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Maurice Henchey Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing New York's 22nd Congressional District (since 2003, formerly the 26th District).

Quote "We [the federal government] should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market."

In remarks June 18, 2008, according th a Fox News alert. Source: "Dems Want Control over U.S. Oil Flow," Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 8. Posted here: November 24, 2008. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: The left seems stronger and stronger in its denunciation of capitalism and embrace of socialism. With Barack Obama's election, the U.S. will surely quicken the pace in pursuit of radical socialist policy.

Christopher Hitchens Author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. He's also author of the 2007 book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (published in the UK as God is Not Great: The Case Against Religion.)

Quote "I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him [Reverend Jerry Falwell] to go to. [. . .] The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend. [. . .] People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup. [. . .] I think he was a conscious charlatan and bully and fraud. And I think, if he read the Bible at all -- and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book [. . .] at all -- that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way."

In remarks to CNN's Anderson Cooper. Source: "Hitchens: 'Wish There Was a Hell for Falwell'," by WorldNetDaily, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 16. Posted here: August 25, 2008. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: It's one thing to disagree with Reverend Falwell, quite another to disparage and besmirch the man. Hitchens said, "this horrible little person is offensive to very, very many of us who have some regard for truth and for morality, and who think that ethics do not require that lies be told to children by evil old men [. . . .] I'm glad to see he skipped the rapture, [and was] just found on the floor of his office [. . . .]

Jim Hoffa A member of the Teamsters since his 18th birthday (1959), and an attorney for the Teamsters from 1968 to 1993, he became president March 19, 1999.

Quote "Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?"

In a press release from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, defending "card check" legislation that would end secret ballots in union activities. Source: "StupidQuotes," The Limbaugh Letter, April 2009, page 12. Posted here: April 20, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: I'll tell you when the secret ballot is not a basic tenet of democracy. When nothing makes sense any more. When freedom is all about chains. When you must penalize rich countries to save the world from global warming. When you decide to spend because you don't have any money. When more and more government is the answer to government ineptitude.

John Holdren Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, Policy Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, U.S. Science Czar.

Quote "An abortion is clearly preferable to adding a child to an overburdened family or an overburdened society, where the chances that it will realize its full potentialities are slight."

As stated in a book he co-authored titled Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions. Source: "When Is a Human a 'Human Being'? Ask Obama's Science Adviser," by Terence P. Jeffrey, Human Events, August 3, 2009, page 8. Posted here: May 24, 2010. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: In the book EcoScience, co-authored in 1977 with John Holdren and his close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, he wrote, "Women could be forced to abort. The population could be chemically sterilized by contaminating water or food supplies. Babies of single mothers and teen mothers should be seized and given to couples. Those who 'contribute to social deterioration' can be sterilized or forced to have abortions. A transnational 'Planetary Regime' should assume control of the world's economy and dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives, using an armed international police force. (Source.) This is the man Obama has selected as policy advisor and Science Czar. Yes, we should be very afraid.