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"I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness....I never felt sorry for people like Lindsay Lohan in my life. I thought they were dopey little movie stars. Now I feel sorry for those people."

--Bill O'Reilly, quoted in Newsday, October 18

"Big government flourishes under Republicans."

--Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), speaking on the Alex Jones radio show, October 11

"The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved Enslaved may refer to:
  • Slavery, the socio-economic condition of being owned and worked by and for someone else
  • Submissive (BDSM), people playing the 'slave' part in BDSM
  • Enslaved (band), a progressive black metal/Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway
 by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing."

--Madonna, in the documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret I'm Going to Tell You a Secret is a documentary following pop singer Madonna on her successful 2004 Re-Invention Tour, chronicling early events such as dancer auditions, rehearsals and opening night, and continuing all the way through the final show and her visit to Israel , quoted in The Drudge Report, October 7

"This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year. If we don't use this power, cities will die."

--Rivera Beach, Florida, Mayor Michael Brown, defending the proposed use of eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in  to relocate 6,000 low-income residents and make room for a yachting and housing complex, quoted by UPI UPI
abbr.
United Press International
, October 4

"P.S. No more public scatology scatology /sca·tol·o·gy/ (skah-tol´ah-je)
1. study and analysis of feces, as for diagnosis.

2. a preoccupation with feces, filth, and obscenities.
."

--future President George W. Bush, in a July 18, 1997, thank you note to future Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers
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Date:Jan 1, 2006
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