ProudConservative.com - Quote of the Day September 2009

QUOTE OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 2009

QUOTE: 9-30-09
"When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not, they’re
fascists."
Gore Vidal

QUOTE: 9-29-09
"I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does."
John Kerry

QUOTE: 9-28-09
"It was the higher tax brackets, the so-called millionaire's tax that forced the move."
Nancy Bell

QUOTE: 9-27-09
"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are
forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their
own age, or within the term of 19 years."
President Thomas Jefferson

QUOTE: 9-26-09
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."
Thomas Paine

QUOTE: 9-25-09
"Some of the guys Chuck (Robb) and I have campaigned for are turkeys."
Joe Biden

QUOTE: 9-24-09
"It's [the U.N. climate meeting] a propagandistic exercise where 13-year-old girls from some far-away country perform
a pre-rehearsed poem. It's simply not dignified."
Czech President Vaclav Klaus

QUOTE: 9-23-09
"The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act.”
Dr. Steven Chu [on American's energy consumption]

QUOTE: 9-22-09
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to
restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Patrick Henry

QUOTE: 9-21-09
"Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't. How is that not a tax?"
George Stephanopoulos

QUOTE: 9-20-09
"I'll bet you never dreamed you'd look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days."
Mitt Romney

QUOTE: 9-19-09
"It will be very interesting to see whether the young people, and minorities, and moderates who came out in support of
President Obama will vote again."
Bill Galston

QUOTE: 9-18-09
"It did not help the cause of diversity and tolerance with his [Joe Wilson's] remarks. If I was a betting man, I’d say it
instigated more racist sentiment, feeling that it’s OK, that you don’t have to bury it down. I guess we’ll probably have
folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside, intimidating people. That’s
the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked.”
Hank Johnson

QUOTE: 9-17-09
"If the [Obama] administration approaches us in the future with any request, I would be strongly against it."
Jan Vidim

QUOTE: 9-16-09
"He should understand that (his health care proposal) means that virtually every single coal miner is going to have a big,
big tax put on them."
Jay Rockefeller

QUOTE: 9-15-09
"We've got to shut off every federal dollar to ACORN and we've got to investigate them thoroughly."
Steve King

QUOTE: 9-14-09
"I'm a big, fat liberal and even I get bored with just Air America, Keith Olberman and Ed Shultz."
Kevin Seconds

QUOTE: 9-13-09
"You will not spend the money of our children and our grandchildren to feed an overstuffed government."
Tom Price

QUOTE: 9-12-09
"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of
years.”
Larry Summers

QUOTE: 9-11-09
"Let's roll!"
Todd Beamer

QUOTE: 9-10-09
"You lie!"
Joe Wilson

QUOTE: 9-9-09
"If the czars have high-level, decision-making authority as their titles would indicate, then it is my concern that their
appointment without Senate approval represents a circumvention of our Constitutionally-mandated confirmation
process."
Patrick McHenry

QUOTE: 9-8-09
"With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can't deny that Obama is different. He's
intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him."
Hugo Chavez

QUOTE: 9-7-09
"We have about two dozen so-called czars -- the pay czar, the car czar, all these czars in the White House. And that
really is an affront to the Constitution, because the Constitution was set up to say that the president is the executive, but
the people who manage the government -- the secretaries, the Cabinet members, of which I was one -- have to be
approved by the Congress and have to report to the Congress."
Lamar Alexander

QUOTE: 9-6-09
"Just a little bit more, just a little bit more ... just a little bit more petroleum. It was shameful; am I wrong? Like a
crackhead trying to lick the pipe for a fix."
Van Jones [on President George W. Bush]

QUOTE: 9-5-09
"All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
Jonathan Swift

QUOTE: 9-4-09
"As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality. This is
something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
Steve Russell

QUOTE: 9-3-09
"I never dreamed I would see an administration try to disavow all the things that have made this country different from
all others.”
Jim Inhofe

QUOTE: 9-2-09
"I think it's [Ted Kennedy's death] going to help us."
Harry Reid

QUOTE: 9-1-09
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke

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