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Archive for 2008

We’re not day traders, and we’re not looking for a return tomorrow

– Neel Kashkari, the director of Treasury’s Office of Financial Stability, talks about the fact that the feds have lost $9 billion since they invested taxpayer money into banks in an effort to bail them out.

It’s going to take time for all the actions we’ve taken to have their full impact

– President Bush talks about the federal bailout. Of course it’s going to take time to lose everything, and for this bailout to reach it’s full $7 trillion impact.

We are thrilled, and it’s a bittersweet moment

It was satisfying seeing him in shackles like he belongs

– Fred Goldman talks about the conviction of O.J. Simpson.

We’re on the brink with the U.S. auto manufacturing industry

If we have a catastrophic failure of one of these car companies, in this tender environment for the economy, it’s a huge blow

It could trigger a depression

– Chrylser vice-chairman, Jim Press talks about bankruptcy in the auto industry.

I believe that an intervention will happen

Everybody is disadvantaged by bankruptcy, including our economy, so that’s not an option

– Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (aka Nanny State Nancy) says bankruptcy is not an option for automakers. She feels the taxpayer needs to foot the bill for years of mismanagement and unseemly business practices.

My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway

In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol

It may be descriptive but it’s true

– Harry Reid talks about smelly tourists at the Capitol and the new Capitol Visitors Center.

I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace

I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.

I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.

– President George W. Bush wants history to remember him as a man of principle.

It appears these lawyers’ hearts are two sizes too small

– Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson comments on the cease and desist letter received from Dr. Seuss Enterprises regarding the city of Louisville’s annual Christmas display.

History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market, but too much

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Our aim should not be more government, it should be smarter government

Why didn’t he take this stance earlier?

Tough economic times call for stiff measures

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force”

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“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did”

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“When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist”