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"I’d rather be waterboarded than vote for Juan McCain."

-- sauropod, February 14, 2008.

" We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle
just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the
same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party
over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all."
-- Ronald Reagan, 1965

"If the big spenders get their way, they'll charge everything on your
Taxpayer's Express card, and believe me, they never leave home without it"
-- Ronald Reagan

Join me in a dream of a California whose government isn't characterized by political hacks
and cronies and relatives--an administration that doesn't make its decisions based on political
expediency but on moral truth. Together, let us find men to match our mountains. We can
have a government administered by men and women who are appointed on the basis of ability
and dedication--not as a reward for political favors. If we must have a double standard of morality,
then let it be one, which demands more of those in government, not less.
-- Ronald Reagan, 1966

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which
must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."
-- Ronald Reagan, CPAC February 15, 1975

"The common and continual mischief of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the
interest and duty of a wise People, to discourage and restrain it. The spirit of Party
always serves to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public administration,
agitating the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindling animosity
of one part against the other, fomenting riot and insurrection. It opens the door
to foreign influence and corruption which finds facilitated access to the government
itself through channels of Party passions."
-- George Washington, 1796 Farewell Address

" The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred
as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice
to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."
-- John Adams (1735-1826). Founding Father, 2nd US President

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations—entangling alliances with none."
-- President Thomas Jefferson, 1801

The Hall of Shame:

"I'd ask Warren Buffett to come back and run a commission to reform the institutions of government."
-- John McCain, October 14, 2007 interview with Charlie Rose
"This has been a tremendous economic system. It's a system that showers rewards on my particular skill set . . .
The tax system is the way to distribute the prosperity."
-- Warren Buffett, 2002 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting

"My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it," he once explained.
"People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the
people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. News & World Report, Nov 26, 1990
" Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every
single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion
about what you do and how you do it."
-- Rudy Giuliani, New York Times, March 17, 1994