ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

-Alan Corenk

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

-Barack Obama

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.

-Abraham Lincoln

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

- Joseph Joubert

Oh, filddle-dee-dee!

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
-G. K. Chesterton

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.

- Barry Goldwater

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.

- Thomas Jefferson

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

-Benjamin Franklin

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

- Edmund Burke

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

-Woody Allen

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

- Orson Scott Card

Deadbeat Dud...

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

-Bertrand Russell

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY

The U.S. economy is healthy, it's fundamentally very strong.

-George Bush (Sept. 16, 2008)

Our economy I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

- John McCain (Sept. 15, 2008)

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

-Herbert Hoover (Oct. 30, 1929)

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

-John Quincy Adams

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

- Clarence S. Darrow

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

- Mark B. Cohen

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

-Winston Churchill

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY...

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

-Edmund Burke

Running on Fumes...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

-Emma Lazarus

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

- H. L. Mencken

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

-Emma Goldman

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

- Will Rogers

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

I would rather have a clean government than one where the, quote, First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

- John McCain

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

- John McCain

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?

- John McCain

Existential Bop...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

-Lin Yutang

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.

-Walter H. Judd

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

-H. L. Mencken

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

-Tom Stoppard

ELECTION 2008 QUOTE OF THE DAY

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

-E. B. White