Emenentoes

"I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from here."
        --Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State

"So I think we need to be very suspicious of any kind of partnerships between the Jews at that kind of level because we know that their interest primarily has to do with money and these kind of things."
        --Lee Alcorn, President of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP, on Al Gore's choice of Lieberman for Vice President

"I'm probably the most normal, down-to-earth human being you've ever seen."
        --Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600´s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
        --Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash. D.C.

"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."
        --Paul Begala, Clinton presidential aide, July 1998

"The president's attackers are a motley band consisting primarily of perjuring partisan politicians; strumpets, Nixon appologists, hired guns for cigarette companies, felons, judges who trade favors for jobs; bitter defeated pathetic former rivals of the president; Hillary-hating misogynists; trollops and hate radio hucksters, feeding on an endless line of lies and half-truths to jealous journalists and envious editorialists more concerned with their own self-importance and trashing the good reputation of a great state than of truth."
        --Paul Begala

"Miss Reno's only visible qualifications for the post of attorney general were two: she is a woman and she had been a prosecutor."
        --Robert Bork, National Review, 09/01/98

"As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being."
        --James Bovard

"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them."
        --Donna Brazile, manager of Al Gore's campaign 2000

"I'm a woman, 40 years old, whose birth certificate says 'Negro.' With all that laying on top of me, nothing scares me. My whole life's been a victory. This will be the first campaign an African-American woman ran to victory. And I've done it all with a combination of guts, brains and sheer willpower. In my situation you can't be as good as the boys. You have to be one more than the boys. I'm like the eighth wonder of the world."
        --Donna Brazile, Gore Campaign manager, 08/20/2000

"When you talk to the average person, they are not all victims of homicide."
        --San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown

"I´d be happy to give him a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. ... I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs."
        --Nina Burleigh

"Last night I rented the movie 'Love Story.' I still cry at that scene where Al Gore invents the Internet."
        --George H. W. Bush, former President of the United States

"P.S. This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention."
        --George W. Bush, e-mail to Vice President Al Gore

"I know West Virginia, and what is one man's pork is another man's job."
        --Sen. Robert C. Byrd, (Democrat, WV)

"...[T]he will of the people is null and void."
        --Antonio Villaraigosa. Los Angeles mayoral candidate

"Corporal Cue Ball Carville will be rolling into battle against Newt Gingrich. ... [Newt Gingrich is a] sanctioned, certified, adjudicated and confessed liar [and] tax cheat."
        --James Carville, 09/27/98

"Patriotism may be the last resort of a scoundrel, but yelling about leaks is a close second."
        --Richard Choen

"[T]alk about people who've lied to us about policy matters, you know, trading arms for hostages, or 'I won't raise your taxes' -- and those lies affect my life. Clinton's lie doesn't affect my life."
        --Eleanor Clift, 09/19/98

"I'm trying to be honest with you and it hurts me."
        --Bill Clinton, (video testimony before grand jury, 08/17/98)

"You vote for me and I´ll give you family values. ... I promise you the most ethical administration in the history of our country."
        --Bill Clinton

"Look at these wildfires...down in Florida has been suffering. ... June was the hottest month they had ever had -- hotter than any July or August they had ever had."
        --Bill Clinton

"I do believe that even though Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity ..."
        --Bill Clinton, 02/04/99

"I don't mind telling you I made the list.... Number 53. Fifty-three? I mean, what does a guy have to do to make the top 50 around here?"
        --Bill Clinton, at the White House correspondents' dinner, on a recently published list of the century's top 100 stories.

"After all, we could not have won the Cold War without you.''
        --Bill Clinton, to Sean Connery on his portrayal of James Bond. I think I have given evidence that I need to be in church."
        --Bill Clinton

"I would have much preferred being president during World War II. I´m a person out of my time."
        --Bill Clinton, as quoted in Bob Woodward´s The Choice

"I did not inhale. [referring to marijuana use while in college]"
        --Bill Clinton, on the campaign trail, 10/29/92

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
        --Hillary Clinton

"I think a lot of this is prejudice against our state. They wouldn't do this if we were from some other state."
        --Hillary Clinton

"[Christmas celebrates] the birth of a homeless child."
        --Hillary Clinton

"He's [Rudy Giuliani] done a lot of stuff as mayor but I think being senator is a different kind of job. A senator can't go arrest a homeless person."
        --Hillary Clinton, Letterman's "Late Show"

"God bless the America we are trying to create."
        --Hillary Clinton

"You know, pushing that cart through the supermarket and standing and talking to -- I had a long conversation about clementines with the produce manager because it's been a long time since I bought a crate of clementines. You know, standing over there in the dairy department trying to decide what Skim Plus meant. Because, you know, I'd never seen Skim Plus. And having a man come up to me and kind of do a double-take and kind of say, 'Is that you?' and I said, 'I guess so, it is me.' It made me feel like I was re-entering the real world."
        --Hillary Clinton

"How could this have happened?"
        --Hillary Clinton, on those missing FBI files in the McVeigh case

"It's just plain idiotic for a man in his position to have an extramarital sexual relationship, especially with a White House Mouseketeer."
        --Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 07/21/98

"Some suggested over the weekend that it's wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami."
        --Katie Couric, NBC

"I´d rather be barefoot at home than on my knees in the office."
        --Danielle Crittenden, Women´s Quarterly

"I liked President Reagan. I certainly wouldn't have trusted him if he said to me 'I never had an extramarital affair.'"
        --Mario Cuomo, Larry King Live

"He [Bill Clinton] has mastered the art of equivocation. There is something almost inhuman in his smoother responses that sends a shiver up the spine. It is not the compromises he has made that trouble so much as the unavoidable suspicion that he has no principles to compromise."
        --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 10/28/98

"But the truth is that Hillary Clinton owes her charisma not to her accomplishments but to her role as the diva in one of the most bizarre political soap operas ever."
        --Maureen Dowd, 07/19/98

"Once 'our people' get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being 'our people'."
        --M. Stanton Evans

"He's [Pres. Clinton] elevated dishonesty to a virtue."
        --Rowland Evans

"You couldn't develop a virus that kills as many people as we [all humanity] do and destroys as many things as we do. We're just a pestilence with appendages."
        --Geoffrey Fieger, Democratic candidate for Governor in Michigan

"Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? ... In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God."
        --Geoffrey Fieger, Democratic candidate for Governor in Michigan

"Unless they [Mich. Gov. Engler's triplet daughters] have corkscrew tails, those are not his kids."
        --Geoffrey Fieger, Democratic candidate for Governor in Michigan

"I am perfectly sane."
        --Ezola Foster, Pat Buchanan's Reform Party running mate, on news that she accepted workers' compensation payments for an undisclosed mental disorder

"To tell the truth, we all lie. Some small fibs, some tall tales and some, like the President, get caught."
        --Fred Francis, NBC

"Even if he did what he's alleged to have done, what's the big deal? To have our will overthrown by a bunch of dirty old white men trying to use sexual issues wrongly ... to impeach a president, this is really a disgrace to Washington, to the Congress, to the United States."
        --Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminist Mystique", 12/14/98

"Mr. Clinton, having read the Bible and ‘thought about it a lot’ has decided to give himself a line item veto over the ten commandments."
        --Rich Galen, GOPAC

"[T]he most diverse administration in history is also one of the most successful in history."
        --Al Gore, speech to NAACP, 07/16/98

"The Republicans know theirs is the wrong agenda for African Americans. They don't even want to count you in the census."
        --Al Gore, speech to NAACP, 07/16/98

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full...."
        --Al Gore, Vice President of the U.S.

"The theories - the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative bodies and with - by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where the circumstances make that a feasible idea... "
        --Al Gore, Vice President of the United States (believe it or not)

"Only one person is going to be picked [for Vice President] and the others are not going to be."
        --Al Gore, Vice President

"I would have kissed Tipper much longer at the convention. But she was struggling."
        --Al Gore

"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn't true. Somewhere along the line -- at about a billion years ago, maybe half that -- we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the earth.
    Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."
        --David M. Graber, National Park Service.

"You [Bill Clinton] have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership than I value in public service and public policy than any person that I have ever met."
        --Steve Grossman, DNC Committee Chairman 09/15/98

"As the former head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely hailed as the man who brought an end to the Cold War."
        --Bryant Gumball

"Listening week after week to the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer is likely to be more damaging to women and girls than a sexy come-on by a sleazy priest."
        --Carter Heyward

"We have heard from so many college professors that I think I'm going to ask if we can get college credit for attending seminars."
        --Rep. Henry Hyde, (Republican, Illinois)

"Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives -- either denying or exaggerating!"
        --Patricia Ireland, president of NOW, 08/17/98

"Well, now we know exactly what it takes to get our president to approach the act of telling the truth: a federal prosecutor and a posse of deputy prosecutors, a grand jury, the Supreme Court, the confession of his chief co-conspirator, the testimony of a couple of dozen other witnesses, the urging of his lawyers and his advisers, the ministering of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and, one assumes, the possession by the FBI of conclusive physical evidence."
        --Michael Kelly, 08/19/98

"I myself have educated myself."
        --Rep. Patrick Kennedy, 10/01/98

"I wish reporters would ask me more about what's in my head and less about what's between my legs."
        --Karen Kerin, the first openly transgender candidate for Congress, Vermont

"I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me."
        --Monica Lewinsky, discussing her Jenny Craig weight-loss program

"It was announced Gloria Steinem was recently married at the home of a lady friend named Wilma Mankiller, presumably in a bid by Ms. Steinem to see if she could get The Guinness Book of Irony to implode."
        --Norman Liebmann

"Liberals are the itch, and you are the scratch."
        --Rush Limbaugh

"Any kindergarten librarian or Blockbuster checkout clerk would have run [security at Los Alamos] more responsibly than [Dept. of Energy] Secretary Bill Richardson."
        --Thomas H. Lipscomb, Jewish World Review 0-6/20/2000

"Somewhere in Australia, a million kangaroos are embarrassed by the name that this is giving their court system."
        --Joe Lockhart, White House press secretary, 12/09/98

"Congress could do whatever it wished to do. We pass resolutions condemning things every day."
        --Mike McCurry, Clinton spokesman

"No one in their right mind besides a few hawk press people on the right believes that Starr is right anymore; Clinton is clearly in the right."
        --Susan McDougal

"I think because he couldn't say `nigger,' he said `corrupt,' George Will can take his hood and go back wherever he came from. ... You know I use language very carefully, but I mean this from the bottom of my heart, [Will] can take his hood and put it off and put it back on again as far as I'm concerned."
        --Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, (Democrat, Ill.) 09/07/98

"Young people who see Randle as a role model may learn to associate the terror of defenseless chickens as a form of amusement."
        --Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA 09/29/98

"The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being."
        --Ingrid Newkirk, director of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses."
        --Ingrid Newkirk, director of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."
        --Ingrid Newkirk, PETA cofounder

"They [Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro] are both humanists. They should get together. And it would be great for Clinton's legacy."
        --Congressman Major Owens, (Democrat, New York)

"Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of aging feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms."
        --Camille Paglia

"I’m honored he thinks I’m less oily than he and the president of the United States."
        --H. Ross Perot, responding to James Carville’s suggestion that Perot is a quart low

"Several moral philosophers have concluded that neonates [newborn children] are not persons, and thus, neonaticide should not be classified as murder. Michael Tooley has gone so far as to say that neonaticide ought to be permitted during an interval after birth."
        --Steven Pinker, PhD, New York Timesmagazine

"He's [Fidel Catro] done some good things for his people."
        --Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." --Cicero, 63 BC

"You´ve got to pity the poor Democrats in Congress. Most of them are on record against capital punishment, since they naturally don´t want to diminish their constituent base."
        --Wes Pruden

"For those concerned about what the Secret Service may observe or hear in the course of their duties, there is a fairly simple answer, one found in the Constitution: the president should 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'"
        --Dan Quayle, 1998

"[T]he political lobbying group that calls itself quote, 'the Christian Coalition,' laced into President Clinton."
        --Dan Rather, of quote 'CBS.'

"While Fidel Castro...is widely criticized for a lot of things, there is no question that Castro feels a very deep and abiding connection to those Cubans who are still in Cuba. ...there's little doubt in my mind that Fidel Castro was sincere when he said, 'listen, we really want this child back here'."
        --Dan Rather, (self-described) CBS

"I figured it was going to be a white guy between 25 and 55 because they're the root of most evil."
        --Ann Rhodes, University of Iowa Vice President

"I think it´s all about sex. WhiteWater: they tried it, came up with nothing. Travelgate: nothing. Filegate: nothing. All they have is this purported semi, neo, almost, quasi sex with a 24-year-old and then the lie about it. What married man is not going to lie about it? It is Hillary´s business..."
        --Geraldo Rivera

"When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed."
        --Peter Singer, bio-ethics professor at Princeton University

"Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations."
        --Thomas Sowell, 07/23/98

"[Clinton's trip to China] included six members of Congress, five Cabinet officials who each brought almost 40 staff members, a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, a national security adviser, a deputy national security adviser, a press secretary, a deputy press secretary, five stenographers, two White House television crews, a valet for the president and a hairdresser for Mrs. Clinton, the president's private secretary and the White House staff secretary, speechwriters and re-writers, doctors and lawyers, snipers, commandoes, bomb-sniffing dogs, and, of course, 375 reporters and photographers. Vice President Gore must have felt like the kid in 'Home Alone.' They spent more in 10 days than Judge Starr spent in three years."
        --Rep. Cliff Stearns, (R-Florida)

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
        --George Stephanopolous, Clinton aide

"Kids are not nice, innocent, flower-loving little rainbow children. Kids are all little bastards; they don't have any kind of social tact or etiquette."
        --Matt Stone,

"Like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush doesn´t appear to need the presidency to complete his personality."
        --Cal Thomas

"If I was doing it over again I wouldn´t have done it, but I can´t shoot them now that they´re here."
        --Ted Turner, speaking of his children

"We were so close to the edge, and as long as those vast arsenals of nuclear weapons remain, there's always a possibility that another Adolf Hitler could arise in one of these countries. A madman can get control of a country. We have a sex maniac in control of our country."
        --Ted Turner

"Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous."
        --Ted Turner,speech given to International Women's Media Foundation

"[My] Christian sect was very intolerant...Christians thought they were the only ones going to heaven...and I said heaven is going to be a mighty empty place with nobody else there."
        --Ted Turner

"While what constitutes an animal's consent [to sexual relations] is difficult to define, people are well aware when an animal is non-consenting. Implicit in [the proposed legislation] is that sex with an animal in itself constitutes abuse. We believe that this merely reflects a negative attitude toward such a nontraditional form of sexuality."
        --Two Indiana University professors, questioning the Missouri Legislature's proposed anti-bestiality law.

"It's [the Lewinsky scandal] a right-wing conspiracy to hold on to the Congress in 1998 and win the presidency in the year 2000."
        --Jarvis Tyner, vice-chairman Communist Party, USA

"The first known victim of child abuse. Clinton seemed female from the start -- over-eating, over-compensating, over-accommodating and more vulnerable than the emotionally inscrutable Hillary."
        --Virginia Vitzthum, Salon magazine

"Men rule everywhere and in everything, so why should we care that boys do worse in high school?"
        --Amy Wax, University of Virginia law professor

"Children are at a disproportionate risk from environmental health threats because -- pound for pound -- they breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food than adults. Children's behavior, such as playing close to the ground, leads to greater exposures to these threats."
        --White House Press Release, 08/10/98

"My concern with this guy, Weston, is he's a guy talking up this business about the evils of big government and he's a nut case but this is his rant and I wonder if, you know, in some way the Republicans in this town haven't gone too far with this kind of logic."
        --Juan Williams, FOX News Sunday, 07/26/98