Some Left Quotes

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid,
it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more tothe abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
FDR

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why?
Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
Mike Royko
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
L.L. Giacomini
I support and promote local and national gun control laws and organizations.
If a guy can't hit a deer in one shot, he sure as Hell isn't much of hunter.
Barry Goldwater
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
The gov't of the US is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
George Washington
Don't tell me you're a Christian. Let me figure it out.
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Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.
Robert Ingersoll
"Malice toward none, charity for all."
The Republican Party has come a long way from that comment by its first President (Abe Lincoln) to its callous malice of today.

I suppose I can understand the callous selfish disregard of the conservatives.
It is their pride in it that passes me by.
Rack Jite    Conservatively Incorrect

The more they talk, the more being called a Liberal sounds like a compliment.
Douglas Giles
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
Adlai Stevenson

Republicans portray the government as the enemy. Then when they take over, they prove it.
Dsduryea
Mr. Nixon in the last seven days has called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican, but he says that is getting low.
JFK

The Republican National Committee has announced that it is changing the Republican emblem from an elephant to a condom because it more clearly reflects the party's political stance : A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives one a sense of security while screwing others.


Due to a small but significant clause in the U.S. Constitution, I will be out of office from January 21, 2001 until January 20, 2005.
message Al Gore left on the machine at the VP's residence

We did a lot of good. We did a lot of good.

There's a risk that Democrats who are not sharing the anger and dismay could find themselves disaffected from big pieces of the base of the party. But if the base of the party is angry with Republicans and working day and night to vindicate through the midterm elections what was taken away from them in the election last year, that could be good for the Democrats.
John Podesta

They can't let go. I'm sure they'll investigate Bill Clinton's grandchildren.
Tom Daschle
With less than 30 days in 'office' he has had 27 workouts, 27 naps, numerous photo-ops, but NO White House press conferences. Could he be reinventing the game of Duck & Cover?
Jenny Backus, Democratic Press Secretary
You look at other presidential libraries, they are filled with things that those Presidents got during their, their years at the White House. And yet somehow it's become a high crime for Bill Clinton to take some of these things with him to put in his presidential library.
Katie Couric
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans -- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
Clinton pardons has been so biased, overblown and vituperative as to call into question the very purpose of what currently passes as journalism. It is difficult to recall a more partisan, one-sided hatchet job.

With the Senate hanging on one vote, this administration acts as if it has only limited time to do as much damage as possible to the environment, consumers, the non-rich and common sense.
Robert Scheer

They are ugly people, and they behave in ugly ways.
Mario Cuomo
Talk about Republican pardons. George Bush protected himself by pardoning those linked to him in the Iran-Contra scandal. He pardoned a heroin drug trafficker and a terrorist who was responsible for 73 deaths. Clinton's pardons had no impact on the health and welfare of the American people.

You don't have to be ruthless like the republicans, but be strong.
Barbra Streisand

By simultaneously destabilizing global security in China, Korea, the Middle East and Russia, by recklessly abrogating the Kyoto climate change treaty, by bullying his allies in Europe and Asia, by pursuing a tax policy that will turn America into the most unequal society in modern history, George W. Bush is fully living up to my expectation that he would become the worst U.S. President since Herbert Hoover.
Anatole Kaletsky, London Times
I am a Democrat because I know Democrats put the people first, and the country is a better place when a Democrat is in office.
Lottie Shackelford, DNC Vice Chair
I don't know if anything improper happened in Mr. Rove's meeting, but I do know this is exactly the type of situation that you would have investigated had it occurred in the Clinton Administration.
Henry Waxman to Dan Burton

MORE  QUOTES

"We risk our lives to form this great nation and
you wanna let George W. Bush run it !"
What would the Founding Fathers say if they were alive today
Dave's top10

Conservative Dictionary

"Any effort by Ms.Harris to stop the hand counting before it is completed would be preemptory and purely partisan."
NYT Editorial, 11/15/00

Although we may never know with complete certainty the winner of this year's election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear :
It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as the impartial guardian of the rule of law"
Justice John Paul Stevens

"When the cops join the robbers, we have a problem.
When the courts help the robbers, we have a crisis.
When our highest court becomes complicit in the robbery, we have a disaster."
Alan M. Dershowitz

Right-wing voters can be divided into two groups - the self-interested and the stupid.
In true Venn diagram style, George W. Bush seems to fall into both.

"Bush was reported safe in his residence, exercising, at the time. Dick Cheney was working in his office."
Just in case you needed any more proof as to who is really running the country.