Which is your favorite quote?

Question

Clinton lied but no one died.

Abortion: Safe, Legal and Rare (1.2 million per year)

Affirmative Action: Just mend it, don't end it.

"Mission Accomplished!"

"READ MY LIPS: NO NEW TAXES!!!!"

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

"I have never had a bad game of naked twister"

Any others would be welcome as well!

Answer 1

I like: Abortion: Safe, Legal and Rare

Answer 2

I like this one from the greatest president of my lifetime:

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - President Ronald Reagan

These are not bad either:

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
-- Thomas Paine

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
-- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook.
-- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel
-- H.L. Mencken

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
-- U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-- Thomas Carlyle

Answer 3

If we can remove the politics of who said it, I think that the following is still very pertinent today. But no matter how profound and how timeless, people still ignore its message:


Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.


We still hear it and see the footage of when JFK said it, but it doesn't seem to have impacted the thinking of many Americans, after all this time.

Answer 4

The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." — Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." — Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

Answer 5

"That depends on what your definition of the word "is" is..."

-Clinton, B, 1998


Can't recall the quote verbatim, but this is my favorite. Unfortunately, my teachers, parents, and (now) ex-girlfriend didn't find it quite as humorous when I used it on them.

Answer 6

I prefer "2008, the end of an error"

but that's just me :)

Answer 7

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.

Answer 8

"I did not have sex with that woman." -- Clinton, while wagging his finger at the American public on broadcast TV

Answer 9

my favorite quote is from me....
"ole dubya...what a pathetic embarrasment to the country"

Answer 10

Never look up a dead dog's @ss.