Great Throughts Treasury

"Is this what feminism has become? ... None of that was supposed to matter. That was supposed to turn off... All of it, especially the money, because you were to provide for yourself and you weren't supposed to be dependent."

"It doesn?t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she?s out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ? No, I?m trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you."

"It is now officially at an end."

"It isn't racist. It's hardly even worth the tempest that has been made of it,"

"It doesn't help (that) this idiot Jimmy Carter has just come out for this port deal. I mean . . . Jimmy Carter's just blown this deal sky-high by coming out and endorsing it."

"It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy."

"It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different."

"It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year politics."

"It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could."

"It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies."

"It's a dirty job [but] somebody's gotta do it. Can you imagine the waiting list?"

"It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned."

"It's never too late for victory!"

"It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up."

"I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it."

"It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people."

"I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out."

"I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options."

"I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media."

"Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters."

"Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out."

"I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots."

"Just the idea ? that this disaster is looked upon as an opportunity for political gain by the left, and that particular political gain actually results in a decline of Western lifestyles, that's something that ought to sober everybody. I wouldn't be talking about this, I assure you, were it not for the fact that others on the left are out there making these asinine, ridiculous statements, and they have to be responded to and reacted to."

"Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal."

"Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support."

"Let me tell you something. They say he lied to Congress. I can think of no better bunch of people to lie to than Congress."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails."

"Let me leave you with a thought that most honestly summarizes my sentiments: I love the women's movement... especially when I am walking behind it. ---"

"Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers."

"Let?s say we discover the gene that says the kid?s gonna be gay. How many parents, if they knew before the kid was gonna be born, [that he] was gonna be gay, they would take the pregnancy to term? Well, you don?t know but let?s say half of them said, Oh, no, I don?t wanna do that to a kid. [Then the] gay community finds out about this. The gay community would do the fastest 180 and become pro-life faster than anybody you?ve ever seen. ? They?d be so against abortion if it was discovered that you could abort what you knew were gonna be gay babies."

"Let's make no mistake. The people pushing intelligent design believe in the biblical version of creation. Intelligent design is a way, I think, to sneak it into the curriculum and make it less offensive to the liberals."

"Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do ? let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."

"Liberalism does not work."

"Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise."

"Liberalism has to lie!"

"Liberalism is an ideology built on lies."

"Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed."

"Liberalism is a lie!"

"Liberalism lies about what it is going to accomplish."

"Liberalism is born on pure emotion."

"Liberals are liberals first!"

"Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box."

"Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others."

"Liberalism seeks to deceive as many people as possible."

"Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails."

"Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country."

"Liberals do not use their minds!"

"Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have."

"Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it."

"Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about."