Neo-Con Quote Archive

"The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the -- the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."  George W. Bush, 10/27/03 as quoted on http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031027-1.html  

The best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." -  George Bush quoted by Michael Kinsley,  Washington Post, 10/17/03

"Rush is a great American. I am confident he can overcome any obstacles he faces right now." -- President Bush,

"Let's apply the A.A.D.D. quiz to our fidgety president and his foreign policy team:" Ritalin for America, Maureen Dowd, NY Times, 7/6/03

‘God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.  If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.”  "ON A MISSION FROM GOD", Slate 6/30/03

In his dissent to the decision striking down a Texas sodomy law and declaring that gays are "entitled to respect for their private lives," Justice Scalia raved that the court had "largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda" and predicted a "massive disruption of the current social order." (Has this man never seen a Rupert Everett movie?)  Maureen Dowd, NY Times

"Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist. And yet, almost always, when we make our threat assessments, when we look at the world, we end up basing it on the first two pieces of that puzzle rather than all" Rumsfeld quoted by Christopher Dickey in Newsweek Web Exclusive 6/4/03

‘God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.” George W. Bush, June 2003 in discussions with Abbas on Palistine.

 

"No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God".  George Bush Sr.,  August 27, 1987
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Dual quotes from the "Master of Soft Bigotry"

 

 "I don't need to tell that to the people in this room, but there is some in our country believe in the -- what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations. They don't believe in the bigotry, but because there's low expectations, there is a soft bigotry."
-- George W. Bush, White House, Sep. 4, 2002

"I'm the master of low expectations."
-- George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, Jun. 4, 2003

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"By the year 2002, we can have a federal government with a balanced budget
  or we can continue down the present path towards total fiscal catastrophe."
        Tom DeLay