‘Politicos’ Archives
Grassley: the government is a predator »
Medicare is part of the social fabric of America; to say that I support it is not to say that it’s the best program that it can be. The government is not a fair competitor, it’s a predator. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), during the Senate Finance Committee’s public option debate on Tuesday when asked if he supported [...]
Kennedy: there is freedom of speech, but … »
My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It’s a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally. It’s fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to [...]
Rockefeller’s past insane globablist aspirations »
This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long... We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order. David Rockefeller, during a Sept. 23 1994 United Nations' [...]
Mark Lloyd: white people need to step down in seats of »
… there’s nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the [...]
Mark Lloyd: free speech is warped and exaggerated »
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. … he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global [...]
Paterson’s wife implies Obama shows racism »
You never heard of that before, David’s the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he’s being asked to get out of the race. It’s very unusual and it seems very unfair… I never heard of a president asking a governor not to run … so I thought it was very unusual that this would be asked of David and I don’t [...]
ACORN CEO: We are not going to take this lying down »
We are not going to take this lying down. We believe that — in fact, we know, that this was a form of entrapment. And, yes, we're going to go after this videographer and FOX. FOX, because they run with things without checking and using any journalistic standards, they got kind of caught up and got duped themselves. For FOX and the right wing [...]
Brzezinski: US military should confront Israel »
Daily Beast: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest? Brzezinski: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? Daily Beast: What if they fly over anyway? Brzezinski: Well, we [...]
Barack Obama calls the U.S. constitution an »
I think it’s a remarkable document… The original Constitution as well as the Civil War Amendments…but I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture, the Colonial culture nascent at that time. African-Americans were not — first of all they weren’t [...]
Joe Biden: Less concerned with Iranian potential »
I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present or future potential Iranian threat. The whole purpose of this exercise we are undertaking is to diminish the prospect of the Iranians destabilizing that region in the world. I am less concerned — much less concerned — about the Iranian potential. They have no potential at this [...]
