Great Throughts Treasury

"Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth."

"People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television."

"Public and private polling indicates that Ohioans, by a substantial margin, want to overturn the new law. Which means, if this is true, that people in Ohio want to rape themselves"

"Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together."

"Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity."

"Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country."

"Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate."

"Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that."

"Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century."

"Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama."

"So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is ? we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."

"So you say, "Okay, why would he want to go over the cliff?" Well, what happens when we go over the cliff? A Democrat orgasm happens. Taxes go up for everybody. That's nirvana to these people. Taxes go up on everybody on January 1st, in all kinds of ways: income, payroll, ObamaCare, taxes up for everybody. The second most orgasmic thing that could happen for Democrats is the defense budget gets cut. So you've got uncontrolled joy. You've got tax increases for everybody, and then you've got massive defense cuts."

"So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that."

"Saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in an entire year."

"Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism."

"Some of these babes, I'm telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd, they're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes."

"Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?"

"Some people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them."

"Some say we try diplomacy. Yeah, well tell me, how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death? Ask them to wait for 10 years, before they kill us? When Good negotiates with Evil, Evil will always win. And peace follows victory, not words issued by diplomats."

"Somebody spoke up day in and day out and said, 'This is a hoax,' That somebody was me. [on global warming]"

"Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking."

"Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama."

"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back"

"States that have concealed carry laws have lower murder rates, crime rates, rape rates, you name it. States with the most stringent gun control laws have the highest crime rate."

"Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fractured her ankle in an airport on the way to Senate meetings. Given Sotomayor's preference for Latinas in every walk of life, I hope she can find 'a wise Latina' doctor to set that ankle as opposed to an average white doctor."

"That's what everybody is hoping. The question is, why do we need to wait 10 years? There are people that he could have nominated that we would know that about now... This one has people scratching their heads, because we've seemed to pick a nominee here that is oriented in some way to placating the Democrats."

"That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective."

"That story is nothing more than forged documents."

"That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against."

"The administrative cost of many welfare programs in this country is 72 cents per case. For every dollar in taxes set aside for welfare recipients, only 28 cents winds up in their pockets. Yet, the Utopians still believe we have to create more government entitlements."

"The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations."

"The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated."

"The American dream has an entirely different definition to Democrats and liberals than it does to you and me. Their American dream is the United States becoming a full-fledged socialist country."

"The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House."

"The bank scandal highlights the arrogance and condescension of members of Congress. It?s an outrage when members of Congress set up a system whereby they can spend money they don?t have. There are lots of people serving time in jails for what some members of Congress did with their House checking accounts."

"The Bible teaches that God created man in His own image and that He gave him dominion over animals and nature. God did not create animals in His own image. Even if you reject the Bible as the Word of God-even if you believe in evolution and disbelieve in creation-you must still admit that man is the only earthly creature capable of rational thought."

"The assault on America's religious underpinnings is based on a distorted interpretation of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment. Those causes are Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Only a lawyer could claim not to understand the plain meaning of those words. The government is prohibited from setting up a state religion, such as Britain has, but no barriers will be erected against the practice of any religion."

"The Clintons stirred up passions and fear by citing the misleading statistic that 37 million Americans are without health-insurance coverage. A CBO study, however, shows that 51% of those were uninsured for less than four months. Many others choose not to be covered."

"The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening."

"The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either."

"The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant."

"The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community."

"The biggest scandal on Capitol Hill is the list of laws that Congress routinely exempts itself from. Every other American has to obey them, but not Congress. They include: The Social Security Act of 1935, The National Labor Relations Act of 193, The Equal Pay Act of 1963, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Freedom of Information Act of 1966, The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, The Privacy Act of 1974, The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (no surprise there). And the list goes on and on. If any person running a business were to run afoul of any of the above laws you can bet he would be hauled into court pronto. But the authors of those laws have nothing to worry about. There is nothing anyone can do about a congressional violation of those laws, save for taking it to the lapdog Ethics Committee. This only breeds contempt for Congress among the public. It says to the average person that Congress considers itself above the law."

"The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it."

"The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them."

"The Democrats are gonna be offering a bill in the Senate on Monday that would require the names of nonunion donors to be published, under the Citizens United -- certain kinds of donors giving to Super PACs, the names would have to be published, and the reason for that is so the Democrats can sic their attack dogs on 'em and harass 'em. And the Republicans are hoping, that every Republican senator holds firm and votes "no" on this thing"

"The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it."

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit."

"The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder."

"The dirty little secret is that the vast majority of the people in this country live their lives as conservatives, and given conservative leadership, they'll respond to it in landslide droves."