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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” President George W. Bush
“Reports that say something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
"It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” President Bill Clinton during his Grand Jury testimony
“Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” Former mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Barry
“You cannot be president of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can’t be. And we are blessed. So don’t feel sorry for — don’t cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care.” President George Bush, Sr., speaking to employees of an insurance company
“You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.” Vice President Dan Quayle in a speech to the American Samoans
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about President Obama’s healthcare law
“Well, I learned a lot….I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries.” President Ronald Reagan
“By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.” Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?” Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin
“So?” Vice President Dick Cheney
“This is an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.” President George W. Bush
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Richard Nixon
“Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.” Former New York City mayor Edward Koch, in an essay
“Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” Congresswoman and GOP Presidential nominee Michelle Bachmann
“It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, admitting she had never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis
“The administration was opposed to voting on (the Iraq war resolution) in the fall of 2002…because we didn’t think it belonged in the confines of the election. We thought it made it too political. We wanted it outside the confines of the election. It seemed it make things move too fast. There were things that needed to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad.” Former Bush adviser Karl Rove in an interview on The Charlie Rose Show
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.'” Vice President Joe Biden in an interview with Katie Couric
“You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more. I couldn’t disagree with you. I couldn’t agree with you more than the fact that Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most god-loving, most, most patriotic part of America, and this is a great part of the country.” GOP Presidential Nominee John McCain, Moon Township, Penn.
“We had no domestic attacks under Bush – we’ve had one under Obama.” Rudy Giuliani