The Clinton Sex Scandals
"Hey, I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen
to me; I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with
that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time,
never. These allegations are false! And I need to go back to work for the
American people."
~Bill Clinton
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he
should resign."
~Bill Clinton running for US Representative in 1974
"I misled people"
~Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky address (Translation: I lied to the
American people)
"I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them"
~Bill Clinton, Grand Jury Testimony (Translation: I wanted to cover it up
so I lied to you- even under oath)
"I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now..."
~Bill Clinton's Grand Jury Testimony
"Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law
are always subordinated to the will of the American people."
~William Ginsburg
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"
Bill Clinton
"Clinton's an unusually good liar.
Unusually good. Do you realize that?"
~Sen. Bob Kerry, Democrat- Nebraska
Al Gore
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in
creating the internet."
~Al Gore
"I tell you, that Michael Jackson is
unbelievable! Isn't he? He's just unbelievable. Three plays in
twenty seconds."
~Al Gore commenting on Michael Jordan
Quotes from Castro
regarding Clinton
One of the best
presidents the United States has ever had.
~Fidel Castro (Referring to Clinton after the Elian Gonzales affair)
Clinton likes cigars.
~Fidel Castro, 1996
Clinton on Taxes
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The Brilliant Tom Daschle. |
"I will tell you this: I will not
raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs."
~Bill Clinton
"It might surprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too"
~Bill Clinton
A short time later: "I take full responsibility...for what we did. It was
the right thing to do."
~Bill Clinton
"I have no intention of raising taxes"
~Bill Clinton
"It's your money, says President Bush when he
promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin."
Bill Clinton - Out of Control (June 28, 2003) (But it IS my money! Damn
Clinton!)
PETA Online
"Feeding kids meat is child abuse."
"Jesus was a vegetarian because he opposed animal sacrifice in the
temple."
"McDonald's tells kids that hamburgers grow in hamburger patches. It's a
lie."
Miscellaneous: The Clintons
"I experimented with marijuana at a time it
suited and I did not like it, and didn't inhale."
~Bill Clinton
(How did he not like it if he didn't inhale?)
"We must stop thinking of the individual
and start thinking about what is best for society."
~Hillary Clinton,
1993 (Wow! Hillary thinks just like Lenin! see Lenin
quote below)
"We can't be so fixated on our
desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."
~Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A
Miscellaneous: General
"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."
~John Davis, Editor of The Earth First! Journal
"We don’t know
whether in the long run the Iraqi people are better off, and the most
important thing is we don’t know whether we’re better off." - On the
question of whether qetting rid of Saddam Hussein was a good thing.
Howard Dean - Former Democratic Govenor of Vermont and
Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"I
would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you
would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists."
~Jane Fonda
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state
fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical
revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown."
Marcy Kaptur- Democratic Representative Ohio
"He's (Osama bin Laden) been
out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads,
building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care
facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
Patty Murray- Democratic Senator Washington (speech to a high school honors
class)
"If men like [Ken] Starr and his
allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and
malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country."
~Hillary Clinton (Ironic, isn't it?)
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected— selected by five judges up in
Washington who voted along party lines."
~Alec Baldwin (Supreme Court... Party lines?)
"I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if
we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn’t have to kill them for their oil.”
Bill Mahr - Larry King Live (November 1, 2002)
"We all need to take a deep breath and think
about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and
have a couple of drinks too,"
~Julia Roberts
"If you asked would I
live in London the rest of my life, yeah, I'd be very happy to stay here.
There's nothing in America that I would miss at all."
~Robert Altman - The Times (London) January 21, 2002
I know on
September 11, we were all evacuated from the building, and we found
ourselves standing outside—most of us. I was whisked away with no place to
go. We ended up on the top floor of the police headquarters. We pulled the
shades down, thinking that might make us more secure.
~Tom Daschle - Democratic Senator South Dakota
"Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood
knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and
educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to
know that this [Iraq War] will be a disaster."
~Janeane Garofalo (Ok, now I'm really scared)
"There is ample evidence that the horrific
events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus
from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks,
to Saddam Hussein, who did not,"
~Robert Byrd - Democratic Senator West Virginia (USA Today- 5/21/03)
"Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat
is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this
president just weeks before an election."
~Robert Byrd - Democratic Senator West Virginia (New York Times op-ed,
10/10/02)
"While endangering one of the most pristine
areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do
nothing to make our country more energy independent,"
~Tom Daschle - Democratic Senator South Dakota (March 19, 2003)
"by just getting the SUVs to have the same
fuel economy as autos."
~Barbara Boxer Democratic Rep. CA. (On how the U.S. could save more oil than
the Anwar would produce)
"Well, there's no credible link between Iraq
and al Qaeda. There's no credible link between Iraq and 9/11."
~Janeane Garofalo
"death warrant for social programs for
decades and decades to come."
~Julian Bond - NAACP Chairman (on President Bush's tax cuts)
"In two short years, George W. Bush has
taught us what the 'W' stands for -- wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong
for our parents, wrong for our values. Wrong, wrong, wrong for America."
~John Edwards - Democratic Senator North Carolina (February 23, 2003 )
"Their idea of equal rights is the American
flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side."
~Julian Bond - NAACP Chairman (On the Republican Party)
"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt,
Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President
and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the
Wall Street trading block."
~John Kerry- Democratic Senator Massachusetts (Speech To Massachusetts
Democrat State Convention," May 31, 2002)
"Unfortunately, last spring, Republicans
chose exactly the wrong solution. They made a huge tax cut their No. 1
priority -- ahead of everything else -- and discarded the framework of
fiscal responsibility,"
~Tom Daschle - Democratic Senator South Dakota (January 4, 2002)
"We give an infinitesimal amount of our
money to people around the world. I think what people around the world would
say is it would take so little for this rich country to help and alleviate
so much misery and even that is too much for them. We’re oblivious to
suffering.”
~Bill Mahr - Larry King Live (November 1, 2002)
“Bush says
you’re either with us or against us. I don’t know who ‘us’ is. I say to Mr.
Bush—this is what democracy looks like. We will not give our daughters and
sons for a war for oil.”
~Susan Sarandon
"This is a
racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have
hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any
non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
~Woody Harrelson
"If we continue following George Bush’s
military policy and defense policy, will become a secondary military power."
~Howard Dean - Former Democratic Govenor of Vermont
and Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"I can’t tell you the answer to that
either." (On the question of how many troops do we have on active duty.)
~Howard Dean - Former Democratic Govenor of Vermont
and Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"The greatest crime since World War II has
been U.S. foreign policy."
~Ramsey Clark- former Democratic Attorney General
"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy
that we're now forced to war, saddened that we have to give up one life
because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that
was so critical for our country."
~Tom Daschle - Democratic Senator South Dakota (How was it critical?)
"Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I.
He won't tell you. I just did."
~Walter Mondale - July 19, 1988
"But the problem for Social Security is that
it is actually in fine shape until, I don’t know, 2040 or something like
that."
~Howard Dean - Former Democratic Govenor of Vermont
and Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"We need to
change our ethic and aspire to be more Canadian-like,"
~Michael Moore
"They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I
mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two."
~Ramsey Clark - former Democratic Attorney General (during a media event for
an anti-war group)
"I think we are isolating
ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing
ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a
few years ago."
~Tom Daschle - Democratic Senator South Dakota (July 19, 2001)
(Right........ Kosovo comes to mind)
"I'm the number 1 target of the White House.
They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me."
~Jean Carnahan - Democratic Senator Colorado (CNN's Crossfire, 10/15/02)
"The difference between Martin Sheen and
George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's
president."
~Paul Begala- Democratic strategist (CNN's "Crossfire," June 4, 2002)
"Any child
born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial
world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive
than that of a child born in the developing world."
~Al Gore
"Here’s what I say to people. You have a
choice. Do you want to have the president’s tax cut or would you like a
health-care program that nobody can ever take away?"
~Howard Dean - Former Democratic Govenor of Vermont
and Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2004 (Meet The Press 6/22/03).
"This country of ours has committed the most
serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression
without a declaration of war by Congress,"
~Ramsey Clark - Former Democratic Attorney General
"I do not begrudge his salute to America's
warriors aboard the carrier Lincoln, for they have performed bravely ... but
I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of
a warrior for the purposes of a speech,''
~Robert Byrd - Democratic Senator
"I think the president would mislead the American people."
~Jim McDermott- Democratic Congressman Washington (statement to the press
while in Iraq)
"National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation
of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction
of proliferation is a bad direction."
~Jacques Chirac
“He [Treasury Secretary-designate John Snow] is said to be in favor of
further tax cuts but against deficits. Doesn’t one lead to the other?”
~Peter Jennings - World News Tonight - December 9, 2002
"The president succeeded during the election
campaign in convincing a majority that Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida are
practically the same thing ... but he convinced the majority of something
that is not true and is not backed up by any evidence that I am aware of."
~Al Gore
"Drag a hundred-dollar
bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."
~James Carville (on Paula Jones sexual harassment allegation against Bill
Clinton)
"A nation that continues,
year after year, to spend more money on defense than social programs is
nearing spiritual death,"
~Danny Glover
"I did not support Operation Desert Fox."
~Janeane Garofalo
"Bin Laden
didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where
... you'll see America's hand of villainy."
~Harry Belafonte
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the
elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with
the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of
one personality. This is not good at all."
~Vladimir Lenin, as quoted in Not by Politics Alone.
