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This Week In Quotes: Mar 23 – Mar 29
30 Mar 2012 1:05 am John Hawkins

I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president, having to uphold Roe v. Wade. And I did everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. I made it easy to adopt children, for instance, that were unwanted and also initiated the program called Women and Infant Children, or WIC program, that’s still in existence now. But except for the times when a mother’s life is in danger or when a pregnancy is caused …

This Week In Quotes: March 16 – March 22
23 Mar 2012 1:05 am John Hawkins

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? Too soon, right? — Robert De Niro
I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again. — Senior Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom
I tell people (Romney’s) like a 4-foot-8 guy who wants to play center and his only technique is to shrink the others, which I think bodes very …

This Week In Quotes: March 9 – March 15
16 Mar 2012 3:10 am John Hawkins

If you’ve ever wondered what Government By Hippies might look like, now you know. — Ace
Cultural Diversity: Only two cultures are permitted– atheistic and Islamic. — Ace
When it’s useful, the 99% claims everyone in the 99%.But when someone gets raped, Occupy starts getting very exclusive about who is part of the “movement.” — Ace
So far, 7,881,788 people in 22 states have pulled the lever for any Republican primary hopeful. In 2008, those same 22 states delivered at least 8,401,502 votes for Republicans. (And probably many more: Popular-vote counts for 2008 …

This Week In Quotes: March 2-8
9 Mar 2012 4:40 am John Hawkins

By the way, have you noticed that many people from Obama’s past live in abject poverty? His half brother lives in a shack in Kenya, his aunt and uncle live on the dole in Boston illegally. And his childhood nanny who’s transgendered lives in a filthy slum in Indonesia…Pay no attention to the way Obama cares for his own extended family. He really cares about yours… — American Glob
More often than not, in the United States these days, it’s the secular Left imposing its morality on the religious Right. Don’t …

This Week In Quotes: Feb 23 – Mar 1
2 Mar 2012 2:41 am John Hawkins

“Let’s support children who do exist.” Oh, that reminds me. The great atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledges that God might exist. In that spirit, shouldn’t pro-choice people acknowledge that children in the womb might exist? But the big question, in both cases, is: What are you going to do about it? — Ann Althouse
“I used to be a conservative.” — Jeb Bush
And this is where it becomes difficult to honor the Roman injunction to speak no ill of the dead. It’s difficult for me to assess Breitbart’s impact upon American media …

This Week In Quotes: Feb 17 – Feb 23
24 Feb 2012 1:31 am John Hawkins

There is no anti-woman move whatsoever. The Republican Party is extremely pro-woman. — Michele Bachmann
In fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent $910 billion on 70 means-tested programs, which comes to an average of $9,000 per year on every lower-income person in the United States. — Pat Buchanan
Half of all children born to women under 30 in America now are illegitimate. Three in 10 white children are born out of wedlock, as are 53 percent of Hispanic babies and 73 percent of black babies. — Pat Buchanan
“It is an outrage …

This Week In Quotes (Double Edition): Feb 3 – Feb 16
17 Feb 2012 2:21 am John Hawkins

“Massachusetts is your bitchy spinster telling you to sit up straight.” — Tucker Carlson
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The official unemployment rate excludes those individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well …

This Week In Quotes: Jan 27 – Feb 2
3 Feb 2012 3:37 am John Hawkins

You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution – Canada …

This Week In Quotes: Jan 20-26
27 Jan 2012 1:43 am John Hawkins

(If the rich are evil) why are you sitting in their library? Why are you sitting in their hall? Why did I just listen to a whole show on orangutans with no commercials that they paid for? — Adam Carolla
The buzz in Washington now is that the Republican Establishment fears Gingrich will cause them to lose the House and not get the Senate. Put another way, the current Republican leadership fears that the man who helped the GOP take back the House for the first time in 40 years and …

This Week In Quotes: Jan 13 – Jan 19
20 Jan 2012 1:07 am John Hawkins

Mitt Romney: Because “electability” doesn’t have to mean an actual record of winning elections. — Ace
Still, just because the private equity revolution was necessary doesn’t mean that it was an unmitigated good. And for Mitt Romney to frame criticisms of Bain as just “the bitter politics of envy,” as he did last week, displays a tone-deafness that could cost him the presidency. No one — and certainly no politician — who has profited so immensely from an age of insecurity should ever appear to be lecturing the people who’ve …

This Week In Quotes: Jan 5 – Jan 12
13 Jan 2012 3:43 am John Hawkins

Romney is starting to come across as a bully. Everybody understands that he has all these friends who can write big checks and they hide behind a super PAC, and they run negative ads. And that comes across as the rich kid who shows up showing you all the toys he has and then, when you’re not looking, takes yours away. And I think that that starts to smell bad to people when they see a candidate that’s going to run that type of relentless, negative barrage and …

This Week In Quotes: Double Edition (Dec 22 – Jan 5)
6 Jan 2012 12:01 am John Hawkins

Last chance for light bulbs. Make sure you’ve got enough to last a lifetime… with extras to leave to your children and grandchildren… so that they can know that once there was light… and it was a warm light… there were bulbs that glowed. And the heartless government, which had no feeling for warmth and glow, took those bulbs away. — Althouse
Kent Sorenson personally told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Paul campaign. Kent said to me yesterday that ‘everyone …

This Week In Quotes: Dec 16 – Dec 22
23 Dec 2011 3:00 am John Hawkins

A Washington Post opinion piece cites a survey that found “African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.” And blacks are 25 percent of New York City’s population. Occupy Wall Street was a home game for them. By contrast, 6 percent of tea party supporters, according to an April 2010 Gallup poll, are black. That’s almost four times the number of blacks who make up Occupy Wall Street. — Larry Elder
Look, I’ll tell you what. If he wants …

This Week In Quotes: Dec 9 – Dec 15
16 Dec 2011 12:01 am John Hawkins

Another reason Gingrich isn’t fading is Mitt Romney. Let’s face it: Mitt Romney is the Republican version of Al Gore. Even people who are predisposed to liking him can’t seem to get there. — Jed Babbin
The very problems that have roiled Europe’s economy are coming to a slow boil in the U.S. Just as European leaders must limit deficit spending, reform unfunded entitlement programs, and resolve the underlying systemic problems in their financial systems, so must the politicians in Washington. Yet the Obama administration is burning taxpayers at each end …

This Week In Quotes: Dec 2 – Dec 8
9 Dec 2011 5:29 am John Hawkins

And while I am disappointed, there are more than a few silver linings to doing this work outside the context of a presidential campaign. The process by which we choose our nation’s leader is ridiculous. There is little focus on policy substance and even less on candidates’ governing skills. If you’re not warding off some wild accusation, you’re explaining away a ‘gaffe,’ which is usually the sort of slip of the tongue that anyone can make, but because some reporter heard it, it turns into a news-cycle narrative with a …

This Week In Quotes: Nov 18 – Nov 24
25 Nov 2011 12:01 am John Hawkins

For Americans who are unaware of the Democrats’ history of repeatedly reneging on their promises to cut spending in return for tax hikes, the Republicans’ opposition to tax increases does seem crazy. That’s why Republicans need to remind them. — Ann Coulter
So when we get to the general election, Mitt Romney will have Jenn Rubin of the Washington Post cheerleading him with the editorial page of National Review behind her and virtually every other Republican giving him golf claps on the way to annihilation against a base of black …

This Week In Quotes: Nov 4 – Nov 17 (Double Edition)
18 Nov 2011 12:45 pm John Hawkins

“Sexual harassment” is an amorphous word that can be manipulated to infer guilt onto anyone. At some point society has to say enough is enough, this is overkill. Most men are friendly in the workplace and when their friendliness rises to the level of flirting it is all too frequently welcomed and encouraged. The rare incidents where a clueless man does not realize his flirting is not welcome should not be punished by destroying his career. The punishment is overkill and does not fit the behavior. Feminists want to have …

This Week In Quotes: Oct 30 – Nov 3
4 Nov 2011 1:35 am John Hawkins

I have a pretty good idea how the 21st century works and (pause) there’s not a single successful country on the planet that operates on the theory that the government is the problem (pause) not one. Every successful country has both a strong private economy and a smart, strong government that work together to provide economic opportunity, educational opportunity, provide decent health care and get into the future. — Bill Clinton
Liberals are terrified of Herman Cain. He is a strong conservative black man. Look at the way they go after …

This Week In Quotes: Oct 21 – Oct 27
28 Oct 2011 12:01 am John Hawkins

Obama, who sounded so fresh in 2008, now sometimes sounds a bit like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi. Obama, who inspired the country, now threatens to run a campaign that is viciously negative. Obama, who is still widely admired because he is reasonable and calm, is in danger of squandering his best asset by pretending to be someone he is not. Obama, a natural unifier and conciliator, seems on the verge of running as a divisive populist while accusing Mitt Romney, his possible opponent, of being inauthentic. — David Brooks
God …

This Week In Quotes: Oct 14 – Oct 20
21 Oct 2011 2:46 am John Hawkins

In New York, marchers chanted, “This is what democracy looks like,” but, actually, this isn’t what democracy looks like. This is what freedom of speech looks like. Democracy looks a lot more boring. Democracy requires institutions, elections, political parties, rules, laws, a judiciary, and many unglamorous, time-consuming activities, none of which are nearly as much fun as camping out in front of St. Paul’s cathedral or chanting slogans on the Rue St. Martin in Paris. — Anne Applebaum
Can the test-score gap be closed? With the Hispanic illegitimacy rate at …

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