Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
Just because ... you don't like my haircut, or just because you don't like that I'm gay, it does not make what we say not true.
- RACHEL MADDOW,
- MSNBC host, responding to critics who tweeted things like "Rachel Maddow is wrong, and she's also gay" in response to her report about the battle over union rights in Wisconsin
Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
What a terrible, terrible day for Wisconsin, I am incensed. I am shocked.- JON RICHARDS,
- a democrat representative for Milwaukee, responding to news that the bill to limit Union Rights passed the Wisconsin Assembly vote early Friday following days of debate and protests
Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
The airport is just a zoo. There's about 10,000 people there, all trying to get out.- EWAN BLACK,
- a Briton that managed to flee Tripoli, amid ongoing chaos in the Libyan capital
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
I didn't feel anything unusual going on.- JACK REED,
- Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, on the claims that an Army general ordered a "psychological operations" team in Afghanistan to use propaganda tactics to influence visiting members of Congress to support additional war funding
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
I don't suggest anyone test the determination of the state of Israel.- BENJAMIN NETANYAHU,
- Israeli Prime Minister, after Israel bombed several sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Beersheba
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
I never experienced anything like that before.- CARMELO ANTHONY,
- NBA All-Star, on playing his first game for the New York Knicks after being traded by the Denver Nuggets
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
Our children have been manipulated by al-Qaeda.- MUAMMAR GADDAFI,
- Libya's embattled leader, speaking by phone on state TV, blaming the country's uprising on Osama bin Laden and the influence of drugs and alcohol on Libya's youth
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
The heavens awaitDiscovery.- A SIGN
- outside a Florida church near Cape Canaveral, where NASA'sDiscovery will attempt to lift off for its final voyage on Thursday
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
I think I know why you're here, and let me just deflate the tension right off the bat: Apology accepted.- JON STEWART,
- a vocal critic of the Iraq war, accepting an unspoken apology from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on The Daily Show on Wednesday
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi does not even have 5% of the country behind him.- NOURI EL-MISMARI,
- the Libyan leader's former protocol chief, predicting the end of Gaddafi's 42-year rule
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
I never met a German shepherd who could open the refrigerator or food bag and pour himself another bowl.- STEVEN BUDSBERG,
- director of clinical research at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, on the news that more than half of U.S. dogs and cats are obese
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
They were doing what they wanted to do, but that's small comfort in the face of this.- JOE GRANDE,
- a friend of Robert Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, two of the four people who were shot to death by Somali pirates off the coast of Oman
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
Something is amiss.- BILL WALKER,
- head of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, on the spate of infant-dolphin deaths, which may be related to the BP oil spill; 17 dead baby dolphins have been found this month
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
What comes next is a bunch of ugly.- RALPH MARTIRE,
- executive director of the Bipartisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, referring to Chicago's financial woes, which Rahm Emanuel, who won a landslide mayoral victory on Tuesday, will face
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
It's not Putin's business. It must be decided by the nation in the elections, by those who would cast the ballots. Can't other people also run?- MIKHAIL GORBACHEV,
- former Soviet leader, reacting to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev's remarks that they will decide who should run for President in the March 2012 elections
Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011
We will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000. - JASON CLAY
- of the World Wildlife Fund, on the U.N. prediction that the global population will reach nine billion by 2050 and that people will be competing for ever scarcer resources
Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011
I had just gotten sick of it. It was in my eyes. I didn't want it in my face. - JUSTIN BIEBER,
- singer, explaining why he cut his hair
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