[DanielRedfoot]

OK granted, Sakharov was not a ranting Leninist but why wouldn't Harry quote a founder or an American patriot to make his simplistic, sophomoric point. O wait, Harry IS a ranting Leninist...

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Can someone get the exact quote?

Video?

[madison10]

I feel ill and it’s not the H1N1.

[politicket]

Full text of Reid's statement here:

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/reid-the-greatest-deliberative-body-must-at-least-deliberate-health-care-reform.php

[blackminorca]

Let me guess - is it because the Dems are as close to communism as they have ever been?

[shankbear]

The wimp, Harry Reid, needs a good bitchslapping. The voters in his state need to retire his sorry ass in the next election. Do they have the gonads to do it?

[Sherman Logan]

Harry Reid quotes communist Andrei Sakharov

I don't know whether Sakharov was ever a member of the Communist Party.

I do know he ranks with Solzhenitsyn, Thatcher, Walesa, JPII and Reagan among those who helped bring down the USSR, the greatest achievement of the second half of the 20th century.

He was persecuted for his stand by the KGB and I personally would be honored to quote him.

[Nateman]

I got a quote for you Harry: “you can’t polish a turd”.

[NightOfTheLivingDems]

Harry Reid speaks like a soft-spoken schoolgirl.

And that he is, beside being a total failure of manhood. He's a corrupt, greedy little punk.

[sergeantdave]

The rat slut Harry can do whatever he wants. He’s assurred two generations of hatred for the rat party. This is the beginning of the end for the traitors. It will not end well for these seditionists. Harry will die broke, alone and unloved in a gutter. His family will end up under a bridge living in a cardboard box.

[politicket]

Andrei Sakharov was named “Hero of Socialist Labor” three times (1953, 1956, and 1962).

Mr. Sakharov was a winner of the “Order of Lenin”, the “Stalin Prize”, and the “Lenin Prize”.

Maybe Senator Reid could have found a man to quote that more ably spoke truth!

How about somebody like Patrick Henry?

“The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.”

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.”

And finally…

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.