Talk Of…

Archive for September, 2007

“There are too many mosques in this country”

“There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam”

“We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them”

“I don’t know”

“I never thought about it”

“Is the world flat has not been an important thing to me”

“If mothers ruled the world there would be no god-damned wars in the first place”

“I used to tell my friends that one reason I looked fatter was that I had developed a thicker skin”

“There has been an attempt to portray her as a cold fish, and she is not”

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil”

– Alan Greenspan talks about the motive for the war in Iraq.

Too bad “about oil” and “for oil” mean too different things huh? The Times Online article headline reads, “Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil” but that’s not what he said.

“I’ve tangled with this issue before”

“I’ve got the scars to show for it”

“I learned some valuable lessons from that experience”

“It’s stolen stuff that’s mine. Nobody was roughed up”

“I will decide based on whether I have about $30 million in committed campaign contributions and whether I think it is possible to run a campaign based on ideas rather than 30-second sound bites”

“The health department does not consider a person’s shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation”