SAY WHAT?
Politicians Revealing Their True Nature

"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."
White House Aide PAUL BEGALA, July 1998

"The President kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS, in February of 1994.

[You're] talking about what Libertarians are against, not what Republicans are against."
SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R-PA) referring to "big government" on Politically Incorrect.

"I don't trust human nature as much as libertarians do."
REP. HENRY HYDE (R-IL), in Investors Business Daily

"We'll do what we said we were going to do or we'll do something else."
BILL CLINTON, on his foreign policy

"Sometimes I think I raise your taxes too much."
BILL CLINTON yet again

"Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."
PAT BUCHANAN, on equal rights.

"[The Clinton tax increase] was the largest increase in the history of the world."
SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN (D-NY) on a man he supports.

"It was just an innocent bureaucratic snafu."
BILL CLINTON, on how over 900 obsolete FBI files were at the White House

"The President is the only place in this system of ours where there is one person who can stand up for people with no voice, no power..."
BILL CLINTON, on why he vetoed the ban on partial birth abortions.

"I can understand [cuffing] the blacks and the poor people; they'll run. But I paid $140,000 in taxes last year. I'm a good American citizen."
Georgia State Senator RENE KEMP (D-Heinzville) after being arrested for DUI

"Bill Clinton is a good liar. Exceptionally good."
SEN. BOB KERREY (D-NE), who said he meant it as a compliment.

"F*** you! You are a big s***! You're full of s***!"
NPR Reporter NINA TOTENBERG, to Sen. Alan Simpson. She was evidentally trying to begin a rational discussion by utilizing her wonderful vocabulary.

"[Bob Dole] is [the] tax collector for the welfare state."
NEWT GINGRICH on the man he later endorsed for President.

"Bob Dole's library burned last night. Both books were lost, and he hadn't finished coloring one yet."
JACK KEMP in 1985, on his future running mate.

"[Exposing one's penis] does not constitute harassment."
ELLEN GOODMAN in a January 18, 1997 column.

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
ADOLF HITLER, Edict of March 19, 1938

"You ought to do what you do best to terrorize professors you don't like."
San Francisco Mayor WILLIE BROWN, on his plan for educational excellence.

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