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Kathy Griffin

Kathleen "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960, in Oak Park, Illinois) is an Emmy-winning American stand-up comedian and actress. She has also been a voice actor and a red carpet commentator. Griffin has proclaimed herself a "D-list celebrity", and starred on her reality television series "Kathy Griffin - My Life on the D-List" from 2005 until 2010, for which she won an Emmy in both 2007 and 2008. Much of her stand-up humour is derived from her embellished encounters with notable celebrities.

Quotes

 * Can you believe this shit? Hell has frozen over. Now, a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is- suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now!
 * 59th Emmy Awards acceptance speech, 8 September 2007

 * 4th booster f**kers. Oh, and CVS gave us EIGHT free Covid tests for getting boosted!
 * Twitter, 12:54 PM · Mar 26, 2022

Hot Cup Of Talk (1998)

 * You know what's great about my mom? She compulsively swears and doesn't know it. Like...I mean, she doesn't have Tourettes. I could never get that lucky. Can you imagine how it would be to have parents with Tourettes? I would be in heaven...but anyway. That is one funny fucking disease.

 * Have you guys noticed that Madonna is British now? OK, let's talk about her lineage for a minute. Raised in Michigan, moved to New York, is British. She started turning British like at the Golden Globes and she was doing the interviews and she says "telly" instead of "television" and she uses the word "actually" way too much and then she's also sorta bringing her voice down to a register around here (brings her voice down) and she's being interviewed for the Golden Globes and she's got whole, you know, crazy hair that everybody hated and everybody has and they were saying, "Well, Madonna, we're so glad to have you at the Golden Globes." (speaks in Madonna British accent) "Well, actually, it is more fun to come here than watch it on the telly". You know. Look, I'm from the midwest- its a TV.

 * There's something about Shania Twain I just don't trust. I don't know, I can't put my finger...she's just too thin. I like my country singers to have the big hair and the big ass.

 * (describing Celine Dion's family of 14 siblings) You know there is just issues and boundries and secrets. The name of my book.

 * She (Mariah Carey) could not fuck more black rappers. Oh, yeah. If your name is "Puff" or "Daddy," she'll fuck you.

 * She (Monica Lewinsky) is the kinda girl who'll blow a guy and call you and tell you all about it.

 * I don't know about you, but I fucked a midget. I have secrets.

 * So, Hanson, which one of you boys is coming home with me tonight? (greeting the band Hanson)
 * Kathy Griffin: Hot Cup Of Talk (1998)

The D-list (2004)

 * Don't you love the new crazy Britney, she's our new Liza.

 * Huh, guess ah shouldn't huh did it. (imitating Britney's 55-hour husband Jason Allen Alexander) Come on, Mr. Britney. Grammar, grammar.

 * I had a run in with Whitney Houston, or as I call her, "Cracky." Allegedly.

 * I actually share one thing with Whitney Houston, which is, I also have sweating issues.

 * Apparently, Courtney Love was at Whitney's "intervention". And when Courtney Love is telling you, you're hittin the pipe too hard, well, things are bad! They're really bad!

 * (Recalling her conversation with Anna Nicole Smith eating lunch) All of a sudden, she takes a bite of something and she goes like this (makes a disgusted face) "I don't lahk it." I go, "What's the matter, honey?" and she goes "I don't lahk it. I thought it was mashed pataters." PA-TAY-TERS! I heard it with my own ears. PATATERS. Britney probably wants to marry her now. So, anyway, I looked on her plate and said, "No, it's polenta" and, I swear to God, she looks at me and goes "Pimento?" I said, "No, that's an olive. "Polenta"- it's like mushed-up cornmeal." She goes, "I don't lahk it. I thought..." Mashed pateters, I got it.

 * (Recalling her speech at an AMFAR event that was intended to be a parody of Sharon Stone's earlier speech, reciting the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine".) Ladies and gentlemen, I am so honored to be here and Sharon spoke so eloquently before that it reminded me of something I once read a long time ago. You ain't nothin but a hound dog. Oh, gosh, that reminds me, many years ago I was walking down the street in Memphis and I said, "Whoa- that's Elvis"...and I fucked him. I fucked him hard. I did, I did. Sure, he called me 'Cilla the whole time, but I didn't mind. (sobbing) Cryin' all the time, well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

 * I saw Courtney Love have one of her heroin fits....and break a guitar. So I pulled up a chair. What? You gotta be ring-side!

 * When Sharon Stone asks you to do something, you just just do it. If Sharon Stone asked me to eat her poo, I'd be like "yeah, what's a good time for you?".(Pretending to eat poo) "This is really good poo Sharon, thanks".(To the audience) Stop picturing it...........and come back!

 * Uma Thurman is there.......with her big bag of BS!

Allegedly (2004)

 * Let's just say I'm gonna be so politically incorrect, you might even get sued for being in the audience.

 * I am going after everybody. I'm going after Paltrow. Fuck her. Fuck her!

 * I saw Larry King and he was interviewing Pam Anderson. And it was really fun because Pam Anderson...remember when Pam Anderson did her hepatitis tour? Remember when she got hepatitis and then she did a press tour about it, because she is very conscious of woman's issues, and she went on Larry King and she's talking about it. Oh, and by the way, she said she got it from Tommy Lee, which, of course, she did. And Tommy Lee said she got it from a door knob. And...I'm sure that's at least what she got from Tommy Lee. I saw Tommy Lee at an award show two weeks before, I got crabs just from looking at him. So, anyway, she's talking a minute and then she had had her boobs reduced, you know, she keeps getting reduced and bigger and stuff. And then, Larry has the balls to say to her (imitating Larry King), "Aren't you afraid of that plastic surgery?" and, in the meantime, his ears meeting at the back of his neck.

 * Alright, Macy Gray.....what exactly is wrong with her? She, for sure has a little mental retardation. Allegedly!

 * And yet she has the fucked-up baby voice! And is there anything more charming than a grown woman with a baby voice? Mmmm, yummy! I'm hard thinking about it.

 * And she's like "Angie Harmon is here"!! So I was like, well let me...well fuck me then and I ran as fast as I could!

 * Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like "I'm out"?

 * Donna (Karan), you have huge jugs, you could totally be a manager at Hooters!

 * Nothing gets me more nervous than white people who talk black.......I mean, it's fun on "Ricki Lake", but in real life......

 * She calls me up and says "Guess what - we're going to the Persian Gulf for Christmas". Immediately I put my hands over my clitoris. I don't want to insult the Muslim culture. It's such a wonderful culture for women - unless you have a clitoris and you're 13 cause they're hacking that shit off!

 * I love my clit. I use it every day. Not a day goes by when I don't use it for something.

 * When you perform for the Army, they want dick jokes and they want em now!

 * There were two cheerleaders, and their job was to basically go out in skimpy outfits and say hi to the guys........and some of the ladies, if you know what I'm saying.

 * So then, she looks at Brooke (Shields)'s Dad with his newer wife, and she's like "So, now you're with my ex-husband. Well, congratulations, you can have him"! It was fucking on!!

 * When I go to a wedding, I live for the wedding cake. It's all I care about. So Brooke at one point calls me and says "C'mon, we're gonna get started", so I go and sit in the very front row, as close to the wedding cake as possible, cause I literally want that second piece. So anyway, I sit down and I'm right in the front row with Brooke. And it turns out she meant come sit here cause Tuck and Patti are starting, like, their full concert!! And I thought, oh shit! And I'm looking at the wedding cake, salivating like a dog!

 * She reaches under and grabs my peech and like, squeezes it and walks away. I run over to Brooke and go "Your mother just molested me. I could sue you and own this house"!

 * I said "boy, I'd love to get a tour of this house cause it's so beautiful". So she hooks my arm, and she walks by. And then the grooms mother, trying to help me out says "Can I help you ladies with anything?" And then Brooke's Mom; and this is why I love her, without missing a beat, says to the groom's mother - "Shut up, you fucking cunt"!! It was a fucking dream come true!

 * And then she (Brooke Sheilds) says the ill-fated words "You have to put this in your act". And I said "What, I would never"! Because it's a private time!!

 * They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say "now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like "I want the ride... the first one... the boring one... the ride. I don't want the "rrrride"... I want the ride!
 * The wrestler was up there with his wife, and I actually heard her say "Can this thing do a loopty loop?"
 * (On signing autographs for troops) I'd be writing To Private so and so, love Kathy Griffin and then I'd go "here, think about this when you beat off".
 * So anyway, the show starts, and it's the Army band, and it's all those American "ra ra" songs, you know that whole "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free." And they eat that shit up!
 * All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys [Afghani men] aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!
 * If they wanna meet me, they have to shake my hand. And I'm going down the line saying "Yeah, thats right...look at me......I'm an American woman... you can shake my hand, motherfucker... that's right... that's how we roll... hi... (points to herself)... look... whore face....."

 * I knew the minute I heard the "gay inhale". He literally goes "Diva, what are you doing here?". It was heaven! I found my gay, even in Kandahar, Afghanistan! He plonks down next to me, puts the tray down, puts his gun down... he's like "Errghh, girl, I'm on graveyard tonight... I am a wreck... I'm exhausted... my roommates are all snoring, yee-ukk, they're pigs! Anyway, what's going on with Ben and J-Lo?"

 * (Talking about Kabul, Afghanistan) It's great for the women. Still in the burkas and the women still can't leave their homes without a man, or else the cleric with the big stick beats them until they go back in. They go back in...they clean the bucket of clits......! Oh Kathy, that was just the limit. You have crossed the line...right after you moved it! So basically, it fucking sucks there and it's a complete shithole.

 * So then, I go to this other guy who's just a civilian guy and minding his own business and I go to him like this "Burka - NO"! "Burka - BAD"! Like he's one of my dogs!

Is... Not Nicole Kidman (2005)

 * I can't stand that asshole Ryan Seacrest and here's why. He can't sing. He can't dance. He has no talent. When is he gonna go away?

 * This thing that's really weird about Seacrest is that he's super into grooming. He gets mani-pedi's. He gets his eyelashes dyed. He goes to Mystic Tan, he flat-irons his hair. Very butch. Very typical of straight men!

 * You'll have to excuse my friend, Ryan. That's the first time he's ever touched a woman.

 * (About Oprah Winfrey) She's very thin now, she's very cranky.....and very hungry!

 * Oprah decides to go with her "friend", Gayle.

 * You've got the two titans. Streisand. Oprah. Both strong black women.

 * People with cancer like to wear jogging suits.

 * I might imply in my act that Clay (Aiken) is a big, fat homo!

 * I was raised right, I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners!

 * When Clay Aiken comes to your town - GO! It is a spectacle. It is the gayest thing I have ever seen! Organisers of the Pride Fest in San Francisco are like "We're fucked"!

 * Because he loves pussy. Except it smells like fish!

 * You know how you get that pre-diarrhoea feeling in your stomach? I'm not saying I shit my pants. But I knew I only had about 90 seconds to play with!

Strong Black Woman (2006)

 * I know that Lindsay (Lohan) has lost a lot of weight recently, due to diet, Pilates and crack. Without the diet and Pilates.

 * What? Steven Spielberg is furious with me? I won't be able to star in any more Steven Spielberg movies? What will I do with my day? Suck my dick!!

 * Cause you know my joke is that I love her (Oprah Winfrey) but she thinks she's Jesus? And when she gets a paper cut she's like "Oh, stigmata?". No, Oprah. Get off the cross and do your show!

 * I'm gonna be so hot, I'm gonna fuck myself!

 * If you have not seen the Celine Dion Vegas show, tomorrow, get a plane ticket, go to Vegas... it is the biggest freak show you will ever see! It's Cirque De Celine.

 * I guess the contortionists are cool right, very impressive, they're doing stuff we can't do. But for me, once you see the gay guy bend over and fuck himself, I'm done!

 * Everytime she walks out (on stage), she acts like she's shocked anyone showed up! Every night! As if every single day, at about 3 o'clock, she's like, "You know Rene, maybe tonight iz ze night zey do not come?"

 * [Impersonating Celine) "Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children"...(looks puzzled).... that's just everybody, right?

 * I know you love her... you're gay and she's Celine Dion!

 * I'm not wearing any pants and the lesbians are waiting!

 * And then who comes along to save the day? A couple of tool-belt wearing, golf-loving, Dinah Shore weekend lesbians sent from heaven.

Straight To Hell (2007)

 * The 2007 Emmy Awards were a little too Cirque de Seacrest. I shouldn't say that about Ryan, she's a very good hostess.

 * As someone who was raised Catholic, and went to St Bernadine's; don't pull your Catholic kid-fucker bullshit with me, motherfuckers! I'm not scared of you. And I'm not havin it!

 * I was in the Oak Park theatre group. But we never had $90 000 to take an ad out! We were lucky if we had money for the glitter for the fucking poster!

 * Wake up people! If you are gay and living in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, what the fuck else are you gonna do? You're gonna join the musical theatre. That's all you got in Pigeon Forge - there's no "bear" bar! This is it. Suit up.....put the wings on!

 * I don't give a fuck who's gay or straight in the Senate. Who cares? But it's always the one that they have all this tape of, saying gay people shouldn't have civil rights, gay people aren't the same, I would never want a gay person......those are always the ones trying to get a headjob at the fucking airport bathroom at the Minneapolis airport!

 * (About gay cruising) My gays had to school me, and they said there's a whole system and a language to the tapping. One tap means you're a top, two means you're a bottom.....I don't know, it's very elaborate. Very elaborate.

 * I would rather blow a guy in the bathroom at White Castle in between sliders...because I'm romantic!

 * (On Paris Hilton) Believe it or not, I sort of know her a little bit. And based on that, I'm here to tell you that she is actually.......um.....retarded!

 * I know I'm going to Hell. And I think I might see a few of you there. When I get there, it'll be like (waving) "Hi", "Hi", "Oh my God....Hi!"

 * (On William Shatner) He is like my favourite red-faced, bloated booze bag.

Balls of Steel (2009)

 * Now the great thing about the current Britney (Spears) tour, is that it has a lot of fantastic dancing... and she doesn't get bogged down in any....ahm...singing!

 * It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!

 * The first red flag? The crooked wig! That's how you know what level of awareness Whitney is at. Cause let me tell - you know her gay was straightening that wig to the bitter end. Making sure the part was in the right place. But you know what - when the (crack) pipe is shaking? It's hard to keep it on, when the pipe is all shaking.

 * (After Houston asks the audience in Central Park to sing along to a new, un-aired song) And the poor gays with the signs are like "We don't know that song yet....it's not even (on the radio)...go Diva....I mean, we don't know that song. I would like to...I don't...??"
 * I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be...ahm....voluptuous!

 * I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a "singer"......the way Courtney Love is a "singer".

 * Because Oprah would be like "DID YOU DO COOOOCAAAAAAINE???"

 * Do you know why I'm thin? Because I'm hungry ALL the time!

 * We didn't know that the (Jackson) family was as nuts as we're now finding out. Who knew that Michael was the normal one??

 * (About Joe Jackson) First of all, he's sitting there with the pimp hat, and the tattooed drag queen eyebrows. Like maybe this whole time, he just has a separate drag character that he does at night.........named La Toya!

 * I am not gonna engage in a debate that Michael Jackson could be the biological father of any of those kids. I'm not havin it, not tonight. There's no way. Those kids are Whitey, Whitey McGee and Whitey McWhiterson!

Whores on Crutches (2010)

 * (About controversy) What you guys get, that celebrities don't get, is that I live for this shit!

 * (About Elisabeth Hasselbeck) Really Hasselbeck, you're gonna throw down with me? I mean, really? If you're gonna come to the play yard, be prepared to fucking play!

 * She wouldn't shake my hand! I said "C'mon, be a gentleman".

 * Straight guys, this is your section, wake up (clap clap).

 * Elin Nordegren could not be happier. How many girls here would trade places with her in a second? Where do I sign? First of all, she doesn't have to bang him (Tiger Woods) anymore! And she's probably gonna get, like $500 million! So they keep getting these pictures of her with the two kids, and she's just laughing all the way to the bank...haaa haaa haaa haaa...heugen fleugen heugen fleugen...hjorda fjorda hjorda fjorda...

 * Next thing I know, there a baby in my ter-litt!

 * (talking about fixating on one slot machine in Vegas) And I am playing my machine, and playing it, and playing it, and then finally I walk away, and then who shows up? Oh, you know who I'm talkin' about. That's right. That's right. As I'm walking away from my machine I've been on all night long, I actually hear her--and this is Old Lucky Asian Woman--you know her! You know what I'm talkin' about! I actually hear her on "my" machine going [in an Asian accent] "How much I win?! Oh, how much I win?! Oh, what happen? I never play before! It first time I play! Oh, I was walking by, I hit one time, I hit ten thousand dollar!" Bitter and angry! You know what I'm talkin' about! I'm like "give me my money, bitch! Those are my nickels!"

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Quotes on Abortion are listed in alphabetical order (according to the name of the speaker).

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A

 * "Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
 * Edward Abbey, One Life at a Time, Please (1988)

 * "No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed [abortion]. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"
 * Susan B. Anthony, women's suffrage movement leader, The Revolution, 7/8/1869.

B

 * "[I]n face of erroneous interpretations of freedom, [Pope John Paul II] emphasized in an unequivocal way the inviolability of the human being, the inviolability of human life from its conception until natural death. The freedom to kill is not true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the human being to slavery."
 * Pope Benedict XVI, homily, 5/7/2005

 * "I think a noble goal for this country is that every child, born and unborn, ought to be protected in law and welcomed into life."
 * George W. Bush, U.S. Presidential debate in Boston, 10/1/2000

 * "Those of us who are pro-choice are also, passionately, pro-life. Most of us love babies, love children, and love our liberty—not to mention loving sex and our right to have it when, how, and with whomever we choose."
 * Rachel Kramer Bussel, "I'm Pro-Choice and I Fuck", Village Voice, January 13, 2006

C

 * "I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong."
 * Bill Clinton, now in favor of legalized abortion, in a letter to Arkansas Right to Life, 9/26/1986

 * "If Americans support abortion, let's vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby."
 * Ann Coulter, lawyer and political commentator, 12/28/2000

D

 * "The the difference between the way of life and the way of death is great. Therefore, do not murder a child by abortion or kill a newborn infant."
 * The Didache, book of Christian apostolic teachings, circa 80 A.D.

 * "now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes"
 * Ani DiFranco, Lost Woman Song

 * "Pro-lifers should dig themselves / Cause life doesn't stop after birth / And to a child born to the unprepared / It might even just get worse"
 * Digable Planets, La Femme Fétal

E

 * "The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."
 * Barbara Ehrenreich, "Their Dilemma and Mine" (1989), reprinted in The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991)

 * "[Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus."
 * Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, Redbook Magazine, 8/1994

G

 * "(This) subject lies deeper down in woman’s wrongs than any other...I hesitate not to assert that most of (the responsibility for) this crime lies at the door of the male sex."
 * Matilda Gage, early feminist, in The Revolution, 4/9/1868

 * "For God…has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life…Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes."
 * Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World),Second Vatican Council, promulgated 12/7/1965

 * "It seems to me clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime."
 * Mahatma Gandhi, in All Men Are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi

 * "The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief...So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."
 * Emma Goldman, anarchist, activist, in Mother Earth, 1911

 * "During my 11 years in congress, I have consistently opposed federal funding for abortions. In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably taking of a human life. Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected, and I am committed to furthering this goal."
 * Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President,, now in favor of legalized abortion, in a letter to a constituent, while U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 5/26/1987

 * "The goal was ‘every child a wanted child’; it should also have been ‘every abortion a wanted abortion’, but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet."
 * Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman

H

 * "No one, neither the patient receiving an abortion, nor the person doing the abortion, is ever, at anytime, unaware that they are ending a life..."
 * Dr. William F. Harrison, abortion doctor, from the essay Why I Provide Abortions 1996

 * "The early feminists found abortion to be the ultimate exploitation of women. [Women had to] become men to compete. We bought into that. We're smarter today. It's more empowering to go through with your pregnancy."
 * Patricia Heaton, Washington Times, 4/14/2005

 * "I reject that criticism because this is indeed another kind of holocaust, by another name. At last count, more than 40 million unborn children have been deliberately, intentionally destroyed. What word adequately defines the scope of such slaughter? [After 9/11] the American people responded with shock, sadness and a deep and righteous anger — and rightly so. Yet let us not forget that every passing day in our country, more than three thousand innocent Americans are killed [through abortion]."
 * Jesse Helms, in Here's Where I Stand, 2005

 * "I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion."
 * from the Hippocratic Oath, attributed to the school of Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” circa 400 B.C.

I

 * "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."
 * Irish Constitution, 8th Amendment, adopted by popular referendum, 10/7/1983

J

 * "There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of [a] higher order than the right to life ... that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside your right to be concerned."
 * Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. civil rights activist, now in favor of legal abortion, in National Right to Life News, 1/1977

 * "America first proclaimed its independence on the basis of self-evident moral truths. America will remain a beacon of freedom for the world as long as it stands by those moral truths which are the very heart of its historical experience. And so America: If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life."
 * Pope John Paul II, St. Louis, Missouri, 1/28/1999.

K

 * "While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old."
 * Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy, U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate, now in favor of legalized abortion, in a letter to a constituent, 8/3/1971

L

 * "'If you won't stand up for your own child, somebody has to.' He believed it, and he was convinced it was God's view. It made sense to him. But he also knew she could reject it out of hand simply because he was a man. How could he understand? No one was suggesting what he could or could not do with his own body. He had wanted to tell her he understood that, but again, what if that unborn child was a female? Who was standing up for the rights of that woman's body?"
 * Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, excerpted from the novel Nicolae p.297, third book from the Left Behind novels

 * "The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces: what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women.  Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1997)

 * "Given the National Organization for Women’s membership and proclivities, it’s no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed with only two issues: abortion rights and lesbian rights."
 * Rush Limbaugh, in The Way Things Ought To Be, 1992

 * "Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see they very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light."
 * Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984)

 * "...The fact that only poor women are denied reproductive freedom when abortions are illegal is unpersuasive to those who oppose abortion on moral grounds."
 * Kristin Luker, Dubious Conceptions (1996)

M

 * "No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg."
 * Frederica Mathewes-Green, member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, in her book Real Choices: Listening to Women, Looking for Alternatives to Abortion, 1997

 * "Once you decide the uterus must be emptied, you then have to have 100% allegiance to maternal risk. There's no justification to doing a more dangerous procedure because somehow this doesn't offend your sensibilities as much."
 * Dr. James T. McMahon, American Medical News (U.S. Congressional Record, 1996, p. H10634)

 * “We think abortion is a bad thing. No woman wants to have an abortion.”
 * Kate Michelman, then Executive Director of National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, in a taped Philadelphia Inquirer interview 1993

 * "And, by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow."
 * Dennis Miller, Ranting Again, 1999

N

 * "I don’t think government has the proper role in forcing a woman to have a child or forcing a woman not to have a child. And we’ve seen that around the world. This is something that should be privately decided with the family, woman, all the other private factors of it, but we should work toward preventing the necessity of abortion."
 * Ralph Nader, Interview on ‘Meet the Press’ May 7, 2000

 * "Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows."
 * Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortion doctor turned pro-life, in his book Aborting America, 1979

O

 * "I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure [abortion] and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller."
 * Dolores O'Riordan, lead vocalist of The Cranberries, You! magazine, June/July 1996

P

 * "People are interested in having babies; they're just not interested in having 15 babies. The average American woman spends 23 years of her life preventing pregnancy. No one's going 23 years not having sex."
 * Cristina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex, as quoted in "I'm Pro-Choice and I Fuck", Rachel Kramer Bussel, Village Voice January 13, 2006

 * "Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
 * Alice Paul, author of the 1923 U.S. Equal Rights Amendment

 * "Responsible parenthood involves decades devoted to the child's proper nurture. To sentence a woman to bear a child against her will is an unspeakable violation of her rights: her right to liberty (to the functions of her body), her right to the pursuit of happiness, and, sometimes, her right to life itself, even as a serf. Such a sentence represents the sacrifice of the actual to the potential, of a real human being to a piece of protoplasm, which has no life in the human sense of the term. It is sheer perversion of language for people who demand this sacrifice to call themselves 'right-to-lifers.'"
 * Leonard Peikoff (Objectivism, in the Chapter on Government)

 * "Is birth control an abortion? Definitely not; an abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun."
 * Planned Parenthood pamphlet, 8/1963

 * "Inevitably, attacking abortion as a great evil means attacking providers and patients. If abortion is so bad, why not stigmatize the doctors who perform them? Deny the clinic a permit in your town? Make women feel guilty and ashamed for choosing it and make them sweat so they won't screw up again? Ironically, improvements in contraception have made unwanted pregnancy look more like a personal failing. 'Why was I so careful? Because I never wanted to have an abortion,' wrote 32-year-old Laurie Gigliotti in response to Saletan's op-ed, describing her super-vigilant approach to safe sex. You can just see how unwanted pregnancy will join obesity and smoking as unacceptable behavior in polite society. But how is all this censoriousness supposed to help women control their fertility? If half of all pregnancies are unplanned, it doesn't make sense to treat them as individual sins."
 * Katha Pollitt, "Subject to Debate" column in The Nation, 2/5/2006

 * "We are always told that violent anti-choicers are a mere fringe. Obviously, few anti-choicers commit murder or arson. But, as the Matthew Shepard case reminds us, extreme vocabulary creates a climate of moral permission for extreme acts. This is a movement whose main spokespeople, many of them mantled in clerical or political authority, regularly use words like 'baby killers', 'murder', 'holocaust', and 'Nazis', thus legitimizing just about anything. After all, the conspirators who tried to assassinate Hitler are heroes."
 * Katha Pollitt, "Subject to Debate" column in The Nation, 11/16/1998 (reprinted in Subject to Debate (2001))

 * "Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) -- Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists -- but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf."
 * Katha Pollitt, "Subject to Debate" column in The Nation, 5/1/2000 (reprinted in Subject to Debate (2001))

 * "What would the alternative be? Abortion by prayer? By edict? Upon seeking consensus? After groveling? Women have thought long and hard about this decision before they ever get to my clinic. In fact, most of them have been agonizing for days or even weeks, some to the extent of rescheduling their appointments several times."
 * Suzanne T. Poppema, discussing the phrase "abortion on demand", in Why I Am An Abortion Doctor (1996)

R

 * "One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives."
 * Ayn Rand, "A Last Survey — Part I", The Ayn Rand Letter Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.

 * "I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born."
 * Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, September 22, 1980

 * "The fact that a majority of the States reflecting, after all, the majority sentiment in those States, have had restrictions on abortions for at least a century is a strong indication, it seems to me, that the asserted right to an abortion is not ‘so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental…’"
 * Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, one of two dissenters against the majority opinion in the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade, 1/22/1973

 * "In a society where women entered sexual intercourse willingly, where adequate contraception was a genuine social priority, there would be no 'abortion issue'. . . Abortion is violence. . . It is the offspring, and will continue to be the accuser of a more pervasive and prevalent violence, the violence of rapism."
 * Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and author and advocate of legal abortion, in Of Woman Born, 1976

S

 * Glendon: Why did you and so many other constitutional lawyers stop criticizing the Court’s abortion decisions after most of you had been highly critical of Roe v. Wade?
 * Sacks: I suppose it was because we had been made to understand that the abortion issue was so important to the women in our lives, and it just did not seem that important to most of us.
 * Al Sacks, as Dean of Harvard Law School circa 1985, quoted by Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon, in First Things, June/July 2003

 * "It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will."
 * Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, "Women in Germany", Birth Control Review, 12/1920

 * "But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave."
 * Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator, 7/05/2005

 * "The state could have been concerned about rendering society callous to infanticide ... the horror of seeing a live human creature outside the womb dismembered. Can't that be a valid societal interest?"
 * Justice Antonin Scalia, questioning attorneys during oral arguments in US Supreme Court case Stenberg vs. Carhart, 4/25/2000

 * And since a man can't make one / He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
 * Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head Up

 * "The pro-life groups were right about one thing, the location of the baby inside or outside the womb cannot make much of a moral difference. We cannot coherently hold it is alright to kill a fetus a week before birth, but as soon as the baby is born everything must be done to keep it alive. The solution, however, is not to accept the pro-life view that the fetus is a human being with the same moral status as yours or mine. The solution is the very opposite, to abandon the idea that all human life is of equal worth."
 * Peter Singer, Princeton ethicist, "Bioethics: The Case of the Fetus", in the New York Review of Books, 8/5/1976

 * "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."
 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's suffrage movement leader, in a letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library, 10/16/1873

 * "It was 1957 and I was living in London, working as a waitress. I had no money and no friends and was trying to figure out what to do. There was no way I could give birth to someone and also give birth to myself. At the time, to get an abortion in England you needed two doctors to write a letter stating that it was [medically] necessary. I could not make myself feel guilty for a moment. It was the first time I took responsibility for my life. You know, when you are desperate, it’s easy to make the decision to abort. Ambivalence seems to be a function of legality."
 * Gloria Steinem, appearing in the documentary film Speak Out: I Had An Abortion, 2005

 * "Of course I'm following the Supreme Court nominations - I have a uterus! I'm stocking up - I got three abortions on the way here. . . I'm pro-choice. . ."
 * Commedienne Wanda Sykes, discussing the Senate confirmation hearings of nominee John G. Roberts on The Tonight Show, 9/14/2005

T

 * "One doctor said, `In France, we think that abortion is more moral earlier.' And I thought to myself, we think so too in the United States, but we don't dare say it."
 * Charlotte Taft, abortion counselor and consultant, "When abortions come late in a pregnancy; Though rare, most aren't for medical reasons", US News & World Report, 1/19/1998

 * "...the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself...because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
 * Mother Teresa, in her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize, 11 December, 1979

 * "When I or people like me are running the country, you'd better flee because we will find you, we will try you and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that you are tried and executed."
 * Randall Terry, leader of Operation Rescue, Addressing doctors who perform abortions, in a speech to the U.S. Taxpayers Alliance, from The Hotline, May 9, 2000

 * "Whether in the name of traditional sex roles or in the name of a traditional sexual morality, much opposition to abortion seems really to be about the control of women."
 * Laurence Tribe, in Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

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 * "In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning. . . Any measures or changes related to abortion within the health system can only be determined at the national or local level according to the national legislative process. In circumstances where abortion is not against the law, such abortion should be safe."
 * United Nations International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, paragraph 8.25, adopted by 179 countries, 1994

V

 * "Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus."
 * Vilma Valdez, Education Director Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, The Miami Herald, 10/24/1992

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 * "George W Bush, go to hell! And while you’re at it, we want you to take Ashcroft with you. And don’t forget Rumsfeld. And please carry along Condi Rice. . . I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."
 * Maxine Waters, member of US Congress, at the televised pro-choice March For Women's Lives, 4/25/04

 * "The word 'privacy' does not appear in the Constitution. Then again, neither does 'travel.' But if you were to ask any American, 'Do you have the right to travel where and when you like?' they'd say 'yes.' And the Supreme Court has upheld this right."
 * Attorney Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade, "A Delicate Decision", Westchester County Weekly, 1/22/1998

 * "At the heart of the controversy in these cases are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to the life or health of the mother but are, nevertheless, unwanted for any one or more of a variety of reasons -- convenience, family planning, economics, dislike of children, the embarrassment of illegitimacy, etc."
 * Justice Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court, one of two dissenters in Roe v. Wade, 1/22/1973

 * "Abortion is not the emancipation of women. Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. When they ask us, 'What about the woman,' we will not say, 'What about the baby?' We will give them a good answer. We will say, 'We refuse to choose between women and their children. We will fight for you who deserve better than abortion.'"
 * Sally Winn, vice president of Feminists for Life, at the annual March For Life, January 2003

 * "Men must no longer insult all womanhood by saying that freedom means the degradation of woman. Every woman knows if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth."
 * Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for U.S. President, member of the Equal Rights Party, in The Evening Standard (Wheeling, WV), 11/17/1875

 * "Whoever has read the WEEKLY knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder."
 * Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for U.S. President, member of the Equal Rights Party, in Woodhull's and Claffin's Weekly, 12/2/1871

Z

 * "It's a nasty, dirty, yucky thing and I always come home angry. . .I've become very good at it. I've become one hell of an abortionist. But it's not something I tell my kids about. . . Have you ever seen one? . . I don't care what anyone say, it is not a tonsillectomy, not just any old medical procedure. It's terminating a potential human life."
 * Dr. David Zbaraz, abortion doctor, "ABORTIONIST; Doctor Joins Suit for Right to Do Operation He Hates", Washington Post, March 3, 1980

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 * "Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?"
 * George Carlin

 * "People say 'life begins at conception.' I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process."
 * George Carlin

 * "When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins."
 * Robert Casey, former Governor of Pennsylvania

 * "Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day.  There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born."
 * Garrett Hardin

 * "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
 * Florynce Kennedy

 * "To those who were robbed of life: the unborn, the weak, the sick, the old, during the Dark Ages of madness, selfishness, lust and greed for which the last decades of the twentieth century are remembered..."
 * Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General

 * "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
 * Dorothy Parker, On going into hospital for an abortion.

 * "We should not be surprised at the epidemic of child abuse. Obviously there is a connection between what we can do to a baby in the first nine months of life in the womb, and thereafter."
 * Paul Ramsey, Princeton ethicist

 * "A man who takes it upon himself to prescribe how others should dispose of their own lives - and who seeks to condemn them by law, i.e., by force, to the drudgery of an unchosen, lifelong servitude (which, more often than not, is beyond their economic means or capacity) - such a man has no right to pose as a defender of rights. A man with so little concern or respect for the rights of the individual, cannot and will not be a champion of freedom or of capitalism."
 * Ayn Rand

 * "I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving."
 * Sarah Silverman

 * (I'd have a quote, except my parents aborted me)
 * The Sounds of Silence, 2004

 * "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
 * Mother Teresa of Calcutta


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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The Hellmarines: Heavy Metal Clan

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

The Hellmarines: Heavy Metal Clan
Not notable, and no quotes. ~ UDScott 12:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 12:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 15:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 15:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. NAICT, it's just wikispam.  121a0012 01:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Fears friend

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Fears friend
There's no intro to provide context, but I can't find anything in a Google search to indicate what this page is for, and the single quote doesn't turn up any results. —LrdChaos 17:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 18:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 17:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 17:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:11, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like another one of those single-quote pages to my eyes.  121a0012 01:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It looks like the editor tried to turn it into an incredibly specific theme article based on the quote text. But without a source or attribution, there's no point even in merging it into some other article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:26, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Neutral point of view/Draft

Wikiquote has a strict neutral point of view (NPOV) policy, which basically states that its mission is best served not by advancing or detracting particular points of view on any given subject, but by trying to present a fair, neutral description of the facts, among which are the facts that various interpretations and points of view exist. (Of course, there are limits to which points of view are worth mentioning, and this can be an area of conflict.) This policy exists on all Wikimedia projects.

"Neutral point of view" should not be confused with "point of view espoused by an international body such as the United Nations"; writing in NPOV style requires recognising that even widely held or widely respected points of view are not necessarily all-encompassing.

While NPOV is an ultimate goal in writing a Wikiquote article, it's difficult to achieve immediately as a single writer, and is thus sometimes regarded as an iterative process (as is writing in general), by which opposing viewpoints compromise on language and presentation to produce a neutral description acceptable to all.

This might be viewed as an adversarial system, but hopefully a polite one. One is expected to approximate NPOV to the best of one's ability and welcome improvements brought by others in good faith; a failure of the system can become an, in which two or more parties dig in and refuse to compromise, instead reverting each other's changes outright.

The original formulation of NPOV
A general purpose encyclopedia is a collection of synthesized knowledge presented from a neutral point of view. To whatever extent possible, encyclopedic writing should steer clear of taking any particular stance other than the stance of the neutral point of view.

The neutral point of view attempts to present ideas and facts in such a fashion that both supporters and opponents can agree. Of course, 100% agreement is not possible; there are ideologues in the world who will not concede to any presentation other than a forceful statement of their own point of view. We can only seek a type of writing that is agreeable to essentially rational people who may differ on particular points.

Some examples may help to drive home the point I am trying to make:

 * 1) An encyclopedic article should not argue that corporations are criminals, even if the author believes it to be so. It should instead present the fact that some people believe it, and what their reasons are, and then as well it should present what the other side says.
 * 2) An encyclopedia article should not argue that laissez-faire capitalism is the best social system. [...] It should instead present the arguments of the advocates of that point of view, and the arguments of the people who disagree with that point of view.

Perhaps the easiest way to make your writing more encyclopedic is to write about what people believe, rather than what is so. If this strikes you as somehow subjectivist or collectivist or imperialist, then ask me about it, because I think that you are just mistaken. What people believe is a matter of objective fact, and we can present that quite easily from the neutral point of view.
 * Jimbo Wales, Wikimedia founder

NPOV on Wikiquote
Since Wikiquote is a collection of quotations, NPOV writing is less frequently required. This does not mean that NPOV is any less an official policy, or that it does not apply on Wikiquote. Quotations included in Wikiquote do not need to conform to NPOV, as they are reflections of the point-of-view of the quoted individual; however, the selection and presentation of quotes, as well as all non-quote text on Wikiquote (excluding userpages and with limitations in the Wikiquote namespace) should conform to NPOV. This includes intro text on quote pages, templates intended for the main namespace (they should not express preference for or against any view, etc.), and where relevant, the contents of the Wikiquote namespace.

Selection of quotes
We must be careful, and remember that Wikiquote is not a personal collection of quotations, but a public collection. For subjects where multiple viewpoints or schools of thought exist, the selection of quotes should adequately represent all of the major views, regardless of whether you personally agree with them or not. Quotes should be selected because they are relevant to the subject; they should not be chosen to embarass or misrepresent a person or a point of view.

This means that editors should not remove quotes from an article simply because it expresses a viewpoint they do not agree with. Each user should not add quotes to a page simply because he agrees with the sentiment, but beacuse he believes that it is significant to everyone. If you find a passage or a phrase that expresses an opinion or idea that you share fully, this does not necessarily mean that it is a very important phrase; a phrase that you think is particularly well written or brilliant may not be so for everyone (you must be careful to funny quotes: Wikiquote is not a collection of jokes and ridicule is very subjective). If you are unsure whether a quote is significant for all, i.e. not only a "personal quote", it's better to just put it in your own personal collection of quotations (a little book, a text document saved on your computer, your user page). Conversely, even a thought that you don't share at all, or even firmly refuse, may be significant, representative of the author or his work, and useful or even necessary to understand it. Indeed, a phrase of particular disapproval may be particularly strong and significant. If you do not mind this, you may not quote anything from a work such as Mein Kampf, or selectively cite any work, giving a distorted picture.

Obviously, the text should be perfectly faithful to the original, to be neutral. The translations, however, may be partial, even unknowingly, so it is better to quote an official, published translation; translations by users are accepted, but efforts should be made - as always - to be precise, and above all allow verification of translations by entering the correct source of the original text, and possibly the original text itself, in any case if it is not too long or not easily and permanently accessible (at a click distance), for example in another Wikimedia project, typically Wikiquote or Wikisource in another language.

Another problem may be the position of the quotes in the articles: giving raise to a citation within a particular article is implicitly support a particular point of view. The problem can be solved by ordering alphabetically or by date all the lists of quotations, and prohibiting any graphic expedient to give greater emphasis to a quotation (eg appropriate boxes, bold).

The real difficulty, however, is the choice of quotations that should be included in our articles. How to choose, in a book, a film or work of any kind, or in the whole mass of words pronounced by a person in his life, what is truly relevant and meaningful, as required by the fundamental guideline Wikiquote?

Moreover, we must consider that a neutral point of view is also a stable point of view: we must therefore avoid the so-called recentism, leading to exaggerate the importance of recent facts (and words), and ask ourselves whether a citation will also be interesting in ten years, or rather not fall into oblivion.

All these errors can usually be corrected by interacting with other people: in search of consensus; and above all especially on the basis of authoritative sources to avoid original research.

Presentation of quotes
Often, the manner in which a quote is presented has a large bearing on how it is understood. On, Wikiquote in precisely the opposite that in Wikipedia, quotes must be widely prevalent on the text of contour, and this applies not only to each article as a whole, but also for every single quotation. The best way to avoid the text of the contour from being not neutral, is not to include it.

The comments to quotations are an exception, so they are well separated from the quotes, in bold italic [in this manner] or in the footnotes. That should not be necessary, however: quotes should be included with enough context, either from the section in which they are placed, or from more extensive quoting from the same source, to make clear their original meaning and application to the subject. If a quotation is so fragmented, short or extrapolated from the context that it needs a long comment or explanation to be understood, then you probably should not include it at all, even if the interpretation is considered unique and not subject to the diversity of personal opinions.

On the other hand, the comments and insights that are not strictly necessary for the understanding of the meaning of the pure and simple quote, to give it a sense, should not be included in Wikiquote, but in other projects, typically a page of Wikipedia, where, for example, you may bring a citation of a novelist as an example of his style, treating the subject broadly, or enter into a discussion of historical context (plot of the story, a work of imagination; or, real story), which will not be summarized in Wikiquote.

Omissions and supplements may be particularly controversial. It is all to easy to take a single sentence or phrase out of context, where it will then seem to apply to a point of view completely unintended, perhaps even the opposite of what was intended, by its speaker. A «[...]» can hide anything, a single important word or entire chapters. By an appropriate size and sewing (quote mining), removing parts of sentences and adding subjects or verbs, you can potentially make to say anything to anyone. Consequently, it is good to use them wisely. Omissions of sentences, phrases or short texts of length should be avoided at all: better to quote the passage in its entirety, if that doesn't require too much space. If the sentence is somewhat redundant or repetitive, that's not so bad: it can be cut, and used only in its most significant parts, on Wikipedia or elsewhere (including the thematic articles).

If you make long omissions, perhaps of entire paragraphs or pages, you must first of all clearly signal them, indicating with high precision the pages, the range of pages or paragraphs of the work from which the quotations are taken; then you should evaluate whether the combination of two or more pieces, more or less distant is not arbitrary, and whether they indeed constitute such a compact thought to be considered sort of a sole quotation. Otherwise, it will be better to separate the different pieces, with a bulleted list and separate quotation, specifying the precise position (chapter, page etc.).

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Wikiquote talk:Neutral point of view/Draft

I have created this draft to address what I see as certain inadequecies with the current neutral point of view policy. To summarize my comments from the policy's talk page, I feel that our policy as written does not account for the fact that the selection and/or presentation of quotes can be just as POV, perhaps even more so, than non-NPOV non-quote text. By presenting narrow sections of quotes, it is possible to strip it of its original context and make the quote appear to support or oppose an issue that the original speaker did not intend. Also, it is possible to exclude or remove quotes that one feels do not support "their" position, or present a view that they may not agree with (for example, someone might remove all quotes critical of a certain religion). —LrdChaos (talk) 19:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * This draft was substantially expanded recently, incorporating ideas from it.wikiquote. I have a couple comments on this draft:
 * A policy would be easier to cite (and discuss) with prominent, succinct statements of what is required or prohibited. These could be highlighted with subheadings or bullets. Much of the page is essay-like, using a rhetorical style more appropriate for discussion than for definition of policy. Explanatory material, i.e. rationales and suggestions, should be brief and should be positioned so as to leave the fundamental policy statement(s) most prominent on the page.
 * I am a little troubled by the emphasis on covering a topic, i.e., "...quotes should adequately represent all of the major views..." and "Quotes should be selected because they are relevant...." While quotability is addressed in the following paragraphs, I think the emphasis should be different. Wikipedia requires including all of the major views in order to cover a topic, but I see Wikiquote's purpose differently. Here I think neutrality means Wikiquote permits including any quotable views relevant to a topic. Most articles having POV problems were crappy articles because they had crappy quotes. Just as POV should not be allowed to motivate including such material, balancing POV should not be allowed to justify it either.
 * Taken as a whole, I do not think the current draft is a good candidate for adoption. It does make several valid points, but many are just common sense. I would be interested in learning about specific behavior problems we are experiencing that could be addressed by particular policy statements. Otherwise, I would consider it a higher priority to develop the quotability policy (not to mention formally adopting the Limits on quotations policy). ~ Ningauble 18:34, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:Sternn~enwikiquote

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User talk:Bigsista~enwikiquote

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Bigsista. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Bigsista~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Onibara~enwikiquote

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Onibara. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Onibara~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Xbows~enwikiquote

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Xbows. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Xbows~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Rishichauhan

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The African Queen

The African Queen is a 1951 film about a gin-swilling riverboat captain in Africa during WWI who is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
 * Directed by John Huston. Written by James Agee and John Huston, based on the novel by C. S. Forester.

The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman!

Charlie Allnut

 * Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
 * Ooooh! Coward yourself! You ain't no lady. No, Miss. That's what my poor old Mother would say to you, if my poor old Mother was to hear you. Whose boat is this, anyway? I asked you on board 'cause I was sorry for you on account of your losing your brother and all. What you get for feeling sorry for people! Well, I ain't sorry no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
 * Pinch me, Rosie. Here we are, going down the river like Anthony and Cleopatra on that barge! I'll never forget the way you looked going over the falls - head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind - the living picture of a hero-eyne!
 * What a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren, will we?

Rose Sayer

 * [to Charlie, after realizing she is in love with him] Dear. What is your first name?
 * [to Charlie] You're the bravest man that ever lived.

German captain

 * By the authority vested in me by Kaiser Wilhelm II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.

Dialogue

 * Charlie Allnut: Well, Miss, ‘ere we are, everything ship shape, like they say. Ah, it's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to livin' like a hog. Ha, ha. Then, too, with me, it's always: 'Put things off. Never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow.' But with you: 'Business before pleasure.' Every time. Do all your personal laundry. Make yourself spic-and-span, get all the mending out of the way, and then - and only then - sit down for a nice quiet hour with the Good Book. I tell you, it's a model - like an inspiration. Why, I ain't had this old engine so clean in years, inside and out. Ha, ha. Just look at her, Miss. See how she practically sparkles. Myself, too. Guess you ain't never had a look at me without my whiskers and all cleaned up. I bet you wouldn't hardly recognize me, works that much of a change. Freshens ya up, too. If I only had some clean clothes, like you. Now you - why you could be at high tea. Say, that's an idea, Miss. How's about a nice little cup of tea? Now don't you stir, I'll be glad to make it for you.
 * [silence]
 * Charlie Allnut: Uh, how's the Book, Miss? [no answer] Well, not that I ain't read it. That is to say, my poor old Mum used to read me stories out of it. [no answer] How's about reading it out loud? [silence] I could sure do with a little spiritual comfort, myself. [Yelling at her] And you call yourself a Christian! Do you hear me? Don't ya? Don't ya? Huh? What ya being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while. It's only human nature.
 * Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.
 * Charlie Allnut: Miss, I'm sorry. I apologize. What more can a man do than say he's sorry, huh? [no answer] You done paid me back, Miss. You didn't even leave me a drop. Miss, have a heart. Fair is fair. You gotta say somethin', I don't care what it is, but you gotta say something. I'll be honest with ya, Miss. I, I just can't stand no more of this. I-I just ain't used to it, that's all.

 * Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared, Miss, not one little bit. Ain't no person in their right mind ain't scared of white water.
 * Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
 * Charlie Allnut: How's that, Miss?
 * Rose Sayer: I've only known such excitement a few times before - a few times in my dear brother's sermons when the spirit was really upon him.
 * Charlie Allnut: You mean you want to go on?
 * Rose Sayer: Naturally.
 * Charlie Allnut: Miss, you're crazy.
 * Rose Sayer: I beg your pardon.
 * Charlie Allnut: You know what would have happened if we would have come up against one of them rocks?
 * Rose Sayer: But we didn't. I must say I'm filled with admiration for your skill, Mr. Allnut. Do you suppose I'll try practice steering a bit that someday I might try? I can hardly wait... Now that I've had a taste of it. I don't wonder you love boating, Mr. Allnut.

 * Rose Sayer: Don't be worried, Mr. Allnut.
 * Charlie Allnut: Oh, I ain't worried, Miss. Gave myself up for dead back where we started.

Cast

 * Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnut
 * Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer
 * Robert Morley - Rev. Samuel Sayer
 * Peter Bull - German captain of the Louisa
 * Theodore Bikel - First Officer

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User talk:72.204.5.50

Please stop removing content from Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. This refers the recent edit you made to the Definitions of anarchism page. If you have an issue with any of the quotes, please open a dialogue on the page's Talk page, rather than just removing the quotes. Thank you. ~ UDScott 20:19, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Again, please stop just removing content from Wikiquote. Also, please do not remove the VFD tag -- those must stay in place until the voting period has been completed. If you would like to register your vote, feel free. But please refrain from removing things. Thank you. ~ UDScott 20:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:24.60.69.234

~ UDScott 20:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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User:Thomas

Contact: Thomas @ German Wikiquote

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User:MessiahAndrw~enwikiquote

Andrew A. Price (born February 13, 1989), was a South Australian student (now a banana bender), whom's life closely resembles that of an unstructured British comedy. Visit his Wikipedia user page here.

Life
"Life is like butter. It smells when it goes off."

"If you don't try, then you'll never succeed. But then again, if you try and you fail, you'll feel like crap anyway".

"Life is full risks, so why would you risk your life? Because then without life, there would be no more risks, and therefore your life would wouldn't be worth much anymore. Not to mention that fact of you being dead."

The World
"The world is not flat nor round, it is bumpy."

"What's the point of countries combining armies if there's no one to go to war with?"

"You can't have world peace and a world without poverty, as world peace would render millions of military personel homeless."

Religious
"God is like the Matrix, we live inside of him."

"I hope God doesn't GPF."

"Thy who thinks and ponders, is thy who ponders and thinks."

Science
"Imagine floating in a swimming pool in space. Now imagine trying to swim out of it. With no friction or gravity, the bubble of water will follow you as you try to swim away."

"Why is so much money invested into the future of fission and fusion power, when it is quite obvious that the energy sources mentioned are not considered reusable, and therefore will eventually run out. So investing in their future isn't exactly a wise move."

Self-confidence
"It's not being cold that I love the best about winter. It's being warm while everyone else is cold!"

"I('m,'ve) [Insert good personal quality here] but you're making me [insert boring job here]? You call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't."

"If you pretend to be someone you're not, would it still be pretending if you've done it so many times that it's now how you normally act?"

"It's a lot easier to tell the truth, there's less to remember."

"It's not being me I love the best about being me. It's when I observe other people's lives, then compare them to my own that I become greatful I'm not them."

"He who wants may not always be he who gets. But then getting some thing that I don't want isn't that fun neither. Therefore, for me to enjoy what is given to me I must want everything."

Miscillanious
"Mothers make the world go round. Because they sit there ordering everyone else around!"

"It's the atmosphere that counts." (When deciding one place over another.)

"If you haven't fixed it in the last 5 years, chances are you'll never fix it. Throw it away!" (Said while telling his farther to clear out the garage.)

"One plus one didn't equal two, and you thought something seemed wrong." (When someone just regonised something obviously wrong.)

"If it were not for Apple or the open source community, then Microsoft would have no motivation and we would all still be using Windows 95."

"Give him some money, he has to make a living." (Said to his parents after watching a busker.)

"Hey!" (Most used greeting.)

"Guess what?"

"You laughed when I said I'll tell you a joke, but you're not laughing now!"

"The phone was engaged. Heartbroken, I found out my bed is still single."

Attributed
"You'll be a [profanity removed] billionaire by the time you're twenty." - Cameron

"There is nothing wrong with lying, just make sure you don't get caught." - Michael

"You better not say 'if he can do it I can'!" - Michael

"Well, Andrew says lots." - Tony

"Are you ready for school?" - His mother

"Stuff you, Noob!" - David

"Lol!" - David (said aloud)

"Andz....!" - Savana

"Have you finished it yet?" - Julia

Not actually said
"..." (Most used instant messaging line)

"LOL"

"ROFL"

"brb"

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Half Nelson (film)

Half Nelson is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 American film, directed by, written by Fleck and.

Dan

 * The sun goes up and then it comes down, but everytime that happens what do you get? You get a new day.
 * One thing doesn't make a man.
 * If I had a copy of Mein Kampf, would that make me a Nazi?

Cast

 * Ryan Gosling — Dan

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Talk:John Wayne Gacy

Unsourced

 * A clown can get away with murder.

 * I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.

 * There's been 11 hardback books on me, 31 paperbacks, two screenplays, one movie, one off-Broadway play, five songs, and over 5,000 articles. What can I say about it? I have no ego for any of this garbage.
 * To a reporter in a phone interview the day of his execution.

 * They were just a bunch of worthless little queers and punks.
 * About his victims

 * You can kiss my ass.
 * To a prison guard who asked him if he had last words before his execution.

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User talk:66.142.96.222

Thank you for experimenting with the page Talk:Greek proverbs on Wikiquote. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our quotation compendium. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Aantony

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User talk:Frankei~enwikiquote

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User talk:Chaudhary

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User talk:Patchouli

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User talk:Scottiebooy

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User talk:MessiahAndrw~enwikiquote

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called MessiahAndrw. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MessiahAndrw~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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User talk:Alan-WK~enwikiquote

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Alan-WK~enwikiquote


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User talk:Mrsgrintright

Welcome
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title: User talk:Mrsgrintright


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User talk:Han G Thesobs~enwikiquote

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Han G Thesobs. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Han G Thesobs~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:48, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Han G Thesobs~enwikiquote