quotedude’s Edited Quotes

Miliband Minor’s new generation of Labour politicians will not be consistently, wholeheartedly Left-wing: they will not be consistently anything. They will be incoherent, self-contradictory, having-it-all-ways opportunists.

Why is it so difficult for people to grasp the advantages of a free market?... Only a little over a decade ago, the centralized planning of the Eastern bloc was exposed as having created a squalid, poverty-stricken abyss. Meanwhile, corrupt running-dog lackeys of the capitalist system here in America managed to produce a society in which the poorest citizens have televisions, refrigerators, telephones, and the opportunity to appear on the Jerry Springer Show.

Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate. The audience is alive to it.

Teddy Kennedy crawls out of Boston Harbor with a quart of scotch in one pocket and a pair of pantyhose in the other, and Democrats hail him as their party’s leader.

Well I think we do have to define torture. One man’s torture is another man’s CIA-sponsored swim lesson.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

Josh Lyman: You know what, C.J.? I really think I'm the best judge of what I mean, you paranoid Berkeley shiksa feminista... Wow, that was way too far.
C.J. Cregg: No, no. Well, I've got a staff meeting to go to and so do you, you elitist, Harvard, fascist, missed-the-dean's-list-two-sem esters-in-a-row Yankee jackass.

Sam Seaborn: You're going back to Smith College, the cradle of feminism, to argue in opposition to the Equal Rights Ammendment?
Ainsley Hayes: And get some decent pizza, yeah.
Sam Seaborn: They're gonna hate you.
Ainsley Hayes: Sam, I'm a straight Republican from North Carolina. You don't think they hated me the first time around?

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.