Here's a set of quips, quotes, comments and critiques to keep in mind while fighting the power (i.e. the GOP, the conservative threat, forces of darkness, right-wing agents of Satan - that kind of power). Use the Feedback Form to submit your own mantra of the day.

(For a complete listing of the verbal incontinence of George W. Bush, visit Jacob Weisberg's "Complete Bushisms") over at Slate.

"It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin–like president—because, let’s face it, that’s what he was - was going to be protected by this national- security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire." Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, aide to Colin Powell, on George W. Bush's nationals security team in 2001, reported December 30, 2008.

"Politically, it was the final nail in the coffin." Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director, on Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, reported December 30, 2008.

"Katrina to me was the tipping point. The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public."  Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign, reported December 30, 2008.

"In 100 years people aren’t going to remember Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib, they’re going to remember 9/11 and Bush’s reaction to it."  John Bolton, former Bush ambassador to the UN, December 29, 2008.

"I don't have any idea. I don't follow the polls."  Dick Cheney, asked to explain his unpopularity, December 28, 2008.

"Well, I know it's not. And so I don't really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way."  Laura Bush, December 29, 2008.

"Generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will."  Condi Rice, December 28, 2008.

"I'm sure that there are some that deserve an A-plus and some that deserve a lot less." Condoleezza Rice, grading the Bush record on foreign policy, December 28, 2008.

"I absolutely am so proud that we liberated Iraq...as a political scientist."  Condi Rice, December 18, 2008.

"I think that that’s been debunked."  Press Secretary Dana Perino, on British charges in Downing Street memo that the facts of Iraq intelligence would be fixed around the politics, December 4, 2008.

"I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever." Robert Novak, whose outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame ended her career, December 1, 2008.

"We've won the war." William Kristol, December 2, 2008.

"Yeah, that's right. So what?"  President Bush, acknowledging Al Qaeda was not a threat in Iraq prior to the invasion,  December 15, 2008.

"So?"  Vice President Cheney, on Americans' disapproval for the Iraq war, March 19, 2008.

"My friend, if you think we’re going to spend a billion dollars of our money over there, you are sadly mistaken."  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to General Jay Garner, administrator for Iraq Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, March 2003.

"It is regrettable that they had to die, but I believe they did have to die." Frank Gaffney, on U.S. casualties in Iraq, December 16, 2008.

"I mean, no one could have anticipated that kind of attack- or very few people."  White House spokesman Tony Fratto, on 9/11 attacks using airplanes, December 17, 2008.

"History though is going to be kind to him at the end. I'm absolutely confident of that."  Karl Rove, on President Bush, December 27, 2008.

"We did it in a manner that I believe and the lawyers that we looked to for advice believed was fully consistent with the Constitution and with the laws of the land."  Dick Cheney, on President Bush's exercise of wartime power, December 22, 2008.

"General proposition, I'd say yes."  Vice President Cheney, asked "If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?" on December 22, 2008.

"I feel very good about what we did. I think it was the right thing to do. If I was faced with those circumstances again I'd do exactly the same thing."  Vice President Cheney, December 18, 2008.

"Was it torture? I don't believe it was torture."  Vice President Cheney, December 18, 2008.

"I think it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11."   Vice President Cheney, December 18, 2008.

"I think Guantanamo has been very well run."  Vice President Cheney, December 15, 2008.

"So I think detaining people, removing them from the stream of battle by the collective wisdom of mankind, has been a humanitarian act in terms of war circumstances." Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 12, 2008.

"Once they get here and they're faced with the same problems we deal with every day, then they will appreciate some of the things we've put in place."  Vice President Cheney, on the incoming Obama administration, December 15, 2008.

"I don't want it to be -- you know, kind of a real emotional goodbye. If I give it, it's going to be trying to leave behind some lessons learned." President Bush, on the prospect of giving a farewell speech, December 19, 2008.

"I am the very last President not to really have to worry about YouTube."  President Bush, December 19, 2008.

"I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy." President Bush, December 17, 2008.

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process."  President Bush, November 20, 2008.

"So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the President during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression." President Bush, on Wall Street bailout, December 18, 2008.

"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."  President Bush, December 16, 2008.

"If we don't do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever." Vice President Cheney, on auto bailout, December 12, 2008.

"One thing I'd sure not want to have on my record is I'm known as George Herbert Hoover Bush."  Senator George Voinovich (R-OH), December 12, 2008.

"You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President."  President Bush, December 1, 2008.

"I'm sorry it's happening, of course."  President Bush, on the recession, December 1, 2008.

"How did we get here?" President Bush, on the economic crisis, September 18, 2008.

"I never said the Taliban was eliminated."  President Bush, December 15, 2008.

"As a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence. And the people of Afghanistan are now free."  President Bush, September 27, 2008.

"It is true, as I have said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11."  President Bush, December 5, 2008.

"I think I was unprepared for war." President Bush, December 1, 2008.

"Absolutely. Absolutely, no question in my mind...this really, really good person got chucked out there and, man, the lions tore her up."  President Bush, asked if Harriet Miers would have been an "excellent" Supreme Court justice, December 8, 2008.

"It's not a clean-cut division." EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, on religion versus science, December 7, 2008.

"Well, the economy’s in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006, you knew that those tax increases were going to come in 2010." Grover Norquist, November 25, 2008.

"It was his campaign. Nothing ever happened that he didn't want to happen." Campaign chairman Rick Davis on John McCain, November 14, 2008.

"Do you want to end up like [President] Bush?" French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Vladimir Putin, August 12, 2008.

"I don't think I'd define it that way." Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC), asked if Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party, November 13, 2008.

"I think just throwing out a symbol or an icon is not enough."  Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), on John McCain's use of "Joe the Plumber," November 13, 2008.

"I say God bless George W. Bush." Sarah Palin, November 13, 2008.

"God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family." Sarah Palin, November 5, 2008.

"Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast." Anonymous John McCain aide, November 5, 2008.

"The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly." John McCain, conceding defeat, November 4, 2008.

"How are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?"  Sarah Palin, October 31, 2008.

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America." Sarah Palin, October 16, 2008.

"I love to bash the media all the time." John McCain, October 2, 2008.

"I do not complain about the media." John McCain, October 1, 2008.

"You are interviewing the greatest free trader you will ever interview, and the greatest deregulator you will ever interview." John McCain, May 29, 2007.

"The fact is, it was the wrong thing to do, and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so." John McCain, on his Keating 5 role and the savings and loan scandal, December 12, 1999.

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong." John McCain, September 15, 2008.

"I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." Sarah Palin, June 8, 2008.

"However, in flight school in Pensacola, he did drive a Corvette and date a girl who worked in a bar as an exotic dancer under the name of Marie, the Flame of Florida."  Fred Thompson, on John McCain, September 2, 2008.

"As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" Governor Sarah Palin, McCain VP choice, August 1, 2008

"I don’t see America having problems." President Bush, August 10, 2008.

"I don’t think our campaign is negative in the slightest." John McCain, August 1, 2008.

"We need to drill more, drill now, and pay less at the pump." John McCain, August 1, 2008.

"There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may - and I emphasize may - have come from Iraq." John McCain, October 18, 2001.

"What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" Monica Goodling, interview question for DOJ applicants, reported July 29, 2008.

"The disappointment doesn’t necessarily go to the attorney general." Dana Perino, on President Bush's reaction to the DOJ report on illegal discrimination in hiring by Alberto Gonzales' aide Monica Goodling, July 30, 2008.

"What's interesting, however, is that people are plenty wise about how to conserve. You're making the choices about whether you want to drive a little extra more or not drive extra more." President Bush, July 29, 2008.

"F**king stupid."  David Kilcullen, aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the decision to invade Iraq, July 28, 2008.

"I've met too many times with him. And I know what they want." John McCain, rejecting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a U.S. timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, July 21, 2008.

"I said we would have an easy victory. We did."  John McCain, on the war in Iraq, July 28, 2008.

"No regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences." President Bush, on the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, July 25, 2008.

"There is nothing that’s off the table." John McCain, on the possibility of raising payroll taxes for Social Security, July 28, 2008.

"No new taxes."  John McCain, February 17, 2008.

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk ---that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover." President Bush, reported July 22, 2008.

"If they were to say, leave, we would leave."  President Bush, on a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, May 24, 2007.

"I know how to win wars." John McCain, July 15, 2008.

"Keep up the fight." AP DC bureau chief Ron Fournier to Karl Rove, on the Pat Tillman friendly fire episode, 2004.

"I regret the breezy nature of the correspondence." AP DC bureau chief Ron Fournier regarding his 2004 email to Karl Rove on the Pat Tillman friendly fire episode, July 14, 2008.

"I'm drawing a blank." South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, asked if there "significant economic differences" between John McCain and President Bush, July 13, 2008.

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."  President Bush, to the assembled leaders of the G8, July 10, 2008.

"Amigo, amigo!" President Bush, greeting Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish, July 10, 2008.

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession...We have sort of become a nation of whiners." Phil Gramm, McCain adviser and UBS vice chairman, July 9, 2008.

"I would imagine we are." John McCain, asked if the nation is in recession, July 8, 2008.

"I want Democrats to be back in the majority in Washington and elect a Democratic president in 2008. This man and his supporters will frustrate and defeat our hopes of doing that." Joe Lieberman, current McCain backer on his 2006 opponent Ned Lamont, July 6, 2006.

"I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein." Condoleezza Rice, July 3, 2008.

"It never would have happened in the Republican party. Republicans are much more open to strong women." Bill Kristol, on the claim that Hillary Clinton was the victim of sexism during the Democratic primaries, June 29, 2008.

"John Kerry with a tan." Grover Norquist, on Barack Obama, June 27, 2008.

"I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House." President Bush, to Philippine President Arroyo, June 24, 2008.

"It was special treatment." Scott McClellan, on President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, June 20, 2008.

"Everybody hates George Bush." Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), reported May 25, 2008.

"It's not a timetable; it's victory. It's victory, which I have always predicted. I'm not putting a date on it. It could be next month, it could be next year, it could be three years from now." John McCain, on the U.S. leaving Iraq, May 15, 2008.

"I would hope that we could bring them all home." John McCain, on U.S. troops in Iraq, January 2005.

"As soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be." John McCain, on the U.S. military presence in Iraq, January  2005.

"I'm afraid that the label occupation sticks to us even to this day, although the occupation ended in June of 2004." Paul Wolfowitz, April 28, 2008.

"It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, its nonsense."  John McCain, on endorser Pastor John Hagee's comments about Hurricane Katrina being divine retribution for New Orleans' sins, April 24, 2008.

"Maybe I'm digging for the pony here." John McCain, on his upbeat assessment of the latest fighting in Iraq, April 15, 2008.

"It simply was an aircraft, residue of the aircraft and residue of the materials used to build this building." Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), on his refusal to support federal funds for World Trade Center rescue workers in New York, April 1, 2008.

"I must say, I'm a little envious." President Bush, to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, March 13, 2008.

"I'm just a simple president." President Bush, March 13, 2008.

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf." Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), March 13, 2008.

"I'm under strict instructions, and have been from the beginning, to not talk about the dollar, and I'm not going to get fired to satisfy your question." Dana Perino, March 12, 2008.

"I disagree with what the majority of the American people want." John McCain, March 10, 2008.

"Well, I reject his disavowal." Rep. Steve King (R-IA), on learning that John McCain disavowed his comments that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Obama won, March 9, 2008.

"There's problems in America with safe neighborhoods as we well know." John McCain, on Iraq, March 8, 2008.

"I would say that if Mike McConnell worked for me, I'd fire him."  Retired Lt. Gen. Harry Soyster, on DNI's defense of waterboarding, March 8, 2008.

"He said he was having a hot dog, so I had a hot dog." John McCain, on lunch with President Bush, March 7, 2008.

"It's clear our economy has slowed." President Bush, March 7, 2008.

"I call them evil because if you murder the innocent to achieve a political objective, you're evil." President Bush, March 6, 2008.

"I believe we ought to say thank you." President Bush, on telecom firms that complied with his demands for electronic surveillance of Americans without warrants, March 3, 2008.

"I sort of liken it to a grieving process. You come to acceptance." Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), on his endorsement of John McCain, March 2, 2008.

"It's not like I'm some homophobe." Mike Huckabee, March 1, 2008.

"The truth is that political reconciliation in Iraq is going better there than it is here at home because of better security." Senator Lindsay Graham, February 26, 2008.

"[Democrats would put] a bullet right in the hearts of our troops who are there." Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, on Iraq funding bill, February 26, 2008.

"My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years." John McCain, February 24, 2008.

"I believe 50 years from now, people will look back at this period of time, and say, thank God the United States of America did not lose its faith in the transformative power of liberty." President Bush, on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, February 25, 2008.

"I think that people will look back at the Iraq war and say 'Thank God, he had the courage to do what he did.'" Karl Rove, February 18, 2008.

"U.S. solutions should not be imposed on African leaders." President Bush, February 19, 2008.

"I think history will prove me right." President Bush, on his efforts to rid the world of tyranny, February 19, 2008.

"I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq." Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), February 16, 2008.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." John McCain, reported June 25, 1998.

"White women are a problem[...]But we all live with them." Bill Kristol, February 3, 2008.

"We haven't violated anybody's civil liberties." Vice President Cheney, January 31, 2008.

"The beauty of America is that a person can come and even make a disruption, and you know what, that person is not going to be taken out and shot." Mike Huckabee, January 31, 2008.

"I would feel that it was." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, asked if he could consider waterboarding torture if it were done to him, January 30, 2008.

"I don’t know whether he acted in violation of statutes." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, regarding President Bush and FISA, January 30, 2008.

"As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my life." President Bush, January 29, 2008.

"Yeah, there’s a bubble but life’s pretty comfortable inside the bubble." President Bush, January 28, 2008.

"I didn’t say I wouldn’t answer it. I didn’t say that I would." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, on the question as to whether waterboarding is torture, January 26, 2008.

"He'll be gotten by a president." President Bush, on whether Osama Bin Laden will be captured, January 24, 2008.

"Actually, I don't know where you got that quote from. I'm very well versed in economics." John McCain, asked about his 2005 quote below, January 24, 2008.

"The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." John McCain, December 17, 2007.

"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." John McCain, November 2005.

"Well, I'm not concerned about the voters." Mitt Romney, asked to tell Florida voters ho  much of his own fortune he had spent on his campaign there, January 24, 2008.

"Just because you didn't find every Easter egg didn't mean it wasn’t planted...good chance they may have gone to Jordan. We don’t know where they are." Mike Huckabee, on Iraq WMD, January 24, 2008.

"It's possible. It's entirely possible." Mitt Romney, on whether Iraq WMD's had been moved to Syria, May 7, 2007.

"We think we won’t know that we’ve reached a turning point until we’re six months past it." General David Petraeus, January 22, 2008.

"So what am I supposed to do? Go in the fetal position because of your polls?" President Bush, January 16, 2008.

"What's a Kurd, anyway?" Norman Podhoretz, to Jeffrey Goldberg in 2003, reported January 16, 2008.

"As soon as they put those cameras away, I’m going to flip you the bird." John Boehner (R-OH), to Democrat Steny Hoyer, January 15, 2008.

"I'm sure people view me as a war monger and I view myself as peacemaker." President Bush, January 15, 2008.

"I think that was one evil son of a bitch." Glenn Beck, on FDR, January 15, 2008.

"But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards." Mike Huckabee, January 14, 2008.

"Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture." Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, January 13, 2008.

"Everybody gets it wrong at the beginning of a war." Tony Snow, former Bush White House press secretary, January 11, 2008.

"It could easily be that, absolutely." President Bush, asked if the U.S. presence in Iraq could last another 10 years, January 11, 2008.

"If I were running for office at this point, I'd be saying, 'Vote for me. I’m gonna be an agent of change.'" President Bush, January 11, 2008.

"I don't think Americans are concerned if we’re there for one hundred years or a thousand years or ten thousand years." John McCain, January 6, 2008.

"If I were some of these guys, I'd have to be sitting in a warm tub of water with razor blades." Mike Huckabee, on his GOP rivals, October 10, 2007.

"He [God] told me some things about the election, but I’m not going to say." Pat Robertson, January 3, 2008.

"God's going to give us China. And China will be the largest Christian nation on the face of the earth. They’re going to come to Jesus." Pat Robertson, January 3, 2008.

"We also love a president who has kept us safe these last six years." Mitt Romney, January 3, 2008.

"President Bush didn't read it for four years; I don't know why I should read it in four hours." Mike Huckabee on his ignorance of the Iran NIE, December 31, 2007.

"I don't know that you'd put him in prison." Mike Huckabee, on punishing doctors who perform abortions, December 30, 2007.

"We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country." Mike Huckabee, December 28, 2007.

"We need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people [Muslims] 'til we defeat them or chase them back to their caves, or in other words, get rid of them."  John Deady, Co-Chair for New Hampshire’s Veterans for Rudy, December 28, 2007.

"This is what happens…You vote for me, you live. You don’t…there you go." Mike Huckabee, on shooting pheasant during recent hunting trip, December 27, 2007.

"I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city [DC] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."  Ron Paul, from 1992 article, reported December 26, 2007.

"He voted against the Bush tax cuts. That's failing 'Reagan-101.'" Mitt Romney, attacking John McCain, December 22, 2007.

"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Mitt Romney, during run for U.S. Senate, 1994.

"The inmates there were getting a whole lot better treatment than my prisoners in Arkansas...If anything, it’s too nice." Mike Huckabee, on Guantanamo, December 21, 2007.

"It's what I do during my presidency. I go around spreading good will." President Bush, December 20, 2007.

"There's not much that entices about the job. There's no money in it, no privacy, no big houses, and from an ego standpoint, it does nothing for me." Justice Clarence Thomas, December 18, 2007.

"It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, 'when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." GOP Candidate Ron Paul, on opponent Mike Huckabee using the image of a cross in a TV ad, December 18, 2007.

"We have fabulous health care in America, just so you know." President Bush, December 17, 2007.

"Keep it up. We need you guys." President Bush, to WMAL General Manager Chris Berry, whose station features such conservative hosts as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, December 13, 2007.

"I don’t care what this latest NIE says." Fred Thompson, December 12, 2007.

"There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke." Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), December 12, 2007.

"It will be interesting to know what the true facts are." President Bush, on the  CIA tapes case, December 11, 2007.

"I doubt I'd be standing here if I hadn't quit drinking whiskey, and beer and wine and all that." President Bush, December 11, 2007.

"It'll be interesting to know what the true facts are." President Bush, on the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation videotapes, December 11, 2007.

"'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?" Dana Perino, White House press secretary on the Cuban missile crisis, December 8, 2007.

"Once a Bushie, always a Bushie." Dana Perino, December 9. 2007.

"People were saying, 'It was like George Washington,' 'It was the Gettysburg Address." Ann Romney, on her husband's speech on Faith in America, December 6, 2007.

"OK, look. I can see where you could see that the president could have been more precise in that language. But the president was being truthful." Dana Perino, on President Bush's assertion he learned about the new Iran NIE the previous week, December 6, 2007.

"No." Mike Huckabee, asked if he had heard of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, December 4, 2007.

"It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career." Rudy Giuliani, December 4, 2007.

"Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers." Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on casualties in Iraq, November 28, 2007.

"Suddenly I seem to be in the cross hairs of every predator who is out there.  To me that seems to be a good sign of life." Mike Huckabee, trying to deflect questions about his role in the parole of convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who later raped and murdered another woman, October 31, 2007.

"No - I’ve never - nobody ever told me that."  President Bush, asked if his intelligence advisors asked him to tone down his World War III rhetoric towards Iran after seeing the new NIE, December 4, 2007.

"It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career." Rudy Giuliani, December 4, 2007.

"No one is perfect." Alberto Gonzales, November 19, 2007.

"Mr. President, you are such a man." Frances Townsend, comparing President Bush to George Washington, in her resignation letter, November 19, 2007.

"In our opinion, no."  Dana Perino, White House press secretary, asked if it is ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism, November 5, 2007.

"Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed." Donald Rumsfeld, from May 2004 memo, reported November 1, 2007.

"That's one way to ensure that I am relevant." President Bush, explaining his veto of S-CHIP, October 17, 2007.

"I gave my blood for the Republican Party in New York." Rudy Giuliani, October 16, 2007.

"I hate all Iranians." Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates, to visiting British MPs, reported September 29, 2007.

"I remind people that, like when I’m with, Condi, I say she’s the Ph.D. and I’m the C student and just look at who’s the president and who’s the adviser."  President Bush, September 20, 2007.

"I don't know." Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asked if invading Iraq was a good idea, September 19, 2007.

"The cockiest guy I have ever met in my life." Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, on George W. Bush, September 17, 2007.

"One, I’m too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me." President Bush, on serving in Iraq, September 14, 2007.

"I learned early on that if you don’t want your memos to get you in trouble some day, just don’t write any." Vice President Cheney, September 14, 2007.

"Sir, I don't know, actually." General David Petraeus, asked by Sen. John Warner if the strategy in Iraq is making America safer, September 11, 2007.

"It has not worked out as we had hoped." General David Petraeus, on political progress in Iraq, September 7, 2007.

"There are some people who might try to deride this trip as a photo opportunity." Dana Perino, on President Bush's trip to Iraq, September 3, 2007.

"This is news to me." Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on President Bush's $50 billion Iraq funding request, August 29, 2007.

"The fact that we're doing it this [discussing NSA domestic surveillance] way means that some Americans are going to die." Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, August 22, 2007.

"No, I can't. I can barely speak English." President Bush, asked if he can speak French, August 11, 2007.

"Mr. Attorney General, do you expect us to believe that?" Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, July 24, 2007.

"He's a good man, we're gonna get him some new legs." President Bush, discussing an Iraq veteran and amputee, July 20, 2007.

"I'm pleased to say that I am not an expert in prostitution law." Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), asked about her GOP colleague David Vitter, July 17, 2007.

"I don't believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own." Governor George W. Bush, 1999.

"Now is not the time to go in the fetal position and whine." Karl Rove, to audience at Marquette County Republicans Reagan Dinner, June 23, 2007.

"If it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo - not tomorrow, this afternoon." Colin Powell, June 10, 2007.

"I think some people see Guantanamo as a source of America's arrogance, and I see it as a source of America's resolve." Mitt Romney, June 5, 2007.

"Does it solve the problem for the woman that's been raped?" Sam Brownback (R-KS), on his opposition to abortion for rape victims, June 9, 2007.

"Homosexuality isn't natural or healthy." Dr. James Holsinger Jr., Bush nominee for Surgeon General, in 1991 paper, reported June 7, 2007.

"I'm sorry it's come to be, but that's what happens in life. We'll move on." President Bush, on the resignation of Tony Blair, June 7, 2007.

"Sir, that's the design." Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, on National security Adviser Stephen Hadley having no role with regards to Iraq and Afghanistan, June 7, 2007.

"I don’t believe it undercuts their morale. and, in fact, that’s what we’ve sworn to protect and defend." Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, on domestic debate over Iraq war strategy and funding, June 7, 2007.

"During the review, I registered concerns that a military 'surge' would likely have only temporary and localized effects unless it were accompanied by counterpart 'surges' by the Iraqi government and the other, nonmilitary agencies of the U.S. government."  Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, June 7, 2007.

"What is taking place in Anbar is almost breathtaking." General David Petraeus, on progress in Iraq, June 8, 2007.

"We haven’t started the surge - the full surge - yet. So let me have a few months." General David Petraeus, June 5, 2007.

"We're only about two months into the surge." General David Petraeus, April 25, 2007.

"I don’t see an end game, as it were, in sight." U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, June 6, 2007.

"CIA clearly didn't really give a shit about keeping her identity secret if she's going to work at f**king Langley...I call bullshit on that, I don't care what they say." MSNBC host and son of Scooter Libby Defense Fund adviser Tucker Carlson, on outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's confirmed covert status, June 6, 2007.

"For [Libby prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald, to get on his high horse, it’s disgusting and he should be ashamed of himself." Richard Carlson, Scooter Libby Defense Fund adviser and father of MSNBC host Tucker Carlson, May 29, 2007.

"Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man." Vice President Cheney, on the sentencing of Scooter Libby, June 5, 2007.

"Well, it's a setting that's almost a null set. Which is, if we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, and if he had complied with the United Nations resolutions to allow IAEA inspectors into his country, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Mitt Romney, asked by Sean Hannity if he would have supported war in Iraq knowing what he knows now, May 8, 2007

"Well, the question is kind of a non sequitur, if you will. And what I mean by that -- or a null set -- and that is that if you're saying, let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opened up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction...we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in." Mitt Romney, asked by Wolf Blitzer if he would have supported war in Iraq knowing what he knows now, June 5, 2007.

"Strong, clear, gives good soundbite and has shoulders you could land a 737 on." Roger Simon of Politico.com on Mitt Romney, June 5, 2007.

"I would certainly not send him to the United Nations." Tommy Thompson, asked what role George W. Bush would play in a Thompson administration, June 5, 2007.

"I'd tell George W. Bush never to darken the door of the White House." Rep, Tom Tancredo, asked what role George W. Bush would play in a Tancredo administration, June 5, 2007.

"Mr. Comey's testimony related to a highly classified program which the president confirmed to the American people sometime ago." Alberto Gonzales, on revelations by Comey on March 2004 confrontation with Gonzales at John Ashcroft's bedside, June 5, 2007.

"There has not been any serious disagreement about the program that the president has confirmed." Alberto Gonzales, February 6, 2006.

"The worst terrorist we had in Iraq was a guy named Abu Musab al Zarqawi." Vice President Cheney, claiming Saddam harbored the terrorist the Senate Intelligence Committee report conclusively showed Hussein was trying to capture, June 4, 2007.

"I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There's a big difference. Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time." Tom Delay, on the difference between his adultery and that of Newt Gingrich, June 4, 2007.

"God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party." Tom Delay, June 4, 2007.

"Well, the whitest man in America, who is the black man’s best friend, is now being alleged to be a racist for having invented something called ooga booga fever." Fox's John Gibson, describing himself, June 4, 2007.

"It sounds like Abu Ghraib." Fox Morning show host Greg Kelly, on Paris Hilton not being allowed to use her cell phone while it jail, June 4, 2007.

"Russia is not our enemy." President Bush, to Russian President Vladimir Putin at G8 Summit, June 4, 2007.

"It would be funny if it was not so sad." Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Bush's proposed missile defense system in Czech Republic and Poland, June 4, 2007.

"I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul. I knew that President Putin was a man with whom I could work." President Bush, on Vladimir Putin, November 15, 2001.

"John Glenn - who was a wonderful man, but not somebody normally you would think capable of being a real partisan spearchucker." Brit Hume, June 3, 2007.

"Lots of things." Fred Thompson, likely GOP White House contender asked by NBC's Tim Russert what he'd do as President, June 3, 2007.

"No." Fred Thompson, likely GOP White House contender asked by NBC's Tim Russert if he would elaborate on what those "lots of things" would be, June 3, 2007.

"The government is not functioning. It’s not getting the job done. Republicans need to confront this reality." Newt Gingrich, on the Bush administration, June 3, 2007.

"If the charges against Congressman Jefferson are true, he should be expelled from the House of Representatives, or he should resign to spare his constituents and colleagues any further indignity." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on whether indicted Democratic Congressman William Jefferson should resign, June 4, 2006.

"That's a decision that he and his family are going to have to make." House Minority Leader John Boehner, asked by Fox's Chris Wallace if indicted Republican Congressman Bob Ney should resign, September 17, 2006.

"The country owes Tom a great debt of gratitude for helping lead America in a new direction...He has served our nation with integrity and honor, and I'm honored to call him my colleague and friend." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on indicted Republican Congressman Tom Delay, April 3, 2006.

"I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly." Dennis Milligan, chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, June 3, 2007.

"You think she thinks she works the pole?" MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, on Fred Thompson's supposed "trophy wife," June 2, 2007.

"I intend to spend the next year and a half in a sprint to the finish line." Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, facing imminent no-confidence vote, June 1, 2007.

"I think we've had a very great week this week." White House spokesperson Dana Perino, June 1, 2007.

"Well, there's too many to count now." Outgoing White House communications director Dan Bartlett, asked what mistakes the White House would like to "do over," June 1, 2007.

"I am the president!" President Bush, while thumping his chest, reported May 31, 2007.

"He’s got the jaw going on, the little gray thing in there. And I think that means a lot in America." Bill O'Reilly, May 31, 2007.

"The Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this homosexual game of 'house.'" Stephen Bennett, spokesman for Concerned Women for America, on the birth of Mary Cheney's son, May 30, 2007.

"I'm not an architect of anything." Paul Wolfowitz, former Iraq war architect at the Pentagon, May 30, 2007.

"I'm deeply concerned about America losing its soul...if we don't solve the problem it's going to affect America. It will affect our economy and it will affect our soul." President Bush, on importance of his immigration bill, May 29, 2007.

"Disagreeing with your government is not unpatriotic and most certainly should not be a crime in any country, especially a democracy." Condi Rice, May 28, 2007.

"I think he's crazy." Ronald Reagan, on Rudy Giuliani, reported May 28, 2007.

"I recognize there are a handful there, or some, who just say, 'Get out, you know, it's just not worth it. Let's just leave.' I strongly disagree with that attitude. Most Americans do as well." President Bush, contradicting polls showing that 63% of Americans want to withdraw from Iraq by 2008, May 28, 2007.

"I told my press secretary when she was asked that...just better play it close to our vest. So, I guess I won’t answer your question." Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), asked whether he still supports Alberto Gonzales, May 27, 2007.

"By September, when General Petraeus is to make a report, I think most of the people in Congress believe, unless something extraordinary occurs, that we should be on a move to draw those surge numbers down." Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), May 27, 2007.

"The handwriting is on the wall. We are headed in a different direction, in the fall, in Iraq. And the president is going to be the one to lead the way." Mitch McConnell (R-KY), May 26, 2007.

"Oh my God, is that right?...It’s a nice day, the weather's nice." John McCain, on missing the equivalent of six weeks worth of Senate votes while campaigning, May 26, 2007.

"Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"Nobody can promise us we won't be hit again." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again." Vice President Cheney, on why Americans should vote for George W. Bush and not John Kerry, September 7, 2004.

"This investigation is taking a long time, kind of being drug out, I suspect...for political reasons." President Bush, on U.S. attorneys purge inquiries, May 25, 2007.

"If there's wrongdoing, it will be taken care of." President Bush, on U.S. attorneys purge, May 24, 2007.

"It's their government's choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave." President Bush, on Iraq,  May 24, 2007.

"We’re not leaving [Iraq] so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake." President Bush, on Iraq, August 21, 2006.

"They are a threat to your children, David." President Bush, on the enemy in Iraq, to NBC's David Gregory, May 24 2007.

"This notion about how this isn’t a war on terror in my view is naive." President Bush, May 23, 2007.

"We actually misnamed the war on terror." President Bush, August 16, 2004.

"After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on?" House Minority Leader John Boehner, on Iraq war funding, May 24, 2007.

"I want more babies. More babies. We love babies." Leslie Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, speaking out against a new contraceptive, May 24, 2007.

"I promised the President today that I wouldn't say anything bad about...this piece of shit bill." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on the immigration bill, May 23, 2007.

"It is a very careful process, and not one that's used indiscriminately or just for political purposes." Trent Lott (R-MS), on President Bush's declassification of two-year old classified report days before war funding vote hoping to show Al Qaeda role in Iraq, May 23, 2007.

"The statements made by the attorney general during this meeting were intended only to comfort her in a very difficult period." DOJ spokesman Brian Roehrkrasse, on whether Alberto Gonzales tried to influence the testimony of Monica Goodling during a meet with her, May 23, 2007.

"There not only is no evidence of wrongdoing, but there is no allegation of any wrongdoing on your part." Rep. Steve King (R-IA), to Monica Goodling, during House hearing in which she admitted violating the Hatch Act, May 23, 2007.

"I believe I crossed the line, but I didn’t mean to." Monica Goodling, May 23, 2007.

"I don't think that I could have done it more than 50 times, but I don't know." Monica Goodling, asked how often she considered political affiliations in hiring of career DOJ personnel, May 23, 2007.

"I stand by Al Gonzales." President Bush, May 21, 2007.

"I don’t know if they're going to do a reprinting of the book to try to get the facts straight." Tony Snow, on Al Gore's book correctly identifying President Bush's deceptions in the run-up to the war in Iraq, May 23, 2007.

"I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave." Howard Zinsmeister, Bush domestic policy adviser, May 21, 2007.

"Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn." John McCain, on Mitt Romney's immigration stand, May 21, 2007.

"I do not believe in teaching about sex or contraception in public schools." Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR), May 21, 2007.

"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created." Newt Gingrich, delivering commencement address at the late Falwell's Liberty University, May 19, 2007.

"Iraq has not been a big thing in our district." Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), May 19, 2007.

"I'd rather trade places with Jose Padilla." Viet Dinh, ormer senior Justice official under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, about replacing Paul McNulty as Alberto Gonzales' deputy attorney general, May 19, 2007.

"I don’t have confidence in Gonzales." Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), May 18, 2007.

"The president might decide that the current leadership remaining at DOJ is doing more harm than good." Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), May 18, 2007.

"If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!" Bill Keller, host of the Florida-based Live Prayer TV, May 11, 2007.

"I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008.  My conscience and my moral convictions will allow me to do nothing else." James Dobson, May 18, 2007.

"As conservative Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have probably irreconcilable differences on life and family and that kind of thing...I couldn't support him for president." Jerry Falwell, on Rudy Giuliani, April 17, 2006.

"Falwell was a perfected Christian. He exuded Christian love for all men." Ann Coulter, May 16, 2007.

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively t