“Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.” Quote by Robert Torricelli
“I quote the late Ed Murow. ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveLooksSaidEndsGuyPoliticsI BelieveOpinionMinesLateAccountsBarsReportersListen To MeEyewitnesses Author:Dan Rather
“A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.” ShouldIdeasLightPoliticsNamesBehindsCallingSpeechArgumentFreedom Of SpeechName Calling Author:Ann Coulter
“If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian... The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.” IfsKnowsShouldLooksRunningPoliticsPresidentLevelsMediaRepublicanClintonDemocratDesperateGoing AwayUglinessWhatever It TakesGetting Started Author:Paul Gigot
“There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.” PeopleReasonPoliticsDarkPlansMediaNewsArgumentStrategyCornersConvincedFewerElitesBiasReportersViewersDon't TrustDiscussing Author:Bernard Goldberg
“There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.” LooksLongHousePoliticsWhiteLevelsLong TimePercentVoteDemocraticStatisticsWhite HouseEditorsBiasReportersInfrastructure Author:Evan Thomas
“When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.” FirstsPoliticsJusticeRaceHalfKnownMoralToo MuchRightsCenturyMovementMembersStandardsCongressViolentCivil RightsAgencyDepartmentTwentieth CenturyCivil Rights MovementAttorneyCrusadesDouble StandardInvestigatingObstruction Author:Thomas Sowell
“In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.” MenGivingPoliticsHurtCuttingOppressionRaysGloom Author:Jeff Cooper
“I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.” IfsKnowsWantCountryReasonHatePolitics Author:Dennis Miller
“So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.” CountryHardBigsPoliticsCitizensRedSorrySwimPrincipalI'm SorryCubaWhipsMenaceFervor Author:Dennis Miller
“There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.” PeopleLittlesAmericaLawPoliticsAchieveEqualBreatheYearning Author:Ayn Rand