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Secretary of State Colin Powell made an eloquent point about America's desire for "empire building" to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Monica Lewinsky said the Democrats "left a bad taste in her mouth."
Monica Lewinsky said has learned "not to put things in her mouth that are bad for" her.
List documents "racist quotes" from radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Former President George Bush wrote that trying to eliminate Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War in 1991 would have "incurred incalculable human and political costs."
Law professor demonstrates that the results of the 2000 presidential election correspond to an 18th century historian's prediction of conditions accompanying the downfall of democracy.
Pensacola City Councilman T. Bubba Bechtol issues comment on Iraqi prisoner abuse.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh's 3 November 1988 broadcast included a statement approving the selling of chemical warfare agents to Saddam Hussein and the gassing of drug addicts.
H. L. Mencken once wrote that eventually "the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Senate candidate John Glenn delivered a stinging rebuke to a challenger who accused him of never having held a job.
President Eisenhower once noted that "a few Texas oil millionaires" wanted to "abolish social security."
Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair delivered a stirring, pro-American editorial in 1973.
Former first lady Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Former first lady Barbara Bush said that New Orleans refugees were "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
Constitutional law professor quips on the difference between the Bible and the Constitution.
E-mail reproduces Theodore Roosevelt's words regarding the assimilation of immigrants into American culture.
E-mail reproduces quotes from various Hispanic leaders.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in and how many want out."
An 1863 statement by Robert E. Lee expressed disdain for newspaper criticism of his military leadership skills.
Senator John McCain once said that "the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it."
Excerpt reproduces a portion of a commencement address delivered by newsman Ted Koppel.
In praising the actions of the USS Lake Erie, author Homer Hickam fretted that the Democratic candidates might scrap military programs and begin baking cookies for the enemy.
Norman Thomas once said the Democratic Party had adopted the Socialist Party's platform.
Passage from Karl Marx's Das Kapital about consumer debt foretells that current economic turmoil will lead to communism.
Margaret Thatcher once said that "The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Judge Sonia Sotomayor said that "the time has come to end white male oppression by castrating every white male."
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