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Quoteworthy Archive
30 Day Archive
"For the record, every program the government put in place in 2009 has failed. Yet, we keep doing the same thing, at a cost of literally trillions of dollars. This is madness to the nth power."
-- Investor's Business Daily editorial - Jan. 11, 2009 01/11/2010
"Jack Lewin, who heads the American College of Cardiology, said in an interview that the crackdown will cause 'a horrible disruption' that will force many community and independent practices to close their doors, lay off staff or make senior patients wait days or weeks for tests and services."
-- Wall Street Journal 10/08/2009
"There are three certainties in life: (a) death, (b) taxes, and (C) no health care bill supported by Nita Lowey and Rosa DeLauro and signed by Barack Obama could possibly fail to cover abortions."
-- Ann Coulter, Human Events 08/27/2009
Since when is it a 'left-wing lifestyle' to eat healthy? Does [Think Progress contributor] Matthew Yglasias, the author of this passage, really wish to demonize conservatives to the extent of suggesting that they are bad eaters, and that only liberals can want fresh, organic food? It's one thing to disagree with one's political opponents -- and another to claim that they are somehow incapable of living a good life.
-- BMI adviser Don Luskin on left-wing attacks on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey for his health care stance 08/20/2009
"Our national conversation about curbing the cost of health care is crippled by the vocabulary in which we conduct it. We must stop talking about 'health care' as if it were some kind of collective public service, like fire protection, provided equally to everyone who needs it. No government can provide the same high quality body repair services to everyone. Not all doctors are equally good physicians, and not all sick persons are equally good patients."
-- Dr. Thomas Szasz 07/15/2009
"In the manner that TV does work, Obama had his way from early morning to latenight on ABC Wednesday to push his agenda for massive social change on healthcare. In short, he owned ABC's airwaves."
-- David Zurawik - Baltimore Sun 06/25/2009
"To address this will require comprehensive reform ... Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game."
-- Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, Bloomberg 03/26/2009
"The illusion that Barack Obama will lead from the economic center has quickly come to an end. Instead of combining the best policies of past Democratic presidents ... President Obama is returning to Jimmy Carter's higher taxes and Mr. Clinton's draconian defense drawdown."
-- Opinion Journal - WSJ 03/09/2009
"We're not going down in flames, friends. We're just getting started. All great economic successes are built on the ashes of a previous conflagration."
-- Dave Maney, CNN's "American Morning" Feb. 17, 2009 02/17/2009
"The silver lining in this whole debate is that Americans are now finding out what the true stakes are in Washington: It's a battle between government control over our lives or the freedom that made America great. Freedom isn't an ideology - it works. Freedom is the only thing that has ever worked and I will continue fighting for it."
-- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on the $800-Billion Stimulus Debate 02/13/2009
"The silver lining in this whole debate is that Americans are now finding out what the true stakes are in Washington: It's a battle between government control over our lives or the freedom that made America great. Freedom isn't an ideology – it works. Freedom is the only thing that has ever worked and I will continue fighting for it."
-- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Feb. 13, 2009, on $800 Billion Stimulus Debate 02/13/2009
"Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries. To do this, we need trillion-dollar deficits, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off-but, with sufficient investment in prevention measures, there won't be any children or grandchildren, so there's that problem solved."
-- Mark Steyn for National Review on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's STD Stimulus 02/05/2009
"Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries. To do this, we need trillion-dollar deficits, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off-but, with sufficient investment in prevention measures, there won't be any children or grandchildren, so there's that problem solved."
-- Mark Steyn for National Review on Pelsoi's STD Stimulus 02/05/2009
On Pelosi's "STD" stimulus: "Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries. To do this, we need trillion-dollar deficits, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off—but, with sufficient investment in prevention measures, there won’t be any children or grandchildren, so there’s that problem solved."
-- Mark Steyn for National Review 02/05/2009
"In implementing his agenda, Barack Obama will emulate the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Not the liberal mythology of the the New Deal, but the actuality of what it accomplished.)"
-- Dick Morris, The Hill 01/22/2009
"The last several months are a foreshadowing of a new era of government activism, rather than an unfortunate but necessary (and anomalous) emergency action. We will soon shift from a market-based economy to a political one in which the government picks winners and losers and extends its reach and power in unprecedented ways."
-- Peter Wehner and Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16, 2009 01/16/2009
"Successful businesses overcome the odds placed in front of them by government. Failing businesses are those who are looking for help from government to keep them going."
-- Rush Limbaugh 01/13/2009
"Until we invade Canada and recognize the malicious intent of our neighbors to the north and start building tanks rather than cars that no one wants, GM is going nowhere."
-- Jeff Macke on General Motors Post-Bailout - CNBC's "Fast Money" 01/02/2009
"Until we invade Canada and recognize the malicious intent of our neighbors to the north, rather than cars that no one wants, GM is going nowhere."
-- Jeff Macke on General Motors Post-Bailout - CNBC's "Fast Money" 01/02/2009
"If we had an economy without rich people, we wouldn't have much of an economy. Tha's why lower tax rates to reward the economic activists - the most prominent capitalists — are so essential."
-- Larry Kudlow - Investor's Business Daily 12/31/2008
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."
-- President George W. Bush on CNN Dec. 16, 2008 12/19/2008
"It is precisely because the Big Three differ in no essential way from America's other firms that bailing them out runs a real risk of cascading into a march on Washington by countless firms unable to see why they are less entitled to taxpayer funds."
-- Don Boudreaux, The Wall Street Journal 12/11/2008
"I was hoping to see the new F.D.R. Maybe we will yet. We sure could use him right about now."
-- NY Times columnist Joe Nocera on President-elect Obama's first press conference, Nov. 8, 2008 11/10/2008
"...right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever know, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it possible."
-- Investor's Business Daily editorial, Oct. 10, 2008 10/13/2008
"Mmm, smokes, I guess."
-- Fifth-grader to CBS' Dave Price when asked what her mother wastes money on, "The Early Show," Oct. 10. 10/10/2008
"[T]his whole thing started because people were taking out mortgages they couldn't afford to pay. That was something millions of individual Americans decided to do on their own. No one put a gun to their head and said, 'Take out a loan that's interest rate is going to ratchet up.'"
-- Ari Fleischer on the mortgage mess, NBC "Today," Sept. 19, 2008 09/19/2008
"[T]he current cascade of financial crises doesn't have a blooming thing to do with 'laissez faire' capitalism. These banks are regulated to the hilt. When (then) Senator Corzine and others decided to use the Enron scandal to ramp up the volume of new Wall Street regulations, I and other supply siders warned about the unintended consequences of their actions."
-- Jerry Bowyer, CNBC.com 09/17/2008
"The Democratic leadership isn't oblivious to this man-at-the-pump reality. But Al Gore's vision of the apocalyptic tides of climate change perfectly expresses their mentality: Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid see soaring prices as a public good -- the mechanism that will force energy enlightenment on the U.S. If anything, they think the price of gas is too low."
-- Wall Street Journal Editorial, Aug. 1, 2008. 08/01/2008
"If I hear one of these ignorant, hypocritical, sanctimonious free traders ever talk about free markets again, they should be pilloried."
-- CNN Host Lou Dobbs on free market proponents, July 22, 2008. 07/23/2008
"For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this threat. I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as president. It's a strategy that will create millions of job that pay well and cannot be outsourced, and one that will leave our children a world that is cleaner and safer."
-- Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Al Gore's energy speech, July 17, 2008 07/21/2008
"Tomatoes are safe to eat again."
-- ABC "Good Morning America" host Deborah Roberts, July 18. 07/18/2008
"I think it's a monster error. I know -- I'm sitting here saying, 'What are these people smoking?'"
-- Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Wolff on Rush Limbaugh's $400 million contact extension 07/07/2008
"Senator Obama and the Democratic Congress, there's gonna be a Democratic Congress is going to move toward raising taxes. That's just gonna come. It's gonna come on energy, it's gonna come on the general taxes on people above $250,000 ..."
-- David Gergen, CNN "Issue #1" June 4, 2008 06/05/2008
"[T]he real problem here is the guys sitting behind the rostrum asking these questions who are barring us from getting to these oil reserves that we have here in the United States."
-- Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., on fellow senators who have blocked oil drilling in the U.S., CNBC, May 22, 2008. 05/27/2008
"This particular slump seems to be milder than any recession since the Great Depression."
-- John Lonski, chief economist at Moody's Investors Service, in an interview with Bloomberg TV. 05/19/2008
"I think we need to begin to spend more on food, both in terms of money and time. I know that's not a popular message. People like their convenience food. But this experiment of outsourcing our food preparation to corporations has failed us. I mean it's left us really unhealthy and really unsatisfied and I think it's undermined family life and undermined community."
-- Author Michael Pollan, ABC "Nightline," May 8, 2008 05/13/2008
"Consumers, buffeted by rising costs for gasoline and groceries, have been finding ways to cut back on nonessential spending. But the Walt Disney Company said Tuesday that it saw no weakness in its theme park business."
-- The New York Times - May 7, 2008 05/07/2008
"This is not, not very common. I mean I have to go back to my memories of World War II to remember rationing in any serious way."
-- Earth Policy Institute founder Lester Brown, on Sam's Club limiting rice purchases to 80 pounds, NBC "Today" April 24, 2008 04/24/2008
"That means the Olympic torch will spew as much greenhouse gas during its international travels as 153 Americans do a year."
-- Chadwick Matlin - Slate.com 04/16/2008
"Climate change will increase UV levels and therefore increase the risk of developing cataracts."
-- Andreas Mueller of the Fred Hollows Foundation, in The Economic Times 04/08/2008
"I want to make a distinction. This is not a depression and we've seen that word thrown around quite a bit. And anyone who does throw out that word just honestly doesn't know what they are talking about. It's so much worse than this."
-- Lakshman Achuthan, CNN American Morning, April 3, 2008 04/03/2008
"In the 'Mad Money' swamp, icky things bob up and break the slimy surface. Eeek! I'm on the same side as Fox Business News! That's disgusting!"
-- Dean Starkman, writing for the 'Columbia Journalism Review," March 24, 2008 03/26/2008
"Bad news begets bad news which begets bad sentiment and decreases confidence. So I think we can talk ourselves into a recession, no doubt about it. It's troubling to constantly hear more negative headlines."
-- CNBC Anchor Maria Bartiromo, in an interview with the Financial Times, March 14, 2008 03/17/2008
"As a friend of mine from our program, Jerry Bowyer, likes to say, 'Monetary policy is a lot like sex: the first moments are highly exhilerating, but the final consequences don't occur for nine months."
-- Larry Kudlow on CNBC's "The Call," March 7, 2008 03/07/2008
"Let's start with the fact that Texas's growth puts the lie to the myth that free trade costs American jobs."
-- Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2008. 03/03/2008
"The Doomsday Vault is the ultimate insurance against catastrophe, natural disasters, nuclear war, global warming."
-- ABC's Jim Sciutto, "Good Morning America," Feb. 26, 2008 02/26/2008
"[T]he best thing that could happen to our economy is for a dozen high-profile hedge funds to collapse; for investment banking to enter a long, deep freeze; for a major bank to fail; and for the price of a typical Park Avenue duplex to fall by 30 percent."
-- Columnist Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2008 02/21/2008
"In the year ahead, the pundits, the so-called experts, the commentators, analysts will offer more gloomy predictions and more big-government solutions. And when they do let us remember the record – this is the book they seldom correct."
-- President George W. Bush, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 8, 2008 02/11/2008
"We can talk ourselves into a recession, and that seems to be what we're doing right now and that certainly begets more weakness."
-- CNBC's Maria Bartiromo to NBC "Today" show host Meredith Vieira, Feb. 6, 2008 02/07/2008
"Anthony, you're starting to sound like the grim reaper every night."
-- "CBS Evening News" Anchor Katie Couric to Business Correspondent Anthony Mason, Jan. 30, 2008 01/31/2008
"Government cannot create genuine spending power; the most it can do is to transfer it from Smith to Jones."
-- Donald J. Boudreaux, chairman of the George Mason University economic department, in the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 24, 2008 01/23/2008
"[H]e's crazy -- certifiably."
-- CNBC host Erin Burnett on "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer, 01/18/2008
"[H]e's crazy -- certifiably."
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CNBC host Erin Burnett on "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer 01/18/2008
"The answer is that we have to point out the positives with the negatives."
-- CNBC's Jim Cramer, acknowling that the media's negativity contributes to recession on the "Today" show Jan. 17, 2008 01/17/2008
"What are you proposing in terms of trying to make sure, particularly as it looks like we are going into a recession in this country, that people can hang onto the job they've got, that people will be able to get a job -- those who were laid off -- people will be able to weather this mortgage crisis, not lose their homes."
-- CNN's John Roberts, interviewing presidential hopeful John Edwards, Jan. 17, 2008 01/17/2008
"Governor, do you have any plans for any kind of a cutting taxes to get the economy just, say, on a -- on a national -- on a nationwide level? Do you have any kind of a plan to bring the country out of a recession?"
-- Bob Schieffer to Gov. Mike Huckabee, CBS "Face the Nation," Jan. 13, 2008 01/14/2008
"The US economy will slip into recession this year."
-- CNBC Reporter Melissa Francis, Jan. 10, 2008 "World News with Charles Gibson" 01/14/2008
"Nobody wants a recession in 2008, but lots of people are afraid that we might get one."
-- CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi, Jan. 7, 2008 01/07/2008
"I don't think Jesus would cross the picket line, no, I'm almost positive Jesus would be on our side."
-- A striking member of the Writers Guild of America, Jan. 3, 2008 "Early Show" 01/04/2008
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