Marijuana quotes from Politicians and others you might know

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"420 day" or the "National Weed Day"

In recognition of "420 day" or the "National Weed Day" for the kids in California that would always meet at 4:20pm to smoke weed...Here are a list of quotes that Presidents or Presidential hopefuls as well as other government entities and celebrities have said about marijuana. These quotes range from the effects of marijuana, legalization of marijuana, and some marijuana facts.

1. "I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast"
   ~Ronald Reagan
   
2. "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again."
   ~Bill Clinton
   
3. "I smoked pot in college and in the Army..."
   ~Al Gore
   
4. "So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them."{to George Bush about medical marijuana}
   ~Bill Richardson
   
5. "When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
   ~Barack Obama
   
   
6. "I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana"
   ~Ron Paul
   
7. "Pot is not a drug"
   ~Arnold Schwarzenegger - Governor of California
   
8. "You bet I did and I enjoyed it." {on whether he has smoked marijuana}
   ~Michael Bloomberg - New York City Mayor
   
9. "I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."
   ~Stephen King
   
10. "If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education"
    ~Thomas Jefferson
    
11. "When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
    ~Harry S. Truman - Former U.S. President
    
12. "I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it"
    ~Jennifer Aniston
    
13. "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
    ~Biblical - Genesis 1:29
    
14. "Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton."
    ~Jay Leno
    
15. "Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere."
    ~George Washington
    
16. "The drug is really quite a remarkably safe one for humans, although it is really quite a dangerous one for mice and they should not use it."
    ~J.W.D Henderson Director of the Bureau of Human Drugs, Health and Welfare, Canada
    
17. "The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
    ~Albert Einstein "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921
    
18. "Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background." "Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use." ; "State laws should make the public use of marijuana a criminal offense punishable by a $100 fine. Under federal law, marijuana smoked in public would merely be subject to seizure."
    ~President Richard M. Nixon's National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding" March 1972
    
19. "Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
    ~Dan Quayle U.S. Representative and Vice president under President Bush March 1977
    
20. "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marihuana."
    ~Jimmy Carter U.S. President Message to congress 1977
    
21. "The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana [1 ounce = 28g] in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy."
    ~William F. Buckley "Legalization of Marijuana Long Overdue" Albuquerque Journal June 8, 1993
    
22. "The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
    ~Thomas Jefferson
    
23. "In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
    ~Martin Luther King Jr.
    
24. "How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."
    ~HARRY J ANSLINGER Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962
    
25. "...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
    ~Harry J. Anslinger
    
26. "Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
    ~Harry J. Anslinger
    
27. "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
    ~Harry J. Anslinger
    
28. "You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
    ~Harry J. Anslinger
    
29. "There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
    ~Harry Anslinger, 1937 testimony to Congress in support of the Marijuana Tax Act.
    
30. ~If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
    ~Thomas Jefferson
    
31. "I presume, like the rest of us in the country, you are in the habit of household manufacture, and that you will not, like too many, abandon it on the return of peace, to enrich our late enemy, and to nourish foreign agents in our bosom, whose baneful influence & intrigues cost us so much embarrassment & dissension. the shirting for our laborers has been an object of some difficulty. flax is so injurious to our lands, and of so scanty produce, that I have never attempted it. hemp, on the other hand, is abundantly productive and will grow for ever on the same spot, but the breaking and beating of it, which has always been done by hand, is so slow, and so laborious, and so much complained of by our laborers, that I have given it up, and purchased & manufactured cotton for their shirting, the advance price of this however now makes it a serious item of expence; and in the mean time a method of removing the difficulty of preparing hemp occurred to me, so simple & so cheap, that I return to its culture and manufacture.
    
    To a person having a threshing machine, the addition of a hemp break will not cost more than 12. or 15. D. you know that the first mover in that machine is a horizontal horsewheel with cogs on it's upper face. on these is placed a wallower and shaft which give motion to the threshing apparatus. on the opposite side of this same wheel I place another wallower and shaft, thro' which, and near it's outer end, I pass a cross-arm of sufficient strength, projecting on each side 15. I. in this form, nearly under the cross arm is placed a very strong hemp-break, much stronger & heavier than those for the hand, it's head block particularly is massive, and 4. f. high, and near it's upper end, in front, is fixed a strong pin (which we may call it's horn). by this time the cross arm lifts & lets fall the break with hemp stalks, and a little person holds under the head block a large twist of tobacco but larger, where it is more perfectly beaten than I have ever seen done by hand. if the horse wheel has 144. cogs, the wallower 11. rounds, and the horse goes 3 times round in a minute, it will give about 80. strokes in a minute.
    
    I had fixed a break to be moved by the gate of my sawmill, which broke & beat at the rate of 200. lb. a day. but the inconveniences of interrupting that induced me to try the power of a horse, and I have found it answer perfectly, the power being less, so also probably will be the effect, of which I cannot make a fair trial until I commence on the new crop. I expect that a single horse will do the breaking & beating of 10 men. something of this kind has been so long wanted by the cultivators of hemp , that as soon as I can speak of it's effect with certainty, I shall probably describe it anonymously in the public papers, in order to forestall the prevention of it's use by some interloping patentee."
    ~Thomas Jefferson, Letters, December 29, 1815 (To George Fleming)
    
32. "They forbid marriage and inculcate abstinence from certain foods, though God created them to be enjoyed with thanksgiving by believers who have inward knowledge of the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected when it is taken with thanksgiving."
    ~1 Timothy 4:3-4
    
33. "Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to you in sheep's covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those [men]."
    ~Matthew 7:15-20
    
34. ''We did not view marijuana as a significant health problem--as it was not....Nobody dies from marijuana. Marijuana smoking, in fact, if one wants to be honest, is a source of pleasure and amusement to countless millions of people in America, and it continues to be that way.''
    ~Peter Bourne, President Carter's Drug Czar {Source: PBS's Frontline: ''Drug Wars,'' October 2000}
    
35. "The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. ... ...moderate use of hemp... appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind,... no injurious effects on the mind... [and] no moral injury whatever."
    ~Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894
    

36. "Having reviewed all the material available to us we find ourselves in agreement with the conclusion reached by the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission appointed by the Government of India (1893-94) and the New York Mayor's Committee (1944 - LaGuardia)that the long-term consumption of cannabis in moderate doses has no harmful effects" "the long-asserted dangers of cannabis are exaggerated and that the related law is socially damaging, if not unworkable"
    ~1968 UK ROYAL COMMISSION, THE WOOTTON REPORT
    
37. "Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death."
    ~Testimony of Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., October 1, 1997
    
38. "Marijuana is beneficial to many patients"
    ~Jocelyn Elders, USA Surgeon General
    
39. "The major health and psychological effects of chronic cannabis use, especially daily use over many years, remain uncertain"
    ~The Report of the Australian Government 1996
    
40. "There are no long lasting ill-effects from the acute use of marijuana and no fatalities have ever been recorded ... there seems to be growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marijuana does not directly cause criminal behaviour, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addiction."
    ~Dr J. H. Jaffe, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965
    
41. "... as a multipurpose plant, ganga is used medicinally, even by non-smokers. ....There were no indications of organic brain damage or chromosome damage among smokers and no significant clinical psychiatric, psychological or medical) differences between smokers and controls."
    ~US Jamaican Study 1974
    
42. The U.S. federal government has failed to make public its own 1994 study that undercuts its position that marijuana is carcinogenic - a $2 million study by the National Toxicology Program. The program's deputy director, John Bucher, says the study "found absolutely no evidence of cancer." In fact, animals that received THC had fewer cancers. Bucher denies his agency had been pressured to shelve the report, saying the delay in making it public was due to a personnel shortage.
    
    The Boston Globe reported Thursday (1-30-97) that the study indicates not only that the main ingredient in marijuana, THC, does not cause cancer, but also that it may even protect against malignancies, laboratory tests on animals show.
    
    The report comes on the heels of an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that favors the controlled medical use of marijuana, and calls current federal policy "misguided, heavy-handed and inhumane."
    
    The Clinton administration has said that doctors prescribing marijuana could be prosecuted for a federal crime.
    
    Marijuana has been reported to ease the pain, nausea and vomiting in advanced stages of cancer, AIDS and other serious illnesses, but the federal government claims other treatments have been deemed safer than what it calls "a psychoactive, burning carcinogen."
    
    However, The Boston Globe says the government's claim appears to be undercut by its own $2 million study.
    ~BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1997 (UPI)
    
43. "Users in our matched-pair sample smoked marijuana in addition to as many tobacco cigarettes as did their matched non-using pairs. Yet their small airways were, if anything, a bit healthier than their matches. We must tentatively conclude either that marijuana has no harmful effect on such passages or that it actually offers some slight protection against harmful effects of tobacco smoke"
    ~Cannabis in Costa Rica: A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use; Institute of Human Issues
    
44. "The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"
    ~The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
    
45. "Most marijuana users do not go on to use other drugs."
    ~"Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10.
    
46. "Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social "high" and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects"
    ~Crancer Study, Washington Department of Motor Vehicles
    
47. "THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small"
    ~U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT HS 808 078), Final Report, November 1993
    
48. "Compared to alcohol, which makers people take more risks on the road, marijuana made drivers slow down and drive more carefully.... Cannabis is good for driving skills, as people tend to overcompensate for a perceived impairment."
    ~Professor Olaf Drummer, a forensic scientist the Royal College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1996
    
49. "Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"
    ~The Economist March 28th 1992
    
50. "I'm quite impressed by what's happened to (MS) patients who have used it"
    ~Dr. James Malone-Lee, consultant St. Pancras Hospital, London
    
51. "Measurements and main results. Exposed and nonexposed neonates were compared at 3 days and 1 month old, using the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale, including supplementary items to capture possible subtle effects. There were no significant differences between exposed and nonexposed neonates on day 3. At 1 month, the exposed neonates showed better physiological stability and required less examiner facilitation to reach organized states. The neonates of heavy- marijuana-using mothers had better scores on autonomic stability, quality of alertness, irritability, and self-regulation and were judged to be more rewarding for caregivers."
    ~Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study Melanie C. Dreher, PhD; Kevin Nugent, PhD; and Rebekah Hudgins, MA
    
52. "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself"
    ~President Jimmy Carter
    
53. "Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting"
    ~Judge James Pickles, UK
    
54. "Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans' appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our Government was founded"
    ~President Abraham Lincoln (December 1840)
    
55. ''From the Colombian point of view legalization is the easy solution. I mean, just legalize it and we won't have any more problems. Probably in five years we wouldn't even have guerrillas. No problems. We would have a great country with no problems.''
    ~Jaime Ruiz, Senior Adviser to the Colombian President {Source: Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 2000}
    
56. ''I say legalize drugs because I want to see less drug abuse, not more. And I say legalize drugs because I want to see the criminals put out of business.''
    ~Edward Ellison, former Head of Scotland Yard's Antidrug Squad {Source: London's Daily Mail, March 10, 1998}
    
57. "I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed"
    ~Judge Pamela Alexander at the DPF Conference, November 1996
    
58. "I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable"
    ~Alexander Shulgin, PhD, Chemist and author, at the DPF Conference, November 1996
59. "I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal."
    ~Sir Paul McCartney, Independent on Sunday, 28th September 1997
    
60. "It is certainly no longer true to say if it ever was, that smoking cannabis is a sign of affiliation to an "alternative" lifestyle. Clearly, in the light of its popularity and to a degree its apparent social acceptability questions are raised about the legalisation of cannabis"
    ~The Misuse of Drugs, Office of Health Economics
    
61. From: Outside View: Let science decide about pot
    By Paul Armentano (NORML)
    
    Currently more than 30 percent of the U.S. population lives in a place where some type of marijuana decriminalization is the law. According to the federal government, this policy "has had virtually no effect on either the marijuana use or on the related attitudes and beliefs about marijuana use among young people."
    
    Since the 1970s, more than a dozen government-appointed committees -- in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia as well as in other countries -- have issued recommendations regarding marijuana policy. These include the Shafer Commission, appointed by former President Richard Nixon, Canada's Le Dain Commission, and Britain's Wooten Report, all of which concluded that marijuana prohibition causes far more social damage than marijuana use, and the possession of marijuana for personal use should no longer be a criminal offense.
    
    The passage of time has done little to sway the minds of these nonpartisan experts. Consider the conclusions of the Wooten Report, originally issued in 1968: "In considering the scale of penalties, our main aim, having regard to our view of the known effects of cannabis, is to remove for practical purposes, the prospect of imprisonment for possession of a small amount and to demonstrate that taking the drug in moderation is a relatively minor offense."
    
    Parallel those findings with the recent recommendations of the conservative British Police Foundation, which in a 2001 report concluded: "The law's implementation damages individuals in terms of criminal records and risks to jobs and relationships to a degree that far outweighs any harm that cannabis may be doing to a society. Prison should no longer be a penalty for possession." The millennium may be different, but their analysis remains the same.
    
    Scientific inquiries on this side of the Atlantic have yielded equally consistent results. In 1972, Nixon's handpicked Shafer Commission recommended Congress remove criminal penalties for the possession of marijuana for personal use as well as on the "casual distribution of small amounts of marijuana."
    
    Ten years later, researchers at the U.S. National Research Council, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, reaffirmed that prohibition was ineffective and should be "seriously reconsidered." Most recently, a special Canadian House of Lords committee concluded, "The consequences of conviction for possession of a small amount of cannabis for personal use are disproportionate to the potential harm associated with that behavior."
    ~Source THC
    
62. "It really puzzles me to see Marijuana connected with Narcotics - Dope and all that crap…it's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an Assistant - a friend."
    ~Louis Armstrong
    
63. "Make the most of the help India hemp seed, sow it everywhere!"
    ~George Washington
    
64. "We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
    ~John Adams
    
65. "The greatest service which can be rendered any country is the add a useful plant to its culture!"
    ~Thomas Jefferson
    
66. One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does.
    
    Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night.
    Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people.
    Marijuana does not suppress medical research.
    Marijuana does not peek in bedroom windows.
    
    Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
    ~Richard Cowan, Former head of NORML, Now editor of http://www.marijuananews.com/
    
67. "Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."
    ~DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young. Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22], (September 6, 1988), p. 57.
    
68. "I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals," Frank said in a statement, adding that it's "not appropriate in a free society."
    ~Rep. Barney Frank

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Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address 1/20/09

President Barack Obama's inaugural address 1/20/09

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Tuesday, as delivered in front of millions on January 20, 2009

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My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh.

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers ... our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)."

America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

~President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.


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The Power of One Voice...

I guess a few people have been receiving these shirts from Barack Obama for contributions that they made on his run to the White House...

Slogan on the front says: "One voice can change the world...


Slogan on the back says:

The Power of One Voice

If one voice change a room

Then it can change a City

If once voice can change a City

Then it can change a State

If it can change a State

Then it can change a Nation

If it can change a Nation

Then it can change the World

Barack

Obama

2008




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More Barack Obama Quotes as he talks to the western states

Here are some nice Barack Obama Quotes that he made while campaigning in Montana.

Barack Obama quotes

1. "There are people saying Obama wins all these little states, all these caucus states, these small little Western states. I don't know about you, but I think they're pretty important," ~Barack Obama
   
2. "I know Montana's a coal state. My home state, Illinois, is a coal state, but we've got to make sure that we are investing in technologies that capture carbon because we can't sustain the planet the way that we're doing it right now," ~Barack Obama
   
3. "Look at this incredible landscape around you. We've got to pass that on." ~Barack Obama
   
4. "Here's the thing, Missoula — I just like saying Missoula, by the way. It's a good name. Missoula. A lot of vowels,"~Barack Obama {talking about learning to fly fish}
   

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Abraham Lincoln quote on fools

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
~Abraham Lincoln

Happy April Fools Day!!!

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3 quotes from Chelsea Clinton, the former first child.

Quotes made famous by the former first child...Chelsea Clinton...

Interesting fact about Chelsea, she was nominated by the SF Chronicle for having the best pet in the White House...

Best pet: Chelsea Clinton's cat, Socks. Socks was the first White House cat since Amy Carter's Misty Malarky Ying Yang and became a celebrity. After leaving office, Socks served as grand marshal of the Little Rock, Ark., Christmas parade. Seriously. They say the Movie "Chasing Liberty" was inspired after the writers saw a picture of Chelsea at a Stanford basketball game.

Chelsea Clinton said...

1. I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
   
   
2. We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
   
   
3. "Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business," {when asked by a student, Evan Strange, at Butler University on whether her mothers credibilty was weakened by the Monica Lewinsky scandal}

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8 Quotes from Belva Ann Lockwood that will make you fall in love with her.

Here are some quotes from Belva Ann Lockwood (10/24/1830-1912), who was America's first female attorney, she began her career after being a school teacher for a number of years after graduating from Genesee College in Lima, NY, which later became a part of Syracuse University.

After her first husband died, she became fascinated with politics and moved to Washington D.C. where she went to Law School, which we now know as The George Washington University Law School. Atty. Lockwood was the second woman to ever run for President of the United States(the first was Victoria Woodhull) but the first to have her name appear on the ballot in 1884 and 1888.

A few years before that, even though she had earned her law degree she was not allowed to practice law, so she lobbied Congress from 1874-1879. In 1879, the bill was passed that any woman qualified could practice in any federal court and 1880 she became the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. In the U.S. there are three cities names after her, Belva, West Virginia, Lockwood, California and Lockwood, West Virginia, many little girls, Navy war ships and appeared on a U.S. postage stamp in 1986.

She also penned a book ""How I Ran for the Presidency".

Belva Ann Lockwood said...

1. The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”
   
   
2. “No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”
   
   
3. “I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
   
   
4. “I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”
   
   
5. “If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”
   
   
6. "...for no other purpose than to see what was being done at this great political centre -- this seething pot-- to learn something of the practical workings of the machinery of government, and to see what the great men and women of the country felt and thought."{on why Belva headed to Washington D.C.}
   
   
7. "Even if women in the United States are not permitted to vote, there is no law against their being voted for and, if elected, filling the highest office … Why not nominate women for important places?… The Republican Party… has little but insult for women when they appear before its conventions. It is time we had our own party, our own platform and our own nominees."
   
   
8. "We cannot stop fighting until such legislation is passed, no matter what ridicule and humiliation we suffer doing so."
   

Further Reading

Fox, Mary Virginia, Lady for the Defense: A Biography of Belva Lockwood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

Kerr, Laura, The Girl Who Ran for President, Thomas Nelson, 1947.

American History Illustrated, March 1985.

Ms., July/August 1998.

Sky & Telescope, May 1995.

Smithsonian, March 1981.

Stamps, June 23, 1984; June 7, 1986; July 5, 1986.

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Afternoon Quote of the Day: Wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt

Todays Afternoon Famous Quote of the Day is Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States, she was also a Columnist and Lecturer...


Eleanor Roosevelt had this Golden Nugget for us...

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist and Lecturer

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Quotes made Famous by Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Here are some Quotes that were made Famous by Barack Obama's controversial Preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Some of Wright’s statements have raised eyebrows at a time the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing tax-exempt religious organizations for alleged violations of rules barring them from participating in political campaigns.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright said...

• ”The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.”
  
  
• “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
  
  
• “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” {He said this five days after the September 11th attacks on 9-16-01}
  
  
• “The government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were going to attack. Government’s lied.”
  
  
• “We’ve got a paranoid group of patriots in power that now, in the interest of homeland stupidity – I mean homeland security …”
  
  
• “The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment. They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis …” {I think he was a little mistaken here, not injected but not giving treatment as they said they would do}
  
  
• “Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity.”
  
  
• “… what’s going on in white America, U.S. of KKKA …”
  
  
• “Black men turning on black men – that is fighting the wrong enemy. You both are the primary targets in an oppressive society that sees both of you as a dangerous threat.”
  
  
• “We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qaida is doing under a different color flag … And guess what else. If they don’t find them some weapons of mass destruction, they going to do just like the LAPD and plant them some weapons of mass destruction.”
  
  
• “God damn America – that’s in the Bible – for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating us citizens as less than human. God damn America …”
  
  

• "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." {in a 2003 sermon}
  
  
• "Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger." {December 2007 sermon}
  
  
• “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” {Sep 2001}
  
  
• “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” {said in a magazine}
  
  
• “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.” {another sermon speech}
  
  
• “Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.” {another sermon}
  
  
• “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
  
  
• “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
  
  
• “There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” {said in 1/13/08 sermon}
  

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16 Top Quotes made famous by John McCain

Here are some quotes made famous by the Republican Presidential Hopeful John McCain, the Senator from Arizona...I think you will find these very insightful whether you are a Democrat or Republican.

John McCain said...

1. But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. ~John McCain
   
   
2. I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. ~John McCain
   
   
3. I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. ~John McCain
   
   
4. I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. ~John McCain
   
   
5. I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. ~John McCain
   
   
6. Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. ~John McCain
   
   
7. Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ~John McCain
   
   
8. Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. ~John McCain
   
   
9. Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. ~John McCain
   
   
10. The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ~John McCain
    
    
11. The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. ~John McCain
    
    
12. We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. ~John McCain
    
    
13. Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. ~John McCain
    
    
14. Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns. ~John McCain
    
    
15. We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and they said they had never seen this... ~John McCain
    
    
16. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."{this was suppose to be a joke btw... he also apoligized the Clinton's for the funny, just for the record... speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.}
    
    

I hope you enjoyed and got a snapshot of who John McCain is as a person...they say words make a difference.

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Top 41 Barack Obama quotes ...picked by me.

These are my favorite quotes by Barack Obama in no particular order.






1. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

2. I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

3. Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

4. There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

5. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

6. Americans ... still believe in an America where anything's possible -- they just don't think their leaders do.

7. Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts

8. Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

9. If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

10. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

11. “Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he said in the statement. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” {on denouncing his preachers statements days before his big speech 3/14/08}

12. “a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, well there’s a reaction that’s in our experiences that won’t go away and can sometimes come out in the wrong way.” {obama said on a Philly sports radio station about his grandmother 3/23/08}

13. "If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," {in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.}

14. "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." {Barack told a group at a town hall in san francisco}

15. "political flare-up because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter," {Barack told a group at a town hall at Ball State University after his comments hit the national media}

16. "They are angry. They feel like they have been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they're going through. {see above}

17. "So I said, well you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on. So people, they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country."{see #15}

18. "The truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That's what sustains us. But what is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they are being listened to." {see #15}

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20. "This is something that I have not, I think, come to a firm resolution on. I think it's very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don't presume to know the answer to that question." {On abortion and life at conception}

21. "You know, if I'm acting in an ethical way, if I am working to make sure that I am applying what I consider to be a core value of Christianity, but also a core value of all great religions, and that is that I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper, then I will be doing my part to move his agenda forward." { On his personal faith}

22. "We are going to put in place a cap-and-trade system that controls the amount of greenhouse gases that are going into the atmosphere. ... We've got to be less wasteful, both as a society and in our own individual lives." {On the environment}

23. "We've got to shore up the mortgage market to make sure that we don't have millions of people who are losing their homes. We're going to have to, I think, change our tax code." {On poverty}

24. "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." {San Francisco Private fund-raising event 4/6/08}

25. "I may not be perfect but I will always tell you what I think, and I will always tell you where I stand,"{Barack told Wynnewood, Pa voters}

26. "She's taken different positions at different times on issues as fundamental as trade, or even the war, to suit the politics of the moment. And when she gets caught at it, the notion is, well, you know what, that's just politics. That's how it works in Washington. You can say one thing here and say another thing there."

27. "Senator Clinton's essential argument in this campaign is you can't change how the game is played in Washington. Her basic argument is that the slash-and-burn, say-anything, do-anything special interest-driven politics is how it works.... Senator Clinton has internalized a lot of the strategies, the tactics, that have made Washington such a miserable place."

28. "She's got the kitchen sink flying and the china flying, the buffet is coming at me ... constant distractions, these petty, trivial, slash and burn, back and forth, tit for tat, politics." {barack told voters in Downington, Pa} ..but really isn't this what he is doing?

29. "What's she not telling you about her health care plan?" the ad asks. "It forces everyone to buy insurance even if you can't afford it, and you pay a penalty if you don't." {on an ad that clinton is running in Pa...see her response to this quote}-->"Instead of attacking the problem, he chooses to attack my solution," {per hillary clinton}

30. "You've always got to measure if somebody throws an elbow at you, and after three or four times of gettin' elbows in the ribs, you know, at what point do you sort of say, 'OK, you know, we, we, we've gotta put a stop to that'?"{he told ABC News' Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" his attacks are necessary, being careful not to change his repeated promise of a "new kind of politics." }

31. "To all the forces of division and distraction that has stopped us from making progress for the American people, I've got one question: Do you smell what Barack is cooking?" {Barack said on Monday night's WWE Raw, Hillary also had a message too}

32. "This is not a decision I come to lightly ... and it is one I make with some sadness," {after barack resigned from his church, trinity united church in chicago where he has been a member for over 30 years.}

33. "I'm not denouncing the church and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church," he said, adding that the new pastor at Trinity and "the church have been suffering from the attention my campaign has focused on them."

34. "I suspect we'll find another church home for our family," Obama said.

35. "It's clear that now that I'm a candidate for president, every time something is said in the church by anyone associated with Trinity, including guest pastors, the remarks will imputed to me even if they totally conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles,"

36. "I have no idea how it will impact my presidential campaign but I know it was the right thing to do for me and my family,"

37. "This was a pretty personal decision and I was not trying to make political theater out of it,"

38. "deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."

39. "This was one I didn't see coming," Obama said Saturday when he asked if he had anticipated the firestorm that would erupt over his relationship with Wright. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_el_pr/obama

40. "These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11," the presumed nominee told reporters aboard his campaign plane. "This is the same kind of fear-mongering that got us into Iraq ... and it's exactly that failed foreign policy I want to reverse."

41. "And, you know, let's take the example of Guantanamo," Obama said. "What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center — we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.



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Quotes made famous by Michelle Obama

Some friends and I was talking about about Michelle Obama and some of the things she has said...and I wanted to put a list together of quotes, the possible First Lady has said. ...if Barack is elected President of the United States.

Michelle Obama said...

1. Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.
   
2. To me it is now or never. (on Barack running for President)
   
3. What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first,” she told the Chicago Tribune in 2004. “And for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.
   
4. Barack will not be a perfect president, but he will always tell you the truth,” Mrs. Obama assures her audience in Londonderry. “You will always know where he stands.
   
5. I am tired of being afraid . . . I don't want my girls to live in a country that is based on fear. (speaking in Iowa)
   
6. if you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House.
   
   
7. “I’d have to think about that,” Mrs. Obama said on “Good Morning America” on ABC. “I’d have to think about — policies, her approach, her tone.” {when asked about picking Sen. Clinton as a running mate}
   
   
8. “I am trying to be as authentically me as I can be,” Mrs. Obama said in an interview. “My statements are coming from my experiences and my observations and my frustrations.”
   
   
9. “What I’ve learned is that my humor doesn’t translate to print all the time,” she said in the interview. “But usually when I’m speaking to a group, people understand what I’m trying to say, they get the humor, they understand the sarcasm, they get the joke.”
   
   
10. “What we have to understand in this race is that this is true regardless of the color of your skin, regardless of your gender,” she said to the mostly black audience. “This is the truth of living in America.”
    
    
11. “My parents told us time and time again, ‘Don’t tell us what you can’t do,’ ” she said. “ ‘And don’t worry about what can go wrong.’ ”
    
    
12. “I realized that gnawing sense of self doubt that lies within all of us is within our own heads,” she said in Atlanta. “The truth is we are more ready and more prepared than we even know. My own life is proof of that.”
    
    
13. "my experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be towards me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second." She further suggests that even if she assimilates into white society after Princeton, she will "remain on the periphery of society: never becoming a full participant."
    
    
14. "the injustices and oppressions suffered by this race of people which are not comparable to the experiences of any other race of people through this country's history,"
    
    
15. clearly disappointed—to find that as these alums entered the wider world, in which they overwhelmingly reported great upward social mobility, they ceased to identify primarily with the black community.
    

These are just a few quotes by Michelle Obama, as the Presidential Election is heating up...with Michelle in the First Ladies Seat, she is bound to keep Barack in line and focused.

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33 Top Quotes made Famous by Hillary Clinton

These of the some quotes made famous by Senator Hillary Clinton as she makes her run towards the White House and beyond.

1. All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
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2. I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





3. If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





4. In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





5. Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





6. One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





7. Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
   ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   





8. The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful. ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





9. Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
   
   





10. We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
    ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    





11. What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





12. You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





13. It took one Clinton to clean up the 1st Bush's mess and it going to take another Clinton to clean up the 2nd Bush's mess. ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





14. "That may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me." {when asked about the possibility of a Clinton/Obama ticket on 3/5/08} ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





15. “I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” {said back in 2000, when first elected to the US Senate} ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





16. "I do not see how two of our largest and most significant states can be disenfranchised and left out of the process of picking our nominee without raising serious questions about the legitimacy of that nominee."{when asked about the votes in Michigan and Florida}
    ~Hillary Clinton Quotes
    
    





17. Obama's comments were "elitist and out of touch." {Hillary told a group of factory workers in Indianapolis talking about Barack quotes on how americans are bitter}
    
    





18. "The people of faith I know don't 'cling' to religion because they're bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich,"{in referring to Barack quotes from the San Francisco town hall}
    
    





19. "I also disagree with Senator Obama's assertion that people in this country 'cling to guns' and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration," {see above}
    
    





20. "People don't need a president who looks down on them," she said. "They need a president who stands up for them." {see michelle Obama's quotes where she did that speech at the Georgia School}
    
    





21. "Because of the Bush administration's failed policies, we're not just outsourcing jobs, we're outsourcing our security," Clinton told workers at the Allison Transmission plant. "We cannot remain a strong, free and prosperous nation if we continue to outsource industries essential to our national defense.""Hillary Clinton speaking at a plant that makes parts for millitary vehicles}
    
    





22. "I have absolutely nothing against rich people," Hillary Clinton told North Dakota Democrats at their party convention Friday night in Grand Forks. "As a matter of fact, my husband — much to my surprise and his — has made a lot of money since he left the White House doing what he loves doing most, talking to people."{on talking about how much money they made since 2000}
    
    





23. "I believe that the potential for life begins at conception. But for me, it is also not only about a potential life, it is about the other lives involved. {On abortion and life at conception}
    
    





24. "And, therefore, I have concluded, after great ... concern and searching my own mind and heart over many years, that our task should be in this pluralistic, diverse life of ours in this nation that individuals must be entrusted to make this profound decision. Because the alternative would be such an intrusion of government authority that it would be very difficult to sustain in our kind of open society."
    
    





25. "You know, I have, ever since I've been a little girl, felt the presence of God in my life. And it has been a gift of grace that has, for me, been incredibly sustaining."{On her personal faith}
    
    





26. "When I think about the simple steps any one of us can take -- you know, turning off lights when one leaves a room, unplugging appliances, changing to compact florescent bulbs -- you know, my husband and I have done that...we feel like we're making a small contribution to limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions." {On the environment}
    
    





27. "In my Judeo-Christian faith tradition, in both the Old and the New Testament, the incredible demands that God places on us and that the prophets ask of us, and that Christ called us to respond to on behalf of the poor are unavoidable." {On poverty}
    
    





28. "The people of faith I know don't 'cling' to religion because they're bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich."
    "I also disagree with Senator Obama's assertion that people in this country 'cling to guns' and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration," {speaking to Indianapolis factory workers after Obama's quotes from San Fran hit the main stream media}
    
    





29. "I don't want to just show up and give one of those whoop-dee-do speeches and get everybody whipped up," she said. "I want everyone thinking." {to Pa voters}
    
    





30. "Instead of attacking the problem, he chooses to attack my solution," {Clinton told voters in York, Pa.}
    
    
31. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."{ABC News' Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons}
    
    
32. "He has consistently, and including in Pennsylvania, he has sent out mailers, he has run ads misrepresenting what I have proposed," "Why would Barack Obama vote for a Bush-Cheney energy bill?"
    
    
33. "This election is starting to feel a lot like 'king of the ring.'" Clinton said in the message. "The only difference? The last man standing may just be a woman." (Hillary said on Monday night's Raw...Barack also recorded a msg as well, Here)
    

~Hillary Clinton
Senator of New York and Presidential Hopeful

A WOMAN IN CHARGE

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