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Liberal Quotes
"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
"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
"We live in fictitious times. We live in
a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious
presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to
war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr. Bush.
Shame on you. Shame on you."
Michael Moore
"Clinton's pardons have no impact on the
health and welfare of the American people."
Barbara Streisand
"Bush stole the elections and since then
we have all been suffering the consequences,"
Jessica Lange
"He
betrayed this country! He played on our fears! He took America
on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops,
an adventure pre-ordained and planned before 9/11 ever took
place!"
Al Gore
"Just so you know, we're ashamed the
president of the United States is from Texas,"
Natalie Maines- The Dixie Chicks
"The man's father is a wonderful human
being," "I think this guy is a loser."
Harry Reid
"George Bush is responsible for killing
tens of thousands of innocent people."
Cindy Sheehan
"I would like to apologize for referring
to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say
is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk
driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate."
Michael Moore
"Regime change! George Bush has to go and
we have the power to do it. The officials of the government
shall be removed from office for crimes and misdemeanor; their
crime against peace, and for use of torture in Iraq."
Ramsey Clark- former Democratic Attorney General
(March 31, 2003)
"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)
"The American people may have been lured
into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, in
violation of long-standing international law, under false
premises,"
Robert Byrd- Democratic Senator West Virginia
(USA Today- 5/21/03)
"Our paradigm now seems to be: something
terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the
right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else
in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go
straight to hell."
Bill Clinton
"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
"Not only did the tax cut fail to prevent
a recession, as its supporters said it would, it probably made
the recession worse,"
Tom Daschle- Democratic Senator South Dakota
(January 4, 2002)
"Republicans are men of narrow vision,
who are afraid of the future."
Jimmy Carter
"Did I expect George Bush to f--- it up
as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."
John Kerry- Democratic Senator Massachusetts
"Being a liberal is one of the best
things you can be."
Janeane Garofalo
"The problem is we elected a manager, and
we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim."
George Clooney
"George W Bush is like a bad comic
working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the
expression."
Martin Sheen
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected—
selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party
lines."
Alec Baldwin
"President Bush is a liar,"
Harry Reid
"Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot."
Al Franken- (The title from his book)
"It depends on what the meaning of the
word 'is' is"
Bill Clinton
"This vast right-wing conspiracy that has
been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced
for President"
Hillary Clinton
"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 despise
him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and
everything they stand for."
Jessica Lange - at a film festival in Spain
(September 25, 2002)
"Bush is an incompetent
leader. In fact, he's not a leader,''
Nancy Pelosi
"It is
preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in
Iraq has made America safer"
Edward Kennedy
"I will guarantee you
that John Kerry will be president of the United States."
Nancy Pelosi
"It is
an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s
humiliating.”
Jessica Lange - at a film festival in Spain
(September 25, 2002)
"Globalization, as
defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are
talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones,
you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds
of the people of the world."
Jimmy Carter
"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
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 will be a
disaster."
Janeane Garofalo
"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
"Impeachment is a nonissue; it’s not
going to happen with Republicans in control of the House and
Senate."
Eleanor Clift
"death warrant for social programs for
decades and decades to come."
Julian Bond - NAACP Chairman (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 )
"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)
"There was no imminent threat. This was
made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican
leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be
good politically. This whole thing was a fraud,"
Edward Kennedy
"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
"The ACLU is determined to hold the Bush
administration responsible not just for torture and abuse of
detainees, but for the many other abuses of power that are
taking place in the name of fighting terrorism."
Anthony Romero- Executive Director of the ACLU
"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
"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)
"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 Missouri (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)
"By ordering kidnapping
and by "rendering" individuals to be tortured abroad,
by conducting warrantless eavesdropping on Americans here at
home and by issuing secret demands for our library records and
other personal information, President Bush is violating
America’s values of freedom and fairness."
Anthony Romero- Executive Director of the ACLU
"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
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