Great Throughts Treasury

"Charlie's losing it, I guess."

"Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett."

"Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way."

"Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves."

"Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats."

"Compassion is defined not by how many people are on the government dole but by how many people no longer need government assistance."

"Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'"

"Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is."

"Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line."

"Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore."

"Conservatism solves problems liberalism blows ?em up."

"Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody."

"Devicive attacks on liberal means the truth."

"Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?"

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."

"Even when I think I'm wrong I'm right. I am all-knowing."

"End results that work that don't involve government threatens liberals."

"Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing."

"Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak."

"Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not."

"Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country."

"Every time the Democrats lose either elections or a major issue, they blame me, they blame talk radio, and they blame you."

"Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington."

"Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about."

"Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person."

"Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth."

"Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception."

"Exercise freaks ? are the ones putting stress on the health care system. ~Rush Limbaugh, accusing people who exercise of being the reason why health care costs are so high, June 12, 2009"

"Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this."

"Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment."

"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society."

"First of all, the Obama plan maintains the private health insurance system and private health care providers. Second, even if the private health care sector magically ceased to exist, it would not reduce the amount of capital available in the rest of the economy for investment and opportunity."

"Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life."

"For years I?ve pointed out that global warming is bogus. It?s contradicted by the most technologically advanced data [showing] no warming trend over the last 60 years. But listen to the reasons why the UN scientists have raised their global warming predictions so dramatically. The chairman of the panel says the main reason for expectations of faster global warming is an anticipated fall in cooling agents such as sulfur dioxide, a bi-product of coal. Now, why pray have sulfur dioxide levels been falling? Because the Clean Air Act was enacted. Yes, regulations have reduced sulfur dioxide in order to supposedly fight the dreaded acid rain. But now the UN report says that less sulfur dioxide has had the unintended effect of actually reducing particles in the air which help deflect the sun?s rays. So, in other words, we?ve got more global warming because we?re burning less coal. So, the environmental wacko UN is actually blaming global warming on environmental wacko?s."

"For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best."

"Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society."

"Gee. 'Til they got to there they were talking about me. I always worry if people are going to think I'm gay. Well, no, look. Fine wine, good cigars? That's me. Understanding the finer things, confident, rather go out with the guys for dinner, doesn't care what people think? Man, that's me."

"Frankly, I'm fed up... no, I'm weary of even having to express sympathy for Cindy Sheehan. Oh, she lost her son. Yes, yes, yes. But we all lose things."

"Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims."

"Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is."

"George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant."

"Given the National Organization for Women?s membership and proclivities, it?s no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed with only two issues: abortion rights and lesbian rights."

"Global warming relies on the theory that we are destroying ecosystems. There is no evidence that we could destroy ecosystems."

"From my point of view, the end result will be as if I had gone to court and won, but the matter is concluded much sooner. I have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars with lawyers over the past 27 months fighting this at every stage."

"Gore is a liar. There's no question about it. Gore knows it's a hoax. They all have to know it's a hoax."

"Government intervention-specifically the Medicaid and Medicare programs-is the biggest reason costs are escalating in health care today. When Medicare began in 1965, it cost taxpayers about $3 billion per year. It was projected back them that by 1990 the price would rise to $9 billion per year. The 1990 bill was actually $67 billion per year. The pointy-headed theoreticians who devised this program made the mistake of assuming they were operating in a zero-sum game. They never imagined that the very creation of their program would increase demand for medical services."

"Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things."

"Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it."

"Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them."

"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"