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I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!
Alphabetical Listing of Quoted Individuals: C.
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| Jackie Chan
Actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer.
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"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."
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Said April 18, 2009 during a speech to Hainan business leaders at a Chinese business forum.
Source: "Casting Aspersions on Chinese," NewsMax magazine, July 2009, page 44. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
Posted here: September 7, 2008.
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Comment: What a disappointment! Mr. Chan has enjoyed a rich and satisfying life, yet he's totally unaware that the source of his success, wealth, and happiness is freedom! What a pity he does not have the insight of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote in 1867: "For what avail the plow or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"
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| Eleanor Clift
Editor, columnist, political commentator, pundit, reporter and author. She is a contributing editor for Newsweek, and her weekly column, "Capitol Letter" is posted on Newsweek.com and MSNBC. She is a regular on the "The McLaughlin Group" TV show.
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"Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may, in many instances, be better than being a poor child in Miami."
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In remarks following the incident where Elian Gonzalez was seized in a machine-gun raid in Miami in 2000 and sent back to Cuba.
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, 2007, page 72.
Posted here: May 6, 2008.
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Comment: Perhaps Ms. Clift ought to move to Cuba herself for a couple of years and see if she remains so enamored with the Communist dictatorship.
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| Bill Clinton
Served as the forty-second President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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"Obama will have to [. . .] kiss my ass [. . .] if he wants [my] support."
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As quoted by an unnamed Democrat insider speaking to The [UK] Telegraph.
Source: "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, August 2008, page 6.
Posted here: November 3, 2008.
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Comment: Apparently there's not much fondness to be found between the Obamas and Clintons. Nevertheless, Obama may wish to nominate Hillary to the Supreme Court just to get her out of the way, politically.
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| Hillary Clinton
The junior United States Senator from New York, and candidate for the Democrat nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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"This is not America's war to win or lose."
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In a statement April 26, 2007.
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, 2007, page 136.
Posted here: May 6, 2008.
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Comment: Heaven help us if we lose this war. And if we do, it will be the result of liberal actions and policies like those espoused by Ms. Hillary.
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| Hillary Clinton
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"[I]n the last weeks I just said some things that weren't in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And, you know, I'm embarrassed by it . . . it just didn't jibe with what I had written about and knew to be the turth.."
[Some folks would simply say it was a "lie".]
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Responding to a question from George Stephanopoulos April 16, 2008.
Source: "Liberalism Lies," by Rush Limbaugh, The Limbaugh Letter, May 2008, page 15.
Posted here: May 15, 2008.
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Comment: If Ms. Clinton is so quick and easy with a lie, how can you believe anything she says? Do you want this woman representing you in the Senate? Do you want this woman lying to our friends and enemies around the world from the White House? Many say: "Yes!"
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| Hillary Clinton
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"You f**king a**hole!"
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Spoken to Bill Clinton on the day he was inaugurated, during a not-unusual moment of anger.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 17.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: It seems Hillary tries hard to compete with men, and has adopted some rather unladylike speaking habits.
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| Hillary Clinton
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"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices. . . . Government has to make those choices for people."
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Speaking to Representative Dennis Hastert, regarding who should control the allocation of money in her health care reform plan, June 1993. Hastert said Hillary also said, "[Parents] won't take their kid to the hospital when he needs to go because they want to keep the money for themselves."
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 19.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: The over-arching idea, that government is better able to make decisions for the citizens than are the citizens themselves, is very apparent in Ms. Clinton's statement. This is fundamental to communist and socialist thinking.
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| Hillary Clinton
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"We can't afford to have that money go to the private sector. The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it."
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Speaking to Representative Dennis Hastert about health care reform, June 1993.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 19.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: It seems in Hillary's view, government should be the central control entity in everyone's lives. Of course that's the recipe for loss of individual freedom. And it's completely contrary to the intentions of our Founding Fathers.
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| Hillary Clinton
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"G**d*mn it . . . You bastard . . . It's your f**king fault."
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Said to President Bill Clinton after some bad news was received regarding the Whitewater investigation.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 25.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: In his book, Dereliction of Duty (page 68), author Robert Patterson also wrote: "I witnessed several incidents like this; and while I got used to Hillary's wrath, her ability to turn it off and on amazed me."
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| Hillary Clinton
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"Wouldn't it be hysterical if someone just happened to remove all the Ws from the computer keyboards?"
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A remark made on the First Lady's final evening in the White House. The next day many White House computer keyboards had been stripped of the letter W.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 34.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: Although Democrats claimed there was no damage done in the White House, a General Accounting Office investigation assessed damage at $19,000.
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| Hillary Clinton
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"You are a real s**t, do you know that, Bill? Christ, a real s**t."
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Said to Bill Clinton after it was reported he had used state troopers to procure women for him.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 35.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: Clinton aide Betsey Wright said of the troopers' allegations, "As far as I can tell, they're telling the truth."
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| Hillary Clinton
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"That'll teach them to f**k with us."
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Spoken to aides following her "vast right-wing conspiracy" charge on national TV.
Source: "Hillary in Her Own Words," Whistleblower, May 2008, page 35.
Posted here: June 6, 2008.
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Comment: (No comment necessary.)
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| Sean "Diddy" Combs
Known by his stage names "Puff Daddy," "P. Diddy," "Diddy," and "Puffy," he is a record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer.
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"If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America. [. . .] Obama or die! Obama or die!"
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At the Black Entertainment Television awards at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, June 24, 2008.
Source: "Obama or Die?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2008, page 5.
Posted here: September 29, 2008.
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Comment: Imagine the uproar if someone of note had shouted "McCain or die! McCain or die!" We'd still be hearing howls of scorn and indignation about it from the mainstream media.
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| James Cone
Founder of black liberation theology. In his 1969 book, Black Theology and Black Power, Professor Cone (who has been awarded eight honorary degrees) stated, "Being black in America has little to do with skin color. Being black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are." (Page 151.) He is the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him."
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Stated in his 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation.
Source: "A Post-Racial President . . .," by Ellison Lodge, American Renaissance, March 2010, page 4. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
Posted here: March 10, 2010.
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Comment: In his book, A Black Theology of Liberation, Professor Cone also stated, "What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of Black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
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| Ceci Connolly
National staff writer at the Washington Post since 1997.
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"[W]e certainly did not want to seem unpatriotic."
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In remarks in 2002, commenting that it was "awkward" for the media after September 11, 2001..
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, 2007, page 224.
Posted here: May 6, 2008.
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Comment: I guess it's okay for the media to be unpatriotic, as long as they don't seem unpatriotic. More and more the unpatriotic nature of the mainstream media is becoming clear.
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| James Corbett
European history teacher at Capistrano Valley High School in California.
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"Conservatives don't want women to avoid pregnancies. That's interfering with God's work. You got to stay pregnant, barefoot, and in the kithen and have babies until your body collapses."
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In remarks made during his history class, as recorded by student Chad Farnan.
Source: "The O'Reilly Factor," TV show on Fox News May 7, 2009.
Posted here: May 25, 2009.
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Comment: Dr. Corbett was also quoted as saying: "What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!" (Source.) What do you suppose Dr. Corbett expects his students to conclude from his instruction?
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| Walter Cronkite
Now a retired broadcast journalist, best known as 19-year anchorman for the CBS Evening News (1962–81). During the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America."
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"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government. [. . .] To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty."
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In remarks to those present when he received the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalist Association.
Source: "3 Candidates for Global Governance," by Henry Lamb, Whistleblower magazine, June 2008, page 31.
Posted here: September 15, 2008.
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Comment: The willingness -- anxiousness -- of liberals to compromise U.S. interests in an effort to empower a foreign agency -- the UN -- is stunning. Isn't this close to the definition of treason?
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| Sheryl Crow
Singer-songwriter, musician, and political activist. She has won nine Grammy Awards.
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"[The] best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."
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Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, 2007, page 205.
Posted here: May 6, 2008.
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Comment: Brilliant!
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