We have an oligarchy here, not a democracy. -Walter Cronkite, October 27, 2002

He is the worst President in all of American history -Helen Thomas, January 23, 2003

If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention -The Orlando Sentinel, November 20, 2002

I don't know where he is ... I truly am not that concerned about him -Bush, on Osama bin Laden, March 13, 2002, according to White House transcript

I don't know where he is ... I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority. -Bush, on Osama bin Laden, March 13, 2002, according to Bartcop report of March 18, 2002

Saddam is the true threat to America. -Bush on al Qaeda, September 2002

Cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements ... CIA assessments are being put aside by the Defense Department in favour of intelligence they are getting from various Iraqi exiles -Former CIA counterintelligence chief Vincent Cannistraro, October 9, 2002

I am using every opportunity to say to people in the government who are in the position that I was then, and who know that their president is lying us into a wrongful and reckless war, to do what I wish I had done in 1964-65: to go to Congress and the press with documents and tell the truth. That would be a risk, but there are times when big risks are worth that to save a lot of lives. -Daniel Ellsberg, December 2002

An American citizen has been held incommunicado and subjected to an indefinite detention in the continential United States without charges, without any finding by a military tribunal, and without access to a lawyer. -Federal District Judge Robert Doumar, August 16, 2002

One power with a President who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust. -Nelson Mandela, January 30, 2003

Our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war ... has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable, and those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, also known as 'Christians', and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities ... they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. -Kurt Vonnegut, January 2003

[it will take] years to undo the damage -Department of Justice Antitrust Division head Charles James deploring the successes of Clinton's Antitrust division, according to eavesdropping lawyer Thomas Willcox, October 16, 2001

The theory of monopoly leveraging has been largely if not entirely rejected by our courts. -Charles James, the Department of Justice's head of antitrust investigations, lobbying the European Union to allow monopoly control of markets, May 2002

The Republicans have moved so far to the right that ... focus groups literally refused to believe accurate descriptions of the stimulus bill that House Republican leaders passed on a party-line vote back in October. -New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, January 4, 2002

As long as they're hitting you on Enron, they're not hitting me. That's your job. You're the lightning rod for this administration. -Bush, to Army Secretary Thomas White, June 2002:

Our economy is strong, it's resiliant, and we've got to continue to make it strong and resiliant. -Bush giving a solid reason to invade Iraq, December 31, 2002

There will be serious consequences for any Iraqi general or soldier who were to use weapons on our troops -Bush, January 21, 2003

It might be interesting to wonder why all the generals see it the same way, and all those that never fired a shot in anger and are really hellbent to go to war see it a different way. -General Anthony Zinni on the internal debate over whether to invade Iraq, August 23, 2002

The generals are a little afraid of Iraq, a little worried about it, but it's the civilians in the White House, the gang of thieving lobbyists for the military-industrial complex, who are running the White House, and if to be against them is to be unpatriotic, then hell, call me a traitor. -Hunter S. Thompson, August 30, 2002

It is interesting to me that many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off. -Senator Chuck Hagel, October 2002

I have gotten nervous at some of the pronouncements Rumsfeld has made ... he disregards the Army ... it's scary ... there are guys at the Pentagon who have been involved in operational planning for their entire lives ... and for this wisdom ... to just be ignored and in its place have somebody who doesn't have any of that training, is of concern. -General Norman Scharzkopf, January 2003

This is a war. -Karl Rove, giving a reason for repealing the estate tax, June 2002

Japanese camp files -United States intelligence community lingo for terrorism suspect dossiers received from the White House or from the fledgeling Department of Homeland Security, as reported by Capitol Hill Blue, January 2, 2003

homicide bombers -Phrase invented by White House staff, as the public begins to consider the suicide aspect of suicide bombing to be more important than the killing-innocent-people aspect of bombing innocent people, April 2002

Only the rich pay income taxes -Rush Limbaugh, October 23, 2002

Lucky duckies ... the non-taxpaying class -The Wall Street Journal envying the benefits of impoverishment, November 20, 2002, and again on January 21, 2003

when you cut taxes, you double revenues -Sean Hannity, January 7, 2003

the President considers this nation to be at war, and as such considers any opposition to his policies to be no less than an act of treason -An anonymous White House official, according to Capitol Hill Blue, January 2003

Homosexuality is the judgement of God on America -Jerry Thacker, one of several racist or sexist Bush appointees to the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS

So are you British or Irish? -Bush to singer Josie Walker, after she said she was from Belfast, January 2001

Do you have blacks, too? -Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, according to Cardoso's friend Fernando Pedriera, April 2002

Total crap -The White House's description of Pedriera's report, April 28, 2002

It was a slow week at the White House. They needed something to stir the pot because nothing was happening in Iraq. -The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on an FBI alert warning of five terrorists infiltrating the United States from the Canadian border which the FBI later admitted was fabricated, January 4, 2003

Unfortunately, America has given the fundamentalists a strong pretext...now that there is a move against Iraq, it has proven bin Laden right...we don't know who poses a greater threat, the American President or Saddam Hussein. -Moammar Khadafi, January 12, 2003

This is a war between the forces of God and the forces of evil. -Samiul Haq, January 3, 2003

Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. -The New York Times, praising Venezuelan revolution leader Pedro Carmona's dissolution of the Legislature and Supreme Court and repealing of the Constitution, April 2002.

When the media keeps pounding on the war drum, it's hard to hear other points of view on how we should respond to the disgusting World Trade Towers attack. -Cartoonist Tood Persche, October 11, 2001. He is immediately fired.

We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away, that's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits, say what you want about it, that's not cowardly. -Comedian Bill Maher, September 2001. He is subsequently fired.

All Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do -White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher, September 25, 2001

Military propaganda -Medicins Sans Frontieres's description of food drops over Afghanistan, October 8, 2001

skyfall -Name given by an anonymous FBI archivist to an FBI warning of imminent terrorist attack, October 11, 2001

2. Ask our representatives to help break the cycle of violence -The City of Berkeley, California, blaming the United States for the September 11 terrorist attacks, October 16, 2001

Up until 1948 there was no Israel. The United Nations took Palestinian land and gave it to a number of Jewish terrorists to rule -The Oneida Daily Dispatch, flunking history while blaming the United States for the September 11 attack

If Osama bin Laden is confirmed to be behind the attacks, the United States should bring him before an international tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity -Liberal professor's quote deemed treasonously anti-American by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a group founded by Senator Joe Lieberman and Lynne Cheney, November 13, 2001

Anybody who can blow up the Pentagon has my vote -Right-wing professor's quote defended as free speech by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, November 12, 2001

High Jack This Fags -Scrawl chalked onto a bomb by anonymous military personnel, photographs of which are published October 2001.

The threat of fleets, sanctions, and embargoes -Terrorism as defined by Moammar Gadhafi, October 24

Disproportionate use of force -Amnesty International description of the bombing of escaped Taliban soldiers who had captured their prison and had fought off Alliance attempts to retake their position, November 25, 2001

slaughter of prisoners of war...massacre -Daily Telegraph report on the battle to retake control of a prison where Taliban soldiers had rebelled, December 2, 2001

We are at war -Bush ignoring reality, November 29, 2001

Bush would rather look forward than backward...the result is a president who operates without evident remorse or second guessing -Newsweek Magazine praising Bush's willful ignorance of history as a virtue, December 3, 2001

To those scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil -Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 2001

To what degree are we willing to compromise our civil liberties in the name of security? -Sacramento Bee publisher Janis Heaphy, December 16, 2001. She is heckled off the stage.

You tell the President there's going to be war between the President and this committee ... This is not a monarchy ... We've got a dictatorial President ... Your guy's acting like he's King. -Senator Dan Burton, December 13, 2001

Anyone who espouses a philosophy that's terrorist and bent, I assure you, we will bring that person to justice. -Bush, January 7, 2002

Brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism that can only be conducted by the samurais of Japan in defiance of international law -North Korea on Japan's returning fire upon a North Korean spy ship that had entered Japanese waters and fired upon Japanese ships before being scuttled by its crew, December 22, 2001

19th Century Energy Man -Sign held by a man during a protest in Indiana, February 6, 2002. The man is arrested.

disturbing the peace -Reason given by police for arresting several students who stood and faced away from Bush during his commencement speech at Ohio State University, June 14, 2002

absolutist and simplistic -European Union Commissioner of International Relations Chris Patten's absolutist and simplistic description of Bush's foreign policies, February 9, 2002

The review of battlefield captures in overseas conflicts is...highly deferential...any effort to ascertain the facts...would entail an unacceptable risk of obstructing war efforts authorized by Congress and undertaken by the executive branch. -The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals failing to ascertain the fact of a United States citizen being held by the military in the 4th Circuit's jurisdiction without access to a lawyer, January 8, 2003

an important victory for the President's ability to protect the American people in times of war -Attorney General Ashcroft on the 4th Circuit's approval of the President's ability to throw the American people in jail forever, without a trial, in times of peace, January 8, 2003

It's a terrorist act as far as I'm concerned. -Olathe, Kansas Superintendent of Water Protection's description of local radio DJs' April Fools' Day announcement that there is dihydrogen monoxide in the water supply, April 1, 2002

bird watchers get more enjoyment spotting a rare bird than they do spotting a common one -The Department of Defense arguing that killing more birds should make environmentalists happier, March 2002

an act of indescribable barbarity, a violation of every law of humanity and civilization -The Vatican's description of Israel demanding a group of terrorists and militiamen who shot their way into the Church of the Nativity leave the Church and surrender, April 8, 2002

We are doing what we see as good for our people and we do not accept any orders from anyone. -Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat after he is accused of supporting terrorism, June 2002

Hitler didn't finish the job! -Slogan of Palestinian Authority supporters attacking a peace rally organized by a Jewish group at San Francisco State University, May 2002. Some anti-Israel news organizations called the Palestinian Authority supporters peace activists and called the peace activists Israel supporters.

the Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe. That's why he fried six million of these guys. Jews would have owned the whole god-damned world, and look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries...I saw the Jews kill people in Egypt while I was there...I saw Israel fucking dominate everything. How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate? -Former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations David Ahenakew, December 14, 2002

The real axis of evil, comprised of the US, Israel, and India, is getting more involved in Afghanistan. Although the Americans have in effect occupied Afghanistan, they have failed to subdue the Afghans; the Indians have sneaked in by such ruses as reconstruction projects and consulates in cities such as Qandahar, Jalalabad and Herat. Now the Israelis have also got a foothold in the country. Several hundred Israeli commandos and Mossad agents are reportedly operating in Afghanistan...as a result of the Israelis' involvement in Afghanistan, Karzai will now also be expected to recognize Israel...the Israelis are positioning themselves for a possible strike on Pakistan's nuclear installations...The only jobs available in Kabul are as translators, drivers and so forth, serving the occupiers...the maligned burqa is still very much part of customary womens' dress. It is part of Afghan culture; the Taliban merely enforced it with greater vigor, but women wear it willingly to protect themselves from the taunts of men. The women in Kabul who wear skirts, blouses and heavy make-up are not typical Afghan women...since the Taliban left, rape of women has become widespread...[the Afghan people] did not want to listen to music or to shave their beards...Afgahnistan today is not only under American military occupation but also Indian and Israeli occupation. So much for the liberation of Afghanstian. -MusliMedia International, December 15, 2002

If the series terrifies the Jews, we will produce more series. It's an honor to be opposed to the Jews. It is my pride to be defended by not only 67 million Egyptians but also by 240 million Arabs. It honors me very much that I was capable of revealing the great conspiracy aimed at swallowing our beloved nation. -Mohamed Sobhi, co-author of Horseman Without a Horse, a television series which proclaims the existence of a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world

crap...worthless -Merrill Lynch stock analysts' descriptions of their highest rated stocks, in private correspondence released April 2002

We're changing everything to bring you better news. -Cable News Network, days after CEO Walter Isaacson meets with leaders of the Republican Party in August 2001

A component of Fidel Castro's propaganda machine -Conservative News Network, on Cable News Network, May 9, 2002

If it was back in the old days, I would challenge them to a duel -Alaska Senator Ted Stevens threatening to kill people opposed to the idea of drilling in land designated as parkland, April 16, 2002

Nuclear Neglect -Fox News's description of the military's failure to attempt to stop in a Fox flight over a nuclear power plant that was fully cleared with the proper authorities, April 2002

Complexities bring you into different situations where different tactics are important -National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice explaining the United States' support of Venezuelan dictator Pedro Carmona, April 30, 2002

bless our President, Congress, and all our leaders with supernatural power, -The Senate Chaplain and possible fan of comic books, May 2, 2002

obstructionist -Bush on political ally Ron Kirk, who supports Bush's positions and is not in Congress to obstruct anything, but is running for Congress under the Democratic ticket, May 9, 2002

A Tom Daschle Democrat...somebody who will subvert Bush's agenda -White House staff on Bush's political ally Ron Kirk, who supports Bush's positions but is running for Congress on the Democratic ticket, May 2002

Jimmy Carter is ... part of the reason why Osama bin Laden operatives slammed airliners into the World Trade Center...the blood of perhaps a million people dripping from his hands...has done more to undermine and destroy world peace than any other human being alive ... if, God forbid, New York City or Washington D.C. are vaporized by a Muslim terrorist atomic weapon ... Jimmy Carter's demented politics should be held responsible -Lowell Ponte, May 15, 2002

A man of great character -Bush on former President Ronald Reagan, who defied Congressional orders by selling arms to enemy nations to secretly fund the terrorist murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Central and South America, May 16, 2002

Thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war -Vice President Dick Cheney on any political opposition to any of Bush's policies, May 2002

one world religion: Pantheism world taxation -Grant County, Oregon's description of the United Nation's ultimate goal as passed by voters, May 2002

... witch hunt ... [like] the dark days of Stalinist trials of churchmen of Eastern Europe -Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras on news reports that the Catholic Church has allowed priests to molest children, June 2002

if we delay then the Rule of Law may be dead and America may turn into a Communist police state -The College Republican National Committee, in soliciting donations, June 2002

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures -Bush defending his insider trading, July 2002

More detentions, more stops, and more profiling -Peter Kirsanow, Bush's appointee to the US Commission on Civil Rights, of what should be done to Arabs, July 2002

America needs a group of dedicated professionals who wake up each morning with the overriding duty of protecting the American people -Bush detailing what the United States lacks, thereby insulting the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, CIA, NSA, and other federal agencies with the overriding duty of protecting the American people, July 26, 2002

It must be the ruling priority of all of our government -Bush detailing the power that should be given to the Department of Homeland Security, July 26, 2002

We must collectively get after those who kill in the name of some kind of false religion -Bush on the religion followed by al Qaeda, August 1, 2002

Volunteer Now! -The Citizen Corps web site, encouraging people to turn in to the government any neighbours whose activities they deem suspicious or insufficiently patriotic, mid-2002

It doesn't matter if Jerry has a deep and unabiding faith and it certainly doesn't disqualify him for public service. -Florida Governor Jeb Bush on his appointment Jerry Reiger, who considers it appropriate to beat children bloody and bruised and considers any marriage between Christian and non-Christian to be illegitimate, to lead the state's child welfare services, August 2002

preventing US citizens from enacting common sense -Bush on environmentalists who sue to have logging laws enforced when the government allows loggers to break the law, August 2002

Groups of people should not be judged by the actions of a few. It is wrong to condemn an entire group of people by association of religion, race, homeland, or even proximity. No one likes to be blamed or threatened for the actions of others ... Avoid making negative statements about any racial, ethnic, or religious group at these very tense and troubling times ... Focusing on the nationality of the terrorists can create prejudice, anger, and mistrust for their group members. -Statement by the National Association of School Psychologists, September 15, 2001, for which the National Education Association is widely condemned by pro-Republican news organizations for reprinting

Truth is important in journalism -Full page ad run by Fox News falsely accusing Cable News Network of paying al Qaeda for videotapes, August 2002

Congress ought to be here working. There's nothing I can do by going up there. -Senator Robert Byrd on Congress's ceremonies in New York marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, September 2002

to participate in sexual tourism -Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Otto Reich's opinion of the true reason Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura led a diplomatic delegation to Cuba, September 2002

The United States and its allies are carrying out new crusade wars against Muslims ... the attacks against Afghanistan were cruel and without any strong reason. -Abdul Hadi Awang, head of Malaysia's second largest party, September 12, 2002

Since our story was published on Wednesday, we did receive a visit from one newly assigned federal security agent. His message: By writing about the Musarra case, we helped the enemy. To the extent he and his ilk employ form over substance in their search for enemies of the republic, my recommendation is that they look in the mirror. -The Juneau Empire, September 2002

A joke...almost insulting -Senator McCain on Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's briefings on Iraq, September 2002

Qatar is commiting Treason against all Muslims -Iranian Chief Justice Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati's description of Qatar's allowing the United States a military base on its soil, September 20, 2002

The Senate is more interested in special interests in Washington, and not interested in the security of the American people -Bush on the Democrats, repeated in three different speeches on September 25, 2002

Do we really want to punish the Germans for being pacifists? Once these guys get rolling in the other direction, they really don't know how to put the breaks on. -Maureen Dowd, September 26, 2002

For adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world. - Reason for award of the Ig Nobel Prize for Economics to Enron, Lernaut and Hauspie, Adelphia, Bank of Commerce and Credit International, Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy, Gazprom, Global Crossing, HIH Insurance, Informix, Kmart, Maxwell Communications, McKesson, HBOC, Merrill Lynch, Merck, Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications, Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid, Sunbeam, Tyco, Waste Management, WorldCom, Xerox, and Arthur Andersen, October 3, 2002

if the Bush administration was seeking advice on whether the sun revolved around the earth or vice versa, would it take Galileo off the committee and replace him with the Inquisition? -Representative Ed Markey on Bush's appointment of lead industry lobbyists and lawyers to the Center for Disease Control's Lead Advisory Committee, October 8, 2002

The US goal in attacking Iraq is not to overthrow Saddam Hussein but to safeguard the Jewish regime -Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Yahyia Rahim Safavi, October 11, 2002

The very concept of separation mandates a recognition of sovereign God. -Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore declaring secular government an oxymoron, October 18, 2002

Obviously inappropriate, obviously illegal, and obviously a reflection that the administration will do anything to raise campaign dollars -Representative Henry Waxman on Bush's spamming federal employees to ask for campaign contributions, October 2002

The fight against terrorism will be merciless, but it must be carried out with respect for human rights and UN conventions and resolutions -French President Jacques Chirac, October 19, 2002

Mosques are our barracks...minarets are our bayonets -Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's most powerful politician today, in 1999

Those individuals that pose a threat to the security and safety of our communities -Attorney General John Ashcroft on Arabs in general and Arab-looking people, November 8, 2002

Turkey's armed forces have the will and determination to protect the Republic from...radical Islam and separatism -Turkish General Hilmi Ozkok, November 8, 2002

A violation of human rights law -Amnesty International on the bombing of a carload of known terrorists in Yemen, November 8, 2002

If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow. I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward. -Russian President Vladimir Putin to a Le Monde reporter who accused Russia of intentionally shelling civilians, November 12, 2002

The al Qaeda network poses just as great a threat today to the United States as they did over a year ago...I don't think anybody has a right to say we're winning the war on terrorism until we see more results. -Senator Daschle, November 14, 2002

Y'all ain't gonna vote today -Pensacola, Florida election official, to black voters, while white voters were allowed to vote, November 5, 2002

Everybody knows that the Fox News Channel is merely a wing of the Republican Party, and its viewers use it the same way a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination. -Democratic Party consultant James Carville, November 21, 2002

One of the things that hasn't changed and mustn't change is the character of Australia as a free and open and decent and tolerant nation. -Australian Prime Minister John Howard, November 23, 2002

The Saudi royal family has been engaged in a Faustian bargain for years to keep themselves in power. -Senator McCain, November 24, 2002

A Satanic American invention -al Qaeda, on AIDS, November 2002

the Saudis have been a good partner in the war on terrorism. -Ari Fleischer, November 25, 2002

My office has been flooded with angry phone calls from circus clowns all over America. They resent that comparison and so I would like to extend my apologies to Bozo, Chuckles, and Krusty. -Senator McCain, apologizing for calling Rush Limbaugh a circus clown,November 25, 2002

Niyazov deserves as many deadly gunshots as lives and destinies he has ruined. -Turkmen former Foreign minister Boris Shikmuradov, now in exile, on an assassination attempt against President Saparmurat Niyazov, November 25, 2002

Full statutory civilian pay raises in 2003 would interfere with our nation's ability to pursue the war on terrorism. -Bush, November 29, 2002

The national security interest of the United States -Bush's reason for refusing to enact sanctions against the Palestine Liberation Organization.

In some cases, we've mixed bad inventory with good -Senator Christopher Shays on the Army's chemical-protection suits, November 30, 2002

Republican bigwigs are taking jobs away from hard-working Illinois hookers and exporting the jobs to Costa Rican hookers, who apparently work for much less. -John Kass of the Chicago Tribune, reporting on local and state politicians' junket to Costa Rica.

The President and the Secretary of Defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true -Ari Fleisher, December 5, 2002

What we're getting and what President Bush may be getting is very different, to put it mildly. -Demetrius Perricos, United Nations, December 6, 2002

Some of the people on the committee don't want to assign the blame or the accountability. -Senator Richard Shelby on the Congressional committee investigating the government's readiness for the September 11 attacks, December 10, 2002

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for President we voted for him, and we're proud of it, and if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either. -Senator Lott, December 5, 2002

There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theatres, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches. -Strom Thurmond, while running for President, 1948

There are people in Washington who have been trying to nail me for a long time...When you're from Mississippi and you're a conservative and you're a Christian, there are a lot of people that don't like that. -Senator Lott, December 23, 2002

What they are really upset about is that he made public their strategy. They try to suppress black voting, they ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina, and from top to bottom the Republicans supported it ... he just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day. -Bill Clinton on Trent Lott, December 17, 2002

The media now force interracial marriages into the public mind...rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion...THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and Washington tell us. -Washington Times Assistant National Editor Robert Stacy McCain

THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT...NO APOLOGIES FOR SLAVERY should be made. In both the Old and New Testaments slavery is sanctioned and regulated according to God's word. Thus, when practiced in accord with Holy Scripture, it is NOT A SIN...what we are really upholding is GOD'S WORD -Washington Times Assistant National Editor Robert Stacy McCain

All African Americans are much better off in the United States than they would be with their brethren back in Africa ... we don't have segregation now ... black people owe loyalty to America ... black married couples that stay together in America earn 80 percent of what white married couples earn ... you're telling me that's not parity? -Fox News talk show host Bill O'Reilly, April 5, 2002

That's a real nice place on the ticket for a woman ... They like that kind of work -National Republican Party Committee member Chuck Yob saying that women should run for Secretary of State rather than for Governor, March 2002

A man who is black attorney from Detroit. As you all know, people in the U.P. don't like attorneys, and they really don't like Detroiters. -National Republican Party Committee member Chuck Yob on Democratic candidate Melvin Hollowell, October 2002

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization...the West will continue to conquer peoples, like it conquered Communism. -Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, September 25, 2001

If I see someone comes in that's got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over. -Congressman John Cooksey, September 17, 2001

I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States. I am stunned that we have not done a better job of pursuing that to determine if other terrorists received similar support, and even more important, if the infrastructure of a foreign government assisting terrorists still exists for the current generation of terrorists who are here planning the next plots. To me that is an extremely significant issue and most of that information is classified, I think overly-classified. I believe the American people should know the extent of the challenge that we face in terms of foreign government involvement. That would motivate the government to take action. -Senator Graham, December 11, 2002

The paramount interest of the United States -Bush's reason for barring lawsuits against the Air Force for exposing workers to hazardous materials at Groom Lake Air Force Base, causing the workers to get cancer; December 13, 2002

The only way to cure the cat is to cut off its head. -Bush, responding to Yemeni President Saleh's mentioning of a proverb that a cat put into a cage can become a lion, December 2002.

The right to be protected by soldiers quartered in one's home, the guarantee that activities not specifically delegated to the states and the people will be carried out by the federal government, and freedom of Judeo-Christian activity and non-combative speech. -The Onion, in a satirical report on amendments to be added to the Constitution by Ashcroft, December 18, 2002

You don't have to worry about Christmas. -Judge Kevin McHugh ordering the deportation of a Pakistani man, married to a Christian American citizen, and his father, December 20, 2002

This is not just a failure of the Geneva talks, but of two years of negotiations. -Medecins Sans Frontieres on the United States' refusal to allow poor countries to produce drugs which they cannot afford to purchase but are needed to treat critical illnesses, December 21, 2002

Pay increases in 2003 would interfere with our nation's ability to pursue the war on terrorism -Bush's reason given for vetoing a bill to raise federal salaries, December 2002

32% of Americans believe that the President may suspend the Bill of Rights in wartime. -Mona Charen, December 24, 2002

No one really thinks these terrorists are going to win a military victory over us...the only way that we can be vanquished is if we respond to this in a way that compromises the future of our children and the character of our nation. -Bill Clinton, January 23, 2003

You will be fighting not to conquer anybody but to liberate people -Bush to soldiers, January 3, 2003

When it [the US] flouts human rights standards, it damages the human rights cause worldwide. -Human Rights Watch, January 14, 2003