Harry Reid, U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Nevada, Democrat

“May the 37 percent see the pain and suffering I have seen at Walter Reed,” referring to a poll showing 56% of Americans backed the Democrats plan to withdraw from Iraq, compared to a still sizable 37% who side with President Bush.

Christopher Dodd, U.S. Senator, Connecticut, Democrat

"I think the public is so far ahead of us — certainly the Democrats are — on this issue,” referring to a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

The 10 Craziest Things Rev. Jerry Falwell Ever Said

Ed Rollins, GOP strategist

"The country doesn't believe George W. Bush, it doesn't trust him, and with 19 months to go it's only going to get worse. There is nothing the president can do to get his (poll) numbers back up."

Senator Larry Craig, Idaho Republican

“There are several gun control advocates who have behind their name today, r-e-t, retired. Some of it was voluntary. Some of it was involuntary.” on political realities facing new Democrats in Congress who are not calling for stricter gun control laws after the Virginia Tech mass murders

Donald Trump on the GOP leadership

President Bush is "probably the worst president in the history of the United States."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is "a lovely woman but she never makes a deal--she doesn't make deals, she waves. She gets off the plane, she sits down with some dictator--45-degree angle, they do the camera shot. She waves again, she gets back on the plane, she waves--no deal ever happens."

Things Found Only in America

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Roger Ailes, FOX News Channel President

"It's true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true that President Bush called Musharraf and said 'Why can't we catch this guy?"'

Karen Finney, Democratic National Committee spokeswoman

"Senator McCain should apologize immediately for his callous comments,. How is it that John McCain now believes American lives are being wasted, yet he so stubbornly supports the president's plan to escalate the war in Iraq and put more American lives in harms way?"

John McCain, U.S. Senator & Republican Presidential Candidate

"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives." as he announces on "The Late Show with David Letterman" he's running for President again.

George Bush, U.S. President

"Sometimes you're the commander-in-chief, sometimes you're the educator-in-chief, and a lot of times you're both when it comes to war" explaining why he keeps having to explain the escalation of 21,000 American troops in Iraq.

George Bush, U.S. President

 
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country. "

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one         word is 'to be prepared'. "

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

"The future will be better tomorrow.

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. "

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

" We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe We are a part of Europe."

"Public speaking is very easy."

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."                     

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. "

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

" Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

" It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. "

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."

Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt

“No one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed. They turned him into a martyr.”

 Jim Webb, US Senate candidate from Virginia

"The votes are in and we won" at 1:05am on election night as 99% of precincts reporting show Webb with a 2,726 vote lead over GOP incumbent George Allen.

 Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report

"For Republicans, he's like an ATM machine Otherwise, they want to stay away from him." 

Referring to President Bush's record-setting fundraiser of $182 million for Republican candidates and organization.

Pedro Roig, the director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting

"We consider them to be good journalists, and people who were formed inside that system who got out (of Cuba) and adapted and made good. In reality, I feel very satisfied." after 10 South Florida journalists, including three with The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, received thousands of dollars from the federal government for their work on radio and TV programming aimed at undermining Fidel Castro's communist regime.

George Riggs, MediaNews Group, which owns 11 Bay Area dailies and dozens of daily, weekly and specialty publications

"It's just hard to look at the newspaper business and be a real optimist. We are going to have to become super, super efficient on the cost side. We're going to have to become the Wal-Mart of information purveyors. None of us wants to hear that, but that's a harsh reality."

Dan Rather, anchor of new HDNet news program

“Yes, I have baggage. I have baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school out of the University of South Vietnam! I have baggage from the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham. I have baggage from Watergate, and covering — as the White House and lead correspondent for CBS News — the only president in history who resigned. I have baggage from Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded it. I have baggage from two on-sea interviews with Saddam Hussein. You bet your life I’ve got a lot of baggage. And make no mistake, I’m proud of it.”

Peter Hoekstra, (R) Michigan Representative

"The U.S. Congress simply should not have to play Twenty Questions to get the information that it deserves under our Constitution." on allegations the Bush Administration is conducting more illegal surveillance activities beyond what the public knows of the domestic eavesdropping and banking transactions programs.

Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor

"Although they (illegal immigrants) broke the law by illegally crossing our borders ... our city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported. The same holds true for the nation."

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NY Times publisher

"We put it out on the web, I’m gonna say roughly around 9, 9 pm a couple nights ago. The Wall Street Journal matched us at 10, the Los Angeles Times matched us at 11. So, you know, a scoop is a scoop for about a nanosecond now– but it's a scoop." on the NY Times story on the Bush Administration's use of a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing.

Chet Edwards, U.S. Representative, Democrat, Waco

``If the sun seems a little brighter today; if our step seems a little bouncier; if life seems a little better today, there's a good reason for it. For the first day in 22 years, Tom DeLay is not a member of Congress.''

George Galloway, member of Britain's Parliament

 

Eric Boehlert, Author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush

Lawyer

"Your typical white-collar defendant has a better chance of winning a Golden Globe award than getting his conviction reversed in the Fifth Circuit."

Al Gore

"I'm not planning to run. There are other ways to serve."

Donna Brazile, former Gore campaign manager

"What Al Gore is doing now is living the life he always wanted to lead. He's a leading intellectual. He's talking about global warming. He's a venturecrat. He's leading the life I think a person like Al Gore would want to lead."

Doctor Eugenio Selman-Housein, who heads Castro's medical team, denied that the longtime leader has Parkinson's disease, as the CIA reportedly believes.

"Every day they invent a new one. He will live 140 years."

Les Moonves, CBS

“The residue of the past is gone.” (after the CBS Evening News beat ABC last week in the ratings to finish second, behind NBC, for the first time since 2001.)

Karl Rove White House Deputy Chief of Staff at the American Enterprise Institute

 "I am so completely off message on a day that we're talking about immigration, I don't know if they'll let me back into the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

Hillary Rodham Clinton

"I said, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to convey the impression that you don't work hard. I just want to set the bar high, because we are in a competition for the future." (as Clinton apologized to her daughter after telling an audience that young people today "think work is a four letter word.")

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

Victoria Striegel, Bride

"If you had seen the, excuse me, crap we shipped there. "I'm just livid. It was literally 88-cent items from Wal-Mart."(after FedEx charges $1200 to ship items like chapstick and key chains from Illinois to Mexico for wedding gift baskets).

Tony Snow, White House press secretary 

 "This is just a mess," acknowledging he wasn't prepared for reporter's questions on his first day on the job.

James Frey

"To call this book pure nonfiction would be inaccurate. It is a combination of fact and fiction, real and imagined events."  (being upront about his next book "My Friend Leonard".)

"It's our government, our government! It's not one party's government, it's America's government!" (as he blasted  President Bush and the NSA for  expanding their domestic eavesdropping program to collect data of millions of phone calls made by ordinary Americans.)

Kathleen O'Toole,  Boston Police Commissioner

"I don't envy the mayor and I don't envy my successor." (as she announces she will step down to help oversee the national police in Ireland, ending a tumultuous tenure and leaving the post at a time of tight city finances, escalating violence, and calls from community leaders for more police presence.)

Zacarias Moussaoui

 "I had thought that I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11, but after reviewing the jury verdict and reading how the jurors set aside their emotions and disgust for me and focused on the law and the evidence that was presented during the trial, I came to understand that the jury process was more complex than I had assumed."  (now says he lied about his involvement in 9/11 as he tried to withdraw his guilty plea).

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, California Governor

"I think that all of this comes down to one thing: The federal government has failed the people of America in a terrible way, in a disastrous way, when it comes to this immigration situation."

THOMAS REILLY, Massachusetts Attorney General

''I think we've just scratched the surface. I'm not confident that everybody else followed all the specifications and all the rules." (following indictments involving tainted concrete used in Boston's Big Dig project).

STEVIE WONDER

"I see a bright future for her." (on former American Idol singer Paris Bennett).

JIM PENSIERO, Wall Street Journal

"I won’t deny it. We've mocked them up. It's not a given we put them into production."  (On talk of the newspaper may put ads on it's front page.)

RUSH LIMBAUGH

"What kind of insult is this? Instead of buying us off and treating us like we're a bunch of whores, just solve the problem." (On the Republicans plan to send $100 to taxpayers in "gas relief.")

BARRY BONDS

"The thing is, I'm not trying to pass Ruth because Ruth doesn't have the record. Hank Aaron has the record. Going past Ruth would be just like going past Mike Schmidt or anyone else in baseball. Right? The record is Hank Aaron's. The topic is Babe Ruth."

ANN BEESON, ACLU

This "confirms our fear all along that National Security Letters are being used to get the records of thousands of innocent Americans without court approval."  (after the Justice Department revealed the FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval.)