[PW] ? Notable Quotations of 2007 (Quotation Query #644)

[John Henderson]

Here are a few suggestions, in chronological order, mostly political.
John Henderson
Ithaca College Library
jhenderson at ithaca.edu

"I swear by my people and my country that will I not rest my arm or  
my soul as we build a new political system, a new social system, a  
new economic system. I swear by Christ, the greatest socialist in  
history, I will follow the wonderful mandates of this constitution,  
even if it costs me my own life and my own peace. Country, socialism  
or death, I swear it."
- Hugo Chavez, inaugural address in Caracas, Venezuela, January 10,  
2007.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is  
articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,  
that's a storybook, man."
- Joe Biden, quoted in New York Observer, February 7, 2007

"I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have  
to go into rehab if you use the word faggot."
- Ann Coulter, in speech at the 34th annual Conservative Political  
Action Conference, March 1, 2007 [I might also suggest her quote  
about converting the Jews, but I think one quote from her a year is  
enough.]

"I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and  
that we should not condone immoral acts."
&
"I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that  
says it is okay to be immoral in any way."
- General Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,,  
quoted in Chicago Tribune,  March 12, 2007.

  "I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter  
pretty much all my life."
- Mitt Romney, on campaign in Keene, N. H., April 4, 2007

IMUS: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and—
McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.
IMUS: That's some nappy-headed hos there. I'm gonna tell you that  
now, man, that's some—woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all  
look cute, you know, so, like—kinda like—I don't know.
- Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, on Imus in the Morning, April 4, 2007

  "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who  
has a 9 percent approval rating." --Senate Majority Leader Harry  
Reid, on Vice President Dick Cheney, quoted in New York Times, April  
27, 2007

"And I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to."
- Christopher Hitchens, on Rev. Jerry Falwell, in interview on CNN  
with Anderson Cooper, May 15, 2007

  "All these things give me kind of a gut feeling, not that I have a  
specific threat that I have in mind right now, but we are entering a  
period of increased vulnerability."
- Michael Chertoff, quoted in Chicago Tribune, July 10, 2007

  "Thank you all very much for coming out today."
&
"I have a wide stance."
- Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), press conference, August 28, 2007(?)

Your hypocrisy is so vast that if we could somehow use it to fill the  
ranks in Iraq you could realize your dream and keep us fighting there  
until the year 3000.
- Keith Obermann, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, September 20, 2007

  "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, at Columbia University,  
September 24, 2007 [the translation was later corrected to indicated  
what he said  was closer to "In Iran, we don't have a homosexual  
problem, like in your country."

  "The phony soldiers."
- Rush Limbaugh, during broadcast of September 26, 2007
[quote in context: Caller, Mike from Olympia: "No, it's not, and  
what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like  
to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the  
media." Limbaugh: "The phony soldiers."

"He likes to talk about the fact that he read three George Washington  
biographies last year, he says, 'I think theyíre still trying to  
figure out number one, I think itís going to be a while before they  
get to number 43.'"
- Tony Snow, on the Late Show with David Letterman, about President  
Bush, October 4, 2007

"The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view,  
is that he keeps being right."
- Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2007

"Dumbledore is gay, actually."
- J. K. Rowling,  Carnegie Hall in New York, October 18, 2007

"You don't have money to fund the war on children, but you're going  
to spend it to blow up innocent people? If he can get enough kids to  
grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off  
for the president's amusement."
- Rep. Peter Stark (D-CA), from the floor of the House of  
Representatives, October 18, 2007

Touting his accomplishments as mayor Tuesday while on the campaign  
trail in New Hampshire, Giuliani crowed, "I took a city that was  
known for pornography and licked it to a large extent, so I have my  
own set of qualifications."
- "Campaign Takeout" New York Daily News, Wednesday, October 24th 2007.

"Because you banned my books, every kid in that county will read  
them, every single one of them. Because book banners are invariably  
idiots, they don’t know how the world works — but writers and English  
teachers do."
- Pat Conroy, in a letter to The Charleston Gazette, October 24, 2007  
[on the campaign to pull his works from a Nitro [W.va.] High reading  
list] http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2007102326

"I don't think this place is worth another soldier's life."
- Sgt. Victor Alarcon, quoted  in Washington Post, October 27, 2007

"In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in  
the all-boys club of presidential politics."
- Hillary Clinton, addressing a gathering at Wellesley College,  
November 1, 2007

"My first impression of George W. Bush was one of total self- 
confidence. He is quite simply the cockiest guy I have ever met in my  
life."
&
"Even now, George will be the first to admit that he's a 'windshield  
cowboy,' more comfortable driving his pickup truck around Crawford  
than he is on the back of a horse."
- Mexican President Vicente Fox, Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith,  
and Dreams of a Mexican President. Viking, 2007


Quote from previous year revived for 2007:
"He isn't very smart, is he?" Nixon asked.
"He squeezed Gurney," Buzhardt said, referring to Sen. Edward Gurney,  
R-Fla. "Not extremely so, but --"
"But he's friendly," Nixon said.
"But he's friendly," Buzhardt agreed.
  - from Nixon tapes, as reported by the AP, July. 9, 2007



On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:


For my annual list of "notable quotations of the year" for the  
Reuters news service, I would welcome any suggestions of famous or  
otherwise notable quotations uttered or published in 2007.   
Quotations can come from politics, popular culture, sports, or any  
other field.

Fred Shapiro


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