Quotable Quotes, Weird Wacky World of Politics Options

[Brainiac]

As listed in TIME magazine: April 24 2006:

"Our answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full nuclear cycle is one phrase - we say: Be angry and die of this anger." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, following the announcement that Iran had successfully enriched uranium.

"I think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning to operate and tell that country how to operate." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, reponding to criticism over Google's willingness to comply with China's censorship laws for the recent launch of its local-language search engine.

"Last time I read the Bible, there was no requirement to be checking passports." - Carol Vega, demonstrator from Puerto Rico, at a march in Washington protesting U.S. legislation on illegal immigration that would tighten U.S. borders and punish churches and other groups helping undocumented workers.

"This is a very difficult and sad day for all of us." - Yisrael Maimon, Israeli Cabinet Secretary, at a meeting to declare former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - in a coma following his Jan. 4 stroke - unfit for office, formally ending his five-year rule.

"Don't think of me as a 14-year old, since all these troubles have made me older; I won't regret my actions. I'll behave the way I think I should!" - Anne Frank, in a 1944 letter to her father that was released last week, protesting after she was forbidden to spend time alone with a young man hiding from the Nazis with the Franks in Amsterdam.

"Maybe beauty is the final step to end violence and preach world peace after all." - Tamar Goregian, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding.

"I'll take Marlon Brando in On The Waterfont." - John Prescott, British Deputy Prime Minister, when asked which actor he would want to play him in a film of his life. The former seaman's union activist ruled out British movie star Hugh Grant as being "new Labour, not old Labour".

[Tapati]

People are buzzing over the clever speech by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Here's a transcript:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

This took place at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

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"In a place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence - a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"

- Pope Benedict XVI, at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz during a visit to Poland, the birthplace of his predecesor John Paul II.

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"I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it."

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, when asked by a reporter for Germany's Der Spiegel magazine if he stood by the claim he made last year calling the Holocaust "a myth".

[Dhyana]

People sometimes mistake what I say for what I am thinking. (Idi Amin)

Reminds me of the distinction some ISKCONites would like the devotees to maintain when reading ACBS' words.

[Homer]

People sometimes mistake what I say for what I am thinking. (Idi Amin)

Reminds me of the distinction some ISKCONites would like the devotees to maintain when reading ACBS' words. 

[Brainiac]

"[The Polio vaccine is] a US tool to cut the population of the Muslims. It is against Islam that you take a medicine before the disease."

- Muslim Khan, Taliban spokesman, speaking by telephone.

[Brainiac]

"I wonder on what basis anyone can say condoms make Aids worse. The Pope is either stupid, ignorant or dim."

- Prof. Richard Dawkins, on the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks that condom usage may exacerbate the proliferation of Aids in Africa.

[Apres Laulyam]

"I wonder on what basis anyone can say condoms make Aids worse. The Pope is either stupid, ignorant or dim."

- Prof. Richard Dawkins, on the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks that condom usage may exacerbate the proliferation of Aids in Africa.

I guess sperm is sacred. You're not supposed to let it fall into some little latex bag, for heaven's sake. I mean don't you just wish you could sit down with the Pope and say 'what are you thinking here?'

'Is this true? Please let me talk to you...' J. Hendrix Up From The Skies

[Dhyana]

"I wonder on what basis anyone can say condoms make Aids worse. The Pope is either stupid, ignorant or dim."

- Prof. Richard Dawkins, on the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks that condom usage may exacerbate the proliferation of Aids in Africa.

He probably reasons that AIDS is God-sent as punishment for people's sins, and condoms take away a deterrent from sinning (having sex).

[Apres Laulyam]

Yeah well, the Pope never gets caught holding the bag. Take that any way you want to read it.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr. (I realize Dhyana, that you are telling me his line of reasoning, not advocating it. )

[Brainiac]

Yeah well, the Pope never gets caught holding the bag.

I wonder if he giggles as he grants permission for acolytes to kiss his ring....

[Brainiac]

"Kill, kill, kill… dead."

- James Fraser Brown, 5-year-old son of ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, when told by Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, that his Lego men looked like Afghans.

[Dhyana]

"It is not the scarcity of women on boards of directors that is the problem; it's rather the overabundance of incompetent men."

I have unfortunately not noted down the author of this quote. It was a Swedish lady, a business profile, commenting in the debate on imposing gender quotas as a way to get more women into boards of directors.

[Brainiac]

"The banning of nuclear weapons has made the world safe for war."

- Don DeLillo, source unknown

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"You pour diarrohea over me day and night."

- Vladimir Putin to Moscow radio station.