RNC,"
-- Ron Paul, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/200893194738167535.html
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... "But just because you weren't welcome, that's no reason not to speak," Colbert objected. "I mean, certainly Bush spoke, and he was not welcome."

"Could you have gotten a slot if you'd played ball with those guys?" Colbert continued.

"Yes," Paul replied

"What would it have meant to you?" Colbert asked. "What would you have to have given up?"

"Everything I believed in," Paul stated.
--- Colbert interview with Ron Paul, Link
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McCain cares more about the Georgia of Josef Stalin than he cares about the Georgia of Ray Charles
-- Bill Kaufman, Link
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"I am endlessly fascinated with the lack or resources the MSM turns out to have.

Here I sit, in my humble basement, with direct feeds from Interfax, RT (or almost any other TV) access to thousands and thousands of websites.
Total Cost
$1K/year for Interfax
$30/month for highspeed
about $2K worth of computer I got back in Y2K (speaking of lousy MSM coverage).

CNN pays more than that in a day for hairspray!"

Amazing."
-- Forum Snip
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"I want to have a dialogue with the Russians. I want them to get out of Georgian territory as quickly as possible. And I am interested in good relations between the United States and Russia. But in the twenty-first century, nations don’t invade other nations."
-- John McCain
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“America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these ‘isms’ wouldn’t to-day be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives.”
-- Winston Churchill, 1936, Link
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People who use "conspiracy theory" as a synonym for "untruth" seem to naively believe that there are no conspiracies.
-- Floyd Webster Rudmin, Conspiracy Theory Inside Out
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I am landlord to my own inertia.
-- Dana

Posted: Wed - September 24, 2008 at 01:57 PM            

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