IT'S BEEN SAID
Every now and then I come across a quotation that is so preposterous, amazing, interesting, or bizarre, I want to tell others about it. This is the page I'll use to do so. These quotes don't qualify for my "Quotes" page -- they're not sufficiently inspiring -- but they certainly deserve preserving.


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Posted here for: 12-30-02.
From a solicitation letter. Address: Roe No More Ministry, PO Box 96451, Washington, DC 20090-6451.

"I said I was gang raped. And I wasn't. . . I said I didn't know who the father of my baby was. And I did. . . I said I wanted someone to kill my baby. And what I really wanted was someone to help me. . . [I]t was never my goal in life to be the woman whose lawsuit, Row v. Wade, legalized abortion in America. And it was never my intention to help millions of mothers kill their babies for any and every reason under the sun . . . And yet, that's what happened. 41 million babies died because of me. . . . And when I said the Constitution protected my right to abortion, I made that up, too. . . . I'm not afraid to say abortion is murder. And I'm not afraid to tell the deep dark secrets of the radical abortion lobby."
-- Ms. Norma McCorvey. formerly Jane Roe.



Posted here for: 12-16-02.
From "How Pro-Life Is GOP, Bush?" The New American, December 16, 2002, page 7. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"I agree that there is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a preborn child's life need be intentionally destroyed by procured abortion for the purpose of saving the life of the mother."
-- A statement signed by nearly 500 physicians.



Posted here for: 12-9-02.
From "Irritating and Irrelevant," by Jonah Goldberg, The American Enterprise, December 2002, page 34. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.

"Certain segments of the Left, both abroad and at home, simply believe that America is always wrong. Therefore anyone in opposition to America must be right. This explains why Hollywood morons and French intellectuals alike find the taste of Fidel Castro's posterior so palatable."
-- Jonah Goldberg.



Posted here for: 12-2-02.
From The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 21-27, 2002, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Jimmy Carter was not only an ineffectual president, at home and abroad, he has even been a nuisance as a former president, undermining his successors with his widely reported second-guessing of their foreign policies. Most former presidents, even those who were more successful in the White House than Mr. carter, have had the decency to keep quiet when their successors carried the heavy responsibilities of the presidency."
-- Thomas Sowell.



Posted here for: 11-25-02.
From Whistleblower, August 2002, page 27. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
-- Charles Darwin.



Posted here for: 11-18-02.
From "Twelve Years of American Renaissance," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, November 2002, page 3. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"Robert Frost once defined a liberal as someone who cannot take his own side in an argument. When it comes to racial arguments, whites are so liberal they do not even realize they have a side. They are a perfect example of unilateral disarmament. They have abandoned and even condemn every sign of loyalty to their own group while they encourage solidarity and group loyalty among the members of every other group. . . . This, then, is the great white paradox: Whiles claim to adore 'diversity,' but they make every effort to avoid it. They make every important decision in their lives -- where to live, whom to marry, where to send their children to school, whom to choose as friends, which church to attend -- as if it were made for racial reasons, but deny that race had anything to do with it."
-- Jared Taylor, editor, American Renaissance.



Posted here for: 11-11-02.
From "None Are 'Reasonable'"! Resource Roundup, August 2002, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"Friends of the Earth made the Sierra Club look reasonable. Earth First makes Friends of the Earth look reasonable. What we need now is an outfit that makes Earth First look reasonable."
-- David Brower, former Sierra Club executive director, founder of Friends of the Earth.



Posted here for: 11-4-02.
From "Catholics under Attack," by Mary Jo Anderson, Whistleblower, August 2002, page 7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Make no mistake, the new order is a Brave New World of total control: spiritual control (Peace Summit); population control (United Nations' Cairo, Beijing and Earth Summit); environmental control (U.N. Sustainable Development and Kyoto Protocol to preserve the planet and guarantee 'freedom from pollution'); 'species protection' (U.N. bio-diversity treaty); 'food security' (U.N. Food Summit); genetic control (no genetically imperfect mommy and daddy -- their offspring will be a drain on the universal healthcare); thought control (U.N.-mandated educational standards). Totalitarian utopias envision an utterly perfect world where 'peace' is ensured by state control of every facet of life."
-- Mary Jo Anderson.



Posted here for: 10-28-02.
From "Strom's Last Word: Leahy Lied," by David Freddoso, Human Events, October 14, 2002, pages 1 and 8. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"I was hurt and disappointed by this egregious act of destructive politics. Chairman [Patrick] Leahy [D.-Vt.] assured me on numerous occasions that Judge Shedd would be given a vote. I took him at his word." "In my 48 years in the United States Senate, I have never been treated in such a manner."
-- South Carolina Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, who will celebrate his 100th birthday December 5th of this year, in probably his last speech on the Senate floor. Thurmond sponsored Judge Shedd's appeals court nomination. Three Senate sources told Human Events that Leahy had reneged on a deal made with Judiciary Republicans in which they supported his bill to re-authorize the Department of Justice.



Posted here for: 10-21-02.
From "Quote of the Week," Human Events, May 27, 2002, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"There's a time to obstruct and a time to lead. Maybe Senator Daschle should buy a new watch if he can't figure out what time it is."
-- Representative Mark Foley (R. - Fla.) criticizing the Senate Democratic leader for not moving House-passed legislation to reform the Immigration and Naturalization Service, May 22, 2002. [But the comment is just as appropriate, if not more so, today.]



Posted here for: 10-14-02.
From "Quote of the Week," Human Events, September 30, 2002, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"I have never been able to accept Bill Clinton as a mature, responsible adult. . . My characterization of Bill Clinton is that he is the most successful adolescent I have ever known."
-- House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R. - Tex.) on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," September 25, 2002.










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