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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since January 2019. First elected to Congress in 1987, she is the only woman to have served as speaker. Pelosi is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is in her 17th term as a congresswoman, representing California's 12th congressional district (since 2013), which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco.

She was the highest-ranking elected woman in United States history until Kamala Harris became VP. Pelosi announced on November 17, 2023 she is standing down as leader of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives at the end of the present term in January 2023.

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 * A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
 * Interview with ABC News, as quoted by Hilary Clinton.

 * Are you serious? Are you serious?
 * When asked :"Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JByUpfmjQ

 * Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?" (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek

 * Democrats are not about getting even. Democrats are about helping the American people get ahead, and that’s what our agenda is about. So while some people are excited about prospects that they have in terms of their priorities, they are not our priorities. I have said, and I say again, that impeachment is off the table
 * Pelosi’s no fan of impeachment: Just ask Clinton and Bush mentioned in an AP article on March 20, 2019

2003

 * The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985

2005

 * Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.
 * Referring to George W. Bush on Fox News (March 17, 2005)

 * [T]hey had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
 * The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (November 30, 2005)

2006

 * I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

 * As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one—it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.
 * To The Agribusiness Club of Washington (July 24, 2006)

 * The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
 * Post-election comments, 2006-11-7.

 * Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.
 * Interview with Barbara Walters (December 13, 2006)

2007

 * I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

2008

 * Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland.
 * Referring to Bertie Ahern (Ah-hern) at a joint meeting of the US Congress at Capital Hill in Washington (April 30, 2008) http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0430/ahernb.html

 * By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

 * Your recent meetings with Chinese dissidents at the White House are to be commended. However, your participation at the opening ceremony of the Olympics will send a signal to the Chinese people and the international community that could be misperceived as your approval, and that of the American people, for the draconian policies of the Chinese government. Therefore, it is essential that you unambiguously speak out for human rights and meet with the families of jailed prisoners of conscience while you are in Beijing. (In a letter to President Bush prior to his 2008 trip to Beijing's Summer Olympic Games

 * "Can we drill your brains?"(responding to attendants who interrupted her speech by chanting "Drill here! Drill now!")

 * The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

 * "Why don't we just leave this room today forgetting the word 'earmark'?"-June 2007

 * With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

 * This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

 * I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008

2009

 * Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory...of how we are taking responsibility.

2010

 * You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
 * 9 March, 2010. Source: Having to pass a bill to know what is does is a Grin and Bear It cartoon punchline from 1947, paraphased in a 1948 Indiana Law Journal article by then Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter was in turn cited in 2015's decision in King v. Burwell, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, which turned on a complication in the very law resulting from the bill Pelosi was above describing.

 * You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
 * 11 November 2010

2012

 * [Under the Affordable Care Act ] everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.
 * NBC-TV Meet the Press (July 1, 2012)

2018

 * I have said to people when they ask me, if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.
 * During 2018 IAC National Conference (December 12, 2018)

2019

 * The racist, homophobic attack on @JussieSmollett is an affront to our humanity, No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love. I pray that Jussie has a speedy recovery & that justice is served. May we all commit to ending this hate once & for all.
 * Regarding Jussie Smollett (January 30, 2019)

 * The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of betrayal of his oath of office and betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections
 * Read: Nancy Pelosi’s full statement on launching Trump impeachment inquiry (By Jen Kirbyjen.kirby@vox.com Sep 24, 2019, 6:05pm EDT)

Announcement of Official Impeachment Inquiry against President Donald Trump (2019)

 * "Pelosi Remarks Announcing Impeachment Inquiry" (September 24, 2019)

Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the Congress that the Administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. On Constitution Day. This is a violation of law. Shortly thereafter, press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. The facts are these: the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who was appointed by President Trump, determined that the complaint is both of "urgent concern and credible," and its disclosure, he went on to say, that it "relates to one of the most significant and important of the Director of National Intelligence"s responsibilities to the American people." On Thursday, the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Committee, stating that the Acting Director of National Intelligence blocked him from disclosing the whistleblower complaint. This is a violation of the law.
 * Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on September 17.

They asked Benjamin Franklin, "What do we have: a republic or a monarchy?" '''Franklin replied: "A republic, if you can keep it." Our responsibility is to keep it.'''
 * On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our Founders had crafted.

The actions taken to date by the President have seriously violated the Constitution — especially when the President says, "Article II says, I can do whatever I want."
 * Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our Constitution, enshrined in three co-equal branches of government, serving as checks and balances on each other.

Therefore, today, I am announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.''' I am directing our six Committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. '''The President must be held accountable. No one is above the law.'''
 * The action of — '''the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the President's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.

 * Getting back to our Founders — in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: "The times have found us." The times found them to fight for and establish our democracy. The times have found us today, not to place ourselves in the same category of greatness as our Founders, but to place us in the urgency of protecting and defending our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In the words of Ben Franklin, to keep our Republic.

2020

 * It's Sunday morning. Let's be optimistic about the future, a future that will not have Donald Trump in the White House one way or another.
 * interview (January 12, 2020)

 * But it's Sunday morning, let's be optimistic about the future -- a future that *will not* have Trump in the White House one way or another.
 * Tweet (January 12, 2020)

 * The Trump Administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our values and the rule of law. The sweeping rule, barring more than 350 million individuals from predominantly African nations from traveling to the United States, is discrimination disguised as policy.
 * Newsroom statements (January 31, 2020)

 * Whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving
 * Concerning Donald Trump (July 20, 2020)

 * China would prefer Joe Biden, whether they do, that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden. Russia is actively, 24/7 interfering in our election. They did so in 2016, and they are doing so now. And they [the intelligence community] say that to a certain extent, but they need to tell the American People more. The American People, I believe, think they should decide who the President of the United States is, not Vladimir Putin making that decision for us.
 * CNN Interview (August 9, 2020) quoted in

 * A brazen invitation for something like this to happen
 * Video "Trump's behaviour was 'brazen invitation' for COVID-19 infection" (October 2, 2020)

 * I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected President on Tuesday, whatever the end count is
 * (October 29, 2020)

 * Today, with confidence in science & at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the COVID-19 vaccine. As the vaccine is being distributed, we must all continue mask wearing, social distancing & other science-based steps to save lives & crush the virus.
 * via twitter (December 18, 2020)

2021

 * @SenSchumer and I are calling on President Trump to demand that all protestors leave the U.S. Capitol and Capitol grounds immediately.
 * via Twitter tweet (January 6, 2021)

 * I have ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Officer Sicknick’s honor. The sacrifice of Officer Sicknick reminds us of our obligation to those we serve: to protect our country from all threats foreign and domestic. May it be a comfort to Officer Sicknick’s family that so many mourn with and pray for them at this sad time.
 * Pelosi Statement on Death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick (January 8, 2020)

 * I ask that you immediately cease plans to improperly install Michael Ellis as the new NSA General Counsel.
 * Letter to Christopher Miller according to Pelosi demands acting Pentagon chief halt his order to NSA to install Trump loyalist as general counsel (January 18, 2021)

 * Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice .. your name will always be synonymous with justice.
 * Cited by HuffPost (April 20, 2021)

 * I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes.
 * Let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week
 * "Pelosi on infrastructure bill: 'I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes'" (September 26, 2021)

 * Discussions continue with the House, Senate and White House to reach a bicameral framework agreement to Build Back Better through a reconciliation bill.
 * All of this momentum brings us closer to shaping the reconciliation bill in a manner that will pass the House and Senate
 * In a letter with the promise: “More to follow" "Democrats scramble to satisfy centrists with Biden’s agenda on the line" (September 30, 2021)

 * In order to pass both the Build Back Better Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill on time, it is essential that difficult decisions must be made very soon.
 * Overwhelmingly, the guidance I am receiving from Members is to do fewer things well so that we can still have a transformative impact on families in the workplace and responsibly address the climate crisis: a Build Back Better agenda for jobs and the planet For The Children!
 * At the same time, we must lift the debt ceiling and hope that we can have a unanimous Democratic vote and perhaps a bipartisan vote to do so
 * "Pelosi writes to Democrats about Build Back Better" (October 12, 2021)

 * The sad loss of Colin Powell is another sad indication of the devastating toll that the coronavirus continues to take on our country.  As we pray for the General Powell’s loved ones, we pray for the families of the nearly 725,000 Americans who have been taken from us by this vicious virus.
 * "Pelosi Statement on Passing of Colin Powell" (October 18, 2021)

 * I'll let you know as soon as I wish to
 * "Pelosi tells Democratic leaders she wants House votes on infrastructure bills this week" (November4, 2021)

 * Election night was not a good night for Democrats
 * "Election night 'not a good night' for Democrats, Nancy Pelosi says" (November4) (Youtube video) talking about the loss of the Virginia governor's seat.

2022

 * Twelve years ago, when President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, our nation took an historic step toward fulfilling a fundamental promise: that health care is a right, not a privilege
 * Pelosi Statement on 12th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (March 23, 2022)

 * The justice of the Supreme Court has to at least have a code of ethics, A, and B, why should they have lower standards than members of Congress in terms of reporting and the rest?
 * ‘’"Pelosi calls for Supreme Court code of ethics", The Hill (March 31, 2022)

 * We are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom — that we’re on a frontier of freedom, and that your fight is a fight for everyone. And so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.
 * Remarks to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted in "Pelosi makes unannounced trip to Kyiv, becoming highest-ranking US official to meet with Zelensky since the war began" by Michelle Watson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN (May 1, 2022); also in "Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine, says commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done'", Global News (May 1, 2022)

 * Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine. Our meeting with President Zelenskyy began with him thanking the United States for the substantial assistance that we have provided.  He conveyed the clear need for continued security, economic and humanitarian assistance from the United States to address the devastating human toll taken on the Ukrainian people by Putin's diabolic invasion — and our delegation proudly delivered the message that additional American support is on the way, as we work to transform President Biden’s strong funding request into a legislative package.  Our delegation conveyed our respect and gratitude to President Zelenskyy for his leadership and our admiration of the Ukrainian people for their courage in the fight against Russia’s oppression.
 * "Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Kyiv, Ukraine" Speaker.gov (May 1, 2022)

 * This is not right, this is not the path of freedom for our country
 * Interviews with: Gov. Kathy Hochul, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Pete Ricketts, Finland President Sauli Niinistö. (May 15, 2022 video)
 * On the anti-Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision

 * Today, I joined Dana Bash on CNN's State of the Union for an interview discussing how House Democrats are working to stop gun violence, fighting to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law and taking action on the baby formula shortage.
 * Speaker Pelosi on CNN's State of the Union with Dana Bash (May 15, 2022 Youtube video)

We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving. Please know that the outpouring of prayers and warm wishes from so many in the Congress is a comfort to our family and is helping Paul make progress with his recovery. His condition continues to improve.
 * Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul. Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop.
 * Cited by Joanna Walters in "Biden says it appears attack on Paul Pelosi intended for House Speaker" The Guardian (October 30, 2022)

 * And whatever happens, we will respect the results of the election.
 * Transcript of Pelosi Interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 ("NOVEMBER 7, 2022 PRESS RELEASE")

 * When I came to the Congress in 1987, there were 12 Democratic women. Now there are over 90 — and we want more.
 * The new members of our Democratic caucus will be about 75 percent women, people of color and LGBTQ
 * The remarkable increase in House diversity during Pelosi’s tenure (Analysis by Philip Bump National columnist Updated November 17, 2022 at 3:19 p.m. EST|Published November 17, 2022 at 3:11 p.m. EST)

Reaction to the Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade (May 2022)

 * "Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion", Politico (3 May 2022)

 * The Republican-appointed Justices' reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.

 * Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation — all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century.

 * The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the party of Trump. Every Republican Senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices pretending that this day would never come will now have to explain themselves to the American people

Declining to seek re-election to Democratic leadership (17 November 2022)

 * "Pelosi Floor Speech on Future Plans"; also online at "Full Transcript of Nancy Pelosi’s Speech", The New York Times (17 November 2022)

I was riding in the car with my brothers, and they were thrilled and jumping up and down and saying to me, "Nancy, look, there’s the Capitol." And I keep — every time I’d say: "I don’t see any capital. Is it a capital A, a capital B or a capital C?" And finally, I saw it. A stunning white building with a magnificent dome. '''I believed then, as I believe today, this is the most beautiful building in the world because of what it represents. The Capitol is a temple of our democracy, of our Constitution, of our highest ideals.''' On that day — on that day, '''I stood with my father on this floor as he took the sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. All of us who have served in this House have taken the hallowed oath of office.''' And it is the oath that stitches us together in a long and storied heritage. Colleagues who served before us are all our colleagues. Colleagues like Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Shirley Chisholm, Patsy Mink and our beloved John Lewis. Personally, it binds me as a colleague to my father, a proud New Deal congressman and one of the earliest Italian Americans to serve in the Congress. And this is an oath we are duty bound to keep, and it links us with the highest aspirations of the ages.
 * I will never forget the first time I saw the Capitol. It was on a cold January day when I was 6 years old. My father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., was about to be sworn in for his fifth term in Congress representing our beloved hometown of Baltimore.

Indeed, it is here, under the gaze of our patriarch, George Washington, in the people’s House, that we have done the people’s work. My colleagues, I stand before you as speaker of the House, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a devout Catholic, a proud Democrat and a patriotic American, a citizen of the greatest republic in the history of the world — which President Lincoln called the last best hope on Earth. Indeed, in the words attributed to another of our colleagues, the legendary Daniel Webster, he said: "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in 6,000 years cannot be expected to happen often." Indeed, American democracy is majestic. But it is fragile. Many of us here have witnessed its fragility firsthand — tragically, in this chamber. And so democracy must be forever defended from forces that wish it harm.
 * In this room, our colleagues across history have abolished slavery; granted women the right to vote; established Social Security and Medicare; offered a hand to the weak, care to the sick, education to the young and hope to the many.

With these elections, the people stood in the breach and repelled the assault on democracy.''' They resoundingly rejected violence and insurrection, and in doing so gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. And now we owe to the American people our very best, to deliver on their faith. To forever reach for the more perfect union — the glorious horizon that our founders promised. The questions before this Congress and at this moment are urgent. Questions about the ideals that this House is charged by the Constitution to preserve and protect. Establish justice. Ensure domestic tranquillity. Provide for the common defense. Promote the general welfare. And secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Our posterity. Our children. Babies born today will live into the next century. And our decisions will determine their future for generations to come. '''While we will have our disagreements on policy, we must remain fully committed to our shared fundamental mission, to hold strong to our most treasured democratic ideals, to cherish the spark of divinity in each and every one of us, and to always put our country first. In their infinite wisdom, our founders gave us their guidance: e pluribus unum. From the many, one.''' They could not have imagined how large our country would become or how different we would be from one another. But they knew we had to be united as one. We the people. One country. One destiny.
 * '''Last week, the American people spoke, and their voices were raised in defense of liberty, of the rule of law and of democracy itself.

When I came to the Congress in 1987, there were 12 Democratic women. Now there are over 90. And we want more. The new members of our Democratic caucus will be about 75 percent women, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q. And we have brought more voices to the decision-making table. When I entered leadership in 2002, there were eight of us. Today, there are 17 members of the leadership. When I first came to the floor at 6 years old, never would I have thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House speaker. In fact, I never — in fact, I never intended to run for public office. Mommy and Daddy taught us through their example that public service is a noble calling and that we all have a responsibility to help others. In our family, my brother Tommy then became mayor of Baltimore also. But it’s been my privilege to play a part in forging extraordinary progress for the American people.
 * It’s been with great pride in my 35 years in the House I have seen this body grow more reflective of our great nation, our beautiful nation.

Now we must move boldly into the future, grounded by the principles that have propelled us this far and open to fresh possibilities for the future.
 * I have enjoyed working with three presidents, achieving historic investments in clean energy with President George Bush; transformative health care reform with President Barack Obama; and forging — and forging the future from infrastructure to health care to climate action with President Joe Biden.

And with great confidence in our caucus, '''I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress. For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect.''' And I am grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility.
 * Scripture teaches us that for everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. My friends, no matter what title you all, my colleagues, have bestowed upon me — speaker, leader, whip — there is no greater official honor for me than to stand on this floor and to speak for the people of San Francisco. This I will continue to do as a member of the House, speaking for the people of San Francisco, serving the great state of California and defending our Constitution.

A new day is dawning on the horizon, and '''I look forward, always forward, to the unfolding story of our nation, a story of light and love, of patriotism and progress, of many becoming one. And always an unfinished mission to make the dreams of today the reality of tomorrow.'''
 * In this House, we begin each day with a prayer and a pledge to the flag. And every day I am in awe of the majestic miracle that is American democracy. As we participate in a hallmark of our republic — the peaceful, orderly transition from one Congress to the next — let us consider the words of, again, President Lincoln, spoken during one of America’s darkest hours. He called upon us to come together, to swell the chorus of the union, when once again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. That again is the task at hand.

 * It is clear that House Democratic Members and candidates are strongly outperforming expectations across the country. As states continue to tabulate the final results, every vote must be counted as cast. Many thanks to our grassroots volunteers for enabling every voter to have their say in our Democracy
 * Nancy Pelosi issued a statement on the results, saying that while there are several races that remain too close to call

2023

 * CNN interview on proposed expungement of Donald Trump's impeachment being added actively

2024

 * For them to call for a ceasefire is Mr Putin’s message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see. Same thing with Ukraine. It’s about Putin’s message. I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some, I think, are connected to Russia. Seeds or plants. I think some financing should be investigated. And I want to ask the FBI to investigate that.
 * Pelosi condemned for suggesting pro-Palestinian activists have ties to Russia (January 29, 2024)

 * Go back to China, that’s where your headquarters is.
 * Nancy Pelosi was caught on camera asking pro-Palestinian protesters to 'go back to China' (January 29, 2023)

Quotes about Pelosi

 * Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?
 * AP source: Assailant shouted 'Where is Nancy?' in attack (4 minutes ago)

 * House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is similarly enamored of this rhetoric of bipartisan comity in the face of a Republican Party whose members are caught in the grip of a cult of personality marked by conspiratorial thinking and an open contempt for electoral democracy. “It might come as a surprise to some of you that the president I quote most often is President Reagan,” Pelosi said at the ribbon-cutting for the Washington branch of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. “The good humor of our president was really a tonic for the nation, the gentleman that he was.” And last month, she told an audience in Miami that she wants a “strong Republican Party” that can return to where it was when it “cared about a woman’s right to choose” and “cared about the environment.” Of course, the ideologically moderate Republican Party that Pelosi seems to want resurrected was largely dead by the time she entered national politics in the late 1970s, bludgeoned into submission with the notable help of Ronald Reagan, among other figures.
 * Jamelle Bouie Article (2022)

 * I think there’s a deeper divide, between a politics that sees the grass roots as an asset to use and cultivate versus one that treats it as a complication to manage. It’s a “leader knows best” approach that may squander the Democratic Party’s advantage of enthusiasm and drive against a corrupt and unpopular president. It even seems as though for Democrats like Pelosi, the only political actions that truly matter are either in the legislature or at the ballot box. It’s an understandable view for a leadership class whose political memories stretch back to the devastating Democratic losses of 1968 and 1972 (to say nothing of 1980 and 1984). But it’s also bred of a deep aversion to risk-taking, even when circumstances warrant bold action.
 * Jamelle Bouie Article (2019)

 * A large number of proud Jewish Americans — raised to believe in civil liberties and open discussion — are appalled by the campaign to muzzle Rep. Ilhan Omar, as well as Speaker Pelosi’s role in it. We’re also appalled that human-rights-abusing Israel is virtually off-limits to debate. … Rep. Omar has made a simple and undeniable point — that AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and the funding it influences exert extraordinary power over Congress. Disputing that point is flat-earther terrain. The Capitol Hill farce of an “anti-hate” resolution would provide still more evidence on behalf of her argument. Unfortunately, all the vague media references to Rep Omar’s “anti-Semitic remarks” obscure how truthful and non-hateful those comments were.
 * Jeff Cohen, in "This Jew Tells Speaker Pelosi: 'You May Well Prove Ilhan Omar Correct'", CounterPunch (7 March 2019)

 * in 2002 and 2003, top Democrats, including current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, raised almost no formal objections to torture techniques, including waterboarding, after being briefed on it by the CIA.
 * Amy Goodman Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008)

 * I think Nancy Pelosi is extremely qualified to be speaker of the House, because she has been speaker of the House. I trust her leadership. I trust her judgment. I think that she is the person we need right now. And perhaps when we move forward and, you know, our politics isn’t as, you know, in a critical sort of era, that, yes, we—if she’s ready to pass the mantle on, I will absolutely support another qualified individual. But currently, I think she would do a good job.
 * Deb Haaland Interview with Democracy Now (November 2018)

 * The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided
 * Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammil US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid (April 7, 2022)

 * The leadership of the party, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Tom Perez, are creations of corporate America. In an open and democratic political process, one not dominated by party elites and corporate money, these people would not hold political power. They know this. They would rather implode the entire system than give up their positions of privilege. And that, I fear, is what will happen. The idea that the Democratic Party is in any way a bulwark against despotism defies the last three decades of its political activity. It is the guarantor of despotism.
 * Chris Hedges in The Coming Collapse, Common Dreams, (21 May 2018)

 * I don't think people are buying such a performance. I also don't believe that people are buying Pelosi's little kente-cloth, "take a knee in solidarity with Black Lives Matter" trick either....
 * Chris Hedges, Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — "ugly corporate tyranny" or revolution, Chuncey Devega, Salon (16 July 2020)

 * Paid leave should be a national right, rather than a patchwork option limited to those whose employers have policies in place, or those who live in one of the few states where a leave program exists
 * Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in a letter to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, urges Schumer and Pelosi to pass federal paid family leave" (October 21, 2021)

 * [She is] as effective as any legislative leader I’ve seen in managing a diverse and often contentious group of folks with a lot of different points of view.”
 * Barrack Obama "Exclusive: How Donald Trump upended Nancy Pelosi’s plans, then she unraveled his" article published April 16, 2021

 * Influence and enemies go hand in hand. I learned this lesson explicitly from Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to become Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and someone I admire greatly. In the summer of 2019, she invited me on a congressional delegation to Ghana. During the flight, she told me about her journey: from her first campaign in 1987 when she was elected to Congress to becoming the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history, not once but twice. Then she turned the conversation to me. "It is really moving to see the number of people who come out to support you," she said. "Yes, but every time I'm attacked, the attack seems to be amplified by the support," I replied, confiding in her because it might make more sense to her than to most. "Sometimes I wish I could shoo them all away and take the beating myself so that I don't continue to feed the craziness." She sighed and looked at me with a maternal gaze, one that had a lot of knowledge behind it. Nancy is the kind of person who, by the time we landed, knew Ghana's economy down to the percentage change in its cocoa bean exports over the last year but who also put a blanket around me when I fell asleep in my seat. "The amount of money that is spent on ads and anything else to try to take me down is mind-boggling," she said. "The truth is, it is a badge of honor to have many people invested in one's failure. If they weren't this afraid of your power, they wouldn't work so hard to erode it." To hear that message from the powerful being she is meant more than words can express.
 * Ilhan Omar This is What America Looks Like (2021)

 * In Munich this past weekend at the Security Conference the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, nailed her anti-Chinese colours to the mast. Despite being a liberal on many issues and the leader of the fight to impeach President Donald Trump, she has joined forces with Trump in preaching that the West must not allow itself to be penetrated by Huawei’s 5G phone technology, (which is cheaper than any Western counterpart). But she appeared to have no response to a former Chinese ambassador to the UK who asked what was wrong with Huawei seeking Western markets when Microsoft, Google and Facebook were such big players in China. The Chinese government didn’t feel its security was threatened by them.  He could also have added that if they do anything that the Chinese government doesn’t like China is always able to deal with it... China has not gone to war since 1979.  It has not used lethal military force abroad since 1988... China does not fly through US airspace.
 * It’s Rubbish to Trash China, by Jonathan Power, Counter Punch, (March 5, 2020)

 * ("Do you think Nancy Pelosi should be House speaker?") Leader Pelosi is an incredible person and has done an incredible job. But at some point we have to make decisions on whether or not we want to be able to get someone there that can speak to the various challenges and issues of my families back home in the 13th Congressional District. They’re my priority. And right now the stance around Dodd-Frank, the stance around a number of issues are troubling for me. And so that’s why I have been very much saying that probably not. I haven’t spoken to Leader Pelosi. I don’t want to use this as, you know, giving you some general, generic response. I can tell you I most likely want to lean toward someone that will be more in line with the civil rights issues of my district.
 * Rashida Tlaib interview with Democracy Now (2018)

 * There was a strange aftertaste to many of the calls for grand social reform in 2020. As the coronavirus crisis overtook us, the left wing on both sides of the Atlantic, at least that part that had been fired up Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, was going down to defeat. The promise of a radicalized and reenergized left, organized around the idea of the Green New Deal, seemed to dissipate amidst the pandemic. It fell to governments mainly of the center and the right to meet the crisis. They were a strange assortment. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Donald Trump in the United States experimented with denial. For them climate skepticism and virus skepticism went hand in hand. In Mexico, the notionally left-wing government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador also pursued a maverick path, refusing to take drastic action. Nationalist strongmen like Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, Vladimir Putin in Russia, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey did not deny the virus, but relied on their patriotic appeal and bullying tactics to see them through. It was the managerial centrist types who were under most pressure. Figures like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the United States, or Sebastián Piñera in Chile, or Cyril Ramaphosa in South Africa, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, and their ilk in Europe. They accepted the science. Denial was not an option. They were desperate to demonstrate that they were better than the 'populists.' To meet the crisis, very middle-of-the-road politicians ended up doing very radical things. Most of it was improvisation and compromise, but insofar as they managed to put a programmatic gloss on their responses—whether in the form of the EU's Next Generation program or Biden's Build Back Better program in 2020—it came from the repertoire of green modernization, sustainable development, and the Green New Deal.
 * Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy (2021)

 * "So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics. In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!"
 * Donald Trump on Twitter

 * Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19. We made a very generous offer of $1.6 Trillion Dollars and, as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith. I am rejecting their request, and looking to the future of our Country,
 * President Trump in Trump says he will not negotiate on COVID relief until after election

 * If you had the opportunity to save a million people from preventable death, would you do it? … This is not merely a rhetorical question, but one that members of the Congress will have to answer in the present… Right now, legislation has already passed the House of Representatives that would do just that. And it was included in the newly released COVID relief bill that is being negotiated between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. It would require the Treasury Department, which represents our government at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to support a multi-trillion dollar relief package from the Fund... And they do not cost the U.S. government anything at all — not now, and not at any time in the future.  The IMF leadership, and almost all of the 189 member countries — including U.S. allies such as Germany and Canada — are ready to allocate the aid that Congress is considering... It would take almost no effort to include the House or Senate bill that would unblock Treasury’s hold on the IMF funding…
 * Mark Weisbrot, If you could save a million lives, would you do it?, The Hill (1 October 2020)

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McLintock!

McLintock! is a 1963 film in which wealthy rancher G. W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.
 * Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, written by James Edward Grant.

'''He likes his whiskey hard... His women soft... And his west all to himself!'''taglines

George Washington McLintock

 * Don't tell me it's a fine morning, or I'll shoot ya!

 * Becky! Come here. Somethin' I ought to tell you. Guess now's as good a time as any. You're going to have every young buck west of the Missouri around here tryin' to marry you - mostly because you're a handsome filly, but partly because I own everything in this country from here to there. They'll think you're going to inherit it. Well, you're not. I'm going to leave most of it to, well, to the nation really, for a park where no lumbermen'll cut down all the trees for houses with leaky roofs. Nobody'll kill all the beaver for hats for dudes nor murder the buffalo for robes. What I'm going to give you is a 500 cow spread on the Upper Green River. Now that may not seem like much, but it's more than we had, your mother and I. Some folks are gonna say I'm doin' all this so I can sit up in the hereafter and look down on a park named after me, or that I was disappointed in you - didn't want you to get all that money. But the real reason, Becky, is because I love you, and I want you and some young man to have what I had, because all the gold in the United States Treasury and all the harp music in heaven can't equal what happens between a man and a woman with all that growin' together. I can't explain it any better than that.

 * This is probably the first marriage I've ever seen that started out with a spanking!

 * I've got a touch of hangover, bureaucrat. Don't push me.

 * Cuthbert H. Humphrey, Governor of our territory, is a cull. Do you know what a cull is, ma'am? A cull is a specimen that is so worthless that you have to cut him out of the herd. Now if all the people in the world were put in one herd, Cuthbert is the one I would throw a rope at.

 * I came close to killing you a couple of times when I was younger. Saddens me I didn't.

 * If these settlers get burned out, there'll be a lot of hollerin' that this country is too wild to be a state. We'll go on bein' a territory some more, with a lot of political appointees runnin' it according to what they learned in some college where they think cows are somethin' you milk and Indians are somethin' in front of a cigar store.

Dialogue

 * Farmer: The government gave us each one hundred and sixty acres.
 * George Washington McLintock: The government never gave anybody anything. You make these homesteads go, you'll have earned every acre of it. You just can't make 'em go on the Mesa Verde! God made that land fer buffalo. Serves pretty well for cattle. But it hates the plow! And even the government should know that you can't farm six thousand feet above sea level.

 * Drago: Boss, what's "reactionary" mean?
 * George Washington McLintock: I guess he says that anyone who sells at a profit is a reactionary

 * Devlin: I am just a hired hand around here
 * George Washington McLintock: Every so often Dev, you spell the strangest ideas. Everybody works for somebody. I work for everybody in these United States that steps into a butcher shop for a T-Bone steak and you work for me, it is not much difference

 * Drago: I'm sorry Katherine - that Katie just slipped out from times when I remember you as being nice people...
 * Katherine McLintock: Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face while the hired help insults your wife?
 * George Washington McLintock: He can't help it - he's just ignorant. He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth. And I can't help this stupid look. I started acquiring it as you gained in social prominence!

 * George Washington McLintock: [through gritted teeth after knocking Jones down] Now, we'll all calm down!
 * Drago: Boss, he's just a little excited.
 * George Washington McLintock: I know, I know. I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't! [belts Jones in the mouth]

 * Katherine McClintock: [after walking out of her bedroom to find G.W. and Mrs. Warren at the bottom of the stairs] What's going on here?
 * George Washington McLintock: [Intoxicated, with Mrs. Warren sitting on his lap] Now Katherine, are you going to believe what you see, or what I tell you?

 * George Washington McLintock: [McLintock and his family are standing on the porch looking up at Ching the cook. Ching is standing there with a rather large meat cleaver] Well you old Cantonese reprobate, how 'bout it?
 * Ching: Ya fire me? I kill myself!
 * George Washington McLintock: I'm not talkin' about firing you I'm RETIRING you! You've been rustlin' food for us for forty years! We're gonna put you out to pasture. All you'll have to do is give advice, be one of the family!
 * Ching: I kill myself!
 * George Washington McLintock: I may save you the trouble.
 * Drago: Hey Ching, you kill yourself, I'll cut of your pigtail and y'ain't never gonna get to Heaven!
 * [Swishes his pocketknife at Ching; Ching pauses]
 * Ching: I'll be one of the family?
 * George Washington McLintock: I give you my solemn word.
 * Ching: Pretty crummy family! Drinkee too muchee! Get in fight! Yell alla time!
 * George Washington McLintock: [Gestures at Drago] Cut off his pigtail!
 * [Drago starts to walk up the stairs, pocketknife in hand]
 * Ching: ALRIGHT, I BE ONE OF THE FAMILY!

 * Becky McLintock: You are my father and if you do love me you will shoot him!
 * George Washington McLintock: I'm your father and I sure love you. [grabs a pistol from his cabinet and shoots Devlin]
 * Becky McLintock: You shot him! You really shot him! If he dies...
 * George Washington McLintock: [Interrupts Becky] If he dies he will be the first man killed with a blank cartridge . We use this to start the races on the fourth.
 * Becky McLintock: [to Devlin] You poor dear.
 * Devlin Warren: Poor dear? You would've had me shot down in cold blood! Yelling I insulted you an all. What you need is a good spanking.
 * Becky McLintock: Daddy?
 * George Washington McLintock: Leave me out of this.
 * Devlin Warren: And I think I'll give you what you deserve.
 * Becky McLintock: You wouldn' dare!

 * George Washington McLintock: I saw your picture in the paper at the Governor's Ball. You were dancing with the governor.
 * Katherine McClintock: At least he's a gentleman.
 * George Washington McLintock: I doubt that. You have to be a man first before you're a gentleman. He misses on both counts.

 * Drago: That divorce business. Is that whatcha get when you paya woman not to live with ya?
 * George Washington McLintock: That's about it.
 * Drago: Some women I know'd be worth it.

Taglines

 * He likes his whiskey hard... His women soft... And his west all to himself!

 * Never such a tender love story! Never such a savage showdown! Never such restless natives!

 * What has McLintock got that makes it different from all other westerns? It's got a tender love story! It's got good clean fun! It's got a warm story of family devotion!

 * He tamed the West... But Could He Tame Her?

 * Wallops The Daylights Out Of Every Western You've Ever Seen!

Cast

 * John Wayne - George Washington "G.W." McLintock
 * Maureen O'Hara - Katherine "Kate" McLintock
 * Patrick Wayne - Devlin "Dev" Warren
 * Stefanie Powers - Rebecca "Becky" McLintock
 * Jack Kruschen - Jake Birnbaum
 * Chill Wills - Drago
 * Yvonne De Carlo - Louise Warren
 * Jerry Van Dyke - Matt Douglas Jr.
 * Edgar Buchanan - Bunny Dull
 * Perry Lopez - Davey Elk
 * Strother Martin - Agard
 * Gordon Jones - Matt Douglas

 * Robert Lowery - Gov. Cuthbert H. Humphrey
 * Hank Worden - Curly Fletcher
 * Michael Pate - Puma, Chief of the Comanche Nation
 * Bruce Cabot - Ben Sage, Sr.
 * Edward Faulkner - Ben Sage, Jr.
 * Mari Blanchard - Camille
 * Leo Gordon - Jones
 * Chuck Roberson - Sheriff Jeff Lord
 * Bob Steele - Train Engineer
 * Aissa Wayne - Alice Warren
 * "Big" John Hamilton - Fauntleroy Sage
 * H.W. Gim - Ching

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User:Shlomif

Hi all!

My name is Shlomi Fish, and I'm an Israeli programmer, writer (of creative stories and aphorisms, articles, essays, lectures, blog entries or comments and web content), and also an amateur mathematician and an even more amateur artist. I'm also active in promoting and advocating various Open Source and Open Content technologies and resources in Israel and on the Internet.

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 * Hebraic proverbs
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Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born 3 January 1956) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Quotes
The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union. Nobody wants to have their name, you know, besmirched on the front of newspapers and people say wicked things about them and their family and call them all sorts of names, accuse them of being anti-Semitic and everything else. I mean that’s not part of my design. I don’t enjoy experiencing that. That’s just coming from some place that I have no control over.
 * [On the number of victims in the Holocaust] I mean when the war was over they said it was 12 million. Then it was six. Now it’s four. I mean it’s that kind of numbers game
 * Previously unpublished extracts from a Reader's Digest interview with Peggy Noonan (c. 2004) reproduced in "Mel Gibson: Holocaust a 'Numbers Game’" Fox News (August 2006 article)
 * Current page dates the article to May 19, 2015, but the Noonan article is said to be "two years ago" and was certainly published in 2004.

 * The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again. … What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?
 * 25 September 2006 article

 * If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.
 * On his involvement in Braveheart (1995) as actor, director and producer. Cited in [[w:The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus|The Dispatch]] (Moline, Illinois; December 24, 2006), p.63. The quote is in a infobox accompanying a Detroit Free Press syndicated article

 * I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

 * My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
 * Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.

 * I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film.
 * "Gibson: I'm not anti-Semitic", Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2004

 * I don't feel like I want to get in front of a camera any more. I like getting, you know, just being a slob behind a camera and watching other people look good. You know, I might not hurry back. I might go and go somewhere no-one can find me. You know where that is? You know where the place is no-one can find you? I was thinking of pitching my tent right next to the weapons of mass destruction. Then no-one would find me.
 * Primetime interview with Diane Sawyer, February 2004.

 * They take it up the ass. [pointing at his posterior] This is only for taking a shit.
 * Discussing homosexuals in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991.

 * I became an actor despite that. But with this look, who's going to think I'm gay? It would be hard to take me for someone like that. Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?
 * Discussing the perception that many actors are gay in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991.

 * Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?
 * An intoxicated Gibson to the infuriated driver he had just rear ended in Toronto. In 1984 he pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was fined $300 and banned from driving in Canada for 3 months. While in court, he apologized to the people of Toronto and thanked the police. Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously," page 175.

 * The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.
 * There is no salvation for those outside the Church [...] I believe it.
 * [On criticism of Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century Augustinian nun whose visions greatly influenced Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ] Why are they calling her a Nazi? ... Because modern secular Judaism wants to blame the Holocaust on the Catholic Church. And it's a lie. And it's revisionism. And they've been working on that one for a while.
 * Interview in "The Jesus War" The New Yorker (September 7, 2003).

 * This is not a Christian versus Jewish thing. '(Jesus) came into the world and it knew him not.' Looking at Christ's crucifixion, I look first at my own culpability in that.
 * Discussing The Passion of the Christ in an interview on Eternal Word Television Network, March 2004.

 * The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.

 * Fucking Jews... Jews are responsible for all wars in the world.
 * on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California (July 28, 2006) after pulled over for speeding and drunk driving. as quoted in Gibsons Anti Semitic Tirade Alleged Coverup, TMZ (July 28, 2006).

 * What are you looking at, sugartits?
 * addressing a female police officer after being pulled over for speeding and drunk driving in Malibu, California (July 28, 2006). Gibsons Anti Semitic Tirade Alleged Coverup, TMZ, (July 28, 2006).

 * After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have, and was stopped by the L.A. County sheriffs. The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person. I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am deeply ashamed of everything I said and I apologize to anyone who I have offended. Also, I take this opportunity to apologize to the deputies involved for my belligerent behavior. They have always been there for me in my community and indeed probably saved me from myself. I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse. I apologize for any behavior unbecoming of me in my inebriated state and have already taken necessary steps to ensure my return to health.
 * Apology issued July 29, 2006 for his behavior and comments during the incident with his drunk driving and speeding.

 * I fully support the efforts of Mr. & Mrs. Schindler to save their daughter, Terri Schiavo, from a cruel starvation. Terri's husband should sign the care of his wife over to her parents so she can be properly cared for.
 * Gibson lending his support to Terri Schiavo, telling Terri's father that he supported his family's efforts to save his daughter's life.

 * You're an embarrassment to me. You look like a fucking bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers, it will be your fault.
 * Taped phone conversation of Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his daughter.

 * Who wants to eat?! Who the fuck wants to eat?! Go have something to eat! Hurrrrraaaaayyyyyy!
 * Rant taped by Nick Eszterhas, son of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, in Costa Rica

 * I mean, with all this talk of building walls, and stuff like that, I think it's worth remembering that if you look at the servicemen and the military in this country, a lot of them have names like Ramirez and Hernandez and Rodriguez. And just from my reading, it's interesting that many of these men fight and die for their country – and women – and some of them don’t even get their citizenship until after they’re dead. So I think talk of walls and so forth is nonsensical. Hey, it's not the happiest political climate I've ever seen. There doesn't seem to be a very good option for me.
 * Interview with Jorge Ramos on 2016 U.S. Presidential election

About Gibson

 * This is extraordinary. We live in a culture where the terms fascist and racist are thrown about, if anything, too easily and too frequently. Yet here is a man whose every word and deed is easily explicable once you know the single essential thing about him: He is a member of a fascist splinter group that believes it is the salvation of the Catholic Church.
 * Christopher Hitchens, "Mel Gibson Isn't Just an Angry Narcissist: His tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology", Slate, (July 19, 2010)

 * Hard not to notice that anti-semitism seems to be on the rise: Britain to Serbia to Montreal to Florida...Two years ago Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ stirred the pot, coinciding as it did with the Bush presidency locked into a right-wing Christian agenda. More recently, Gibson spewed drunk but clear Jew-hating onto a Jewish cop.
 * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007)

 * Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son-of-a-bitch knows story structure!
 * South Park - Imaginationland, part I.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is a band that formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell, taking their name from the film They Might Be Giants. They have been playing in shows and releasing CDs ever since. TMBG started out as a band with only a drum machine, guitar, and keyboard. They became very popular with their "Dial-A-Song" service.

They Might Be Giants (1986)

 * No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.
 * "Don't Let's Start"

 * Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see.
 * "Absolutely Bill's Mood"

 * Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank.
 * "Rhythm Section Want Ad"

Lincoln (1988)

 * Where your eyes don't go / A filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms / And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do / When you turn around to look it's gone beyond you / On its face it's wearing your confused expression / Where your eyes don't go
 * "Where Your Eyes Don't Go"

 * I've built a little Empire / Off some crazy garbage / Called the blood of the exploited working class / But they've overcome their shyness / Now they're calling me 'Your Highness'/ And the world screams 'Kiss me, son of God'
 * "Kiss Me Son of God"

 * I don't want the world, I just want your half
 * "Ana Ng"

(1990)

 * A woman came up to me and said / I'd like to poison your mind / With wrong ideas that appeal to you / Though I am not unkind
 * "Whistling in the Dark"

 * There's only one thing that I know how to do well / and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well / and that's be you / be what you're like / be like yourself.
 * "Whistling in the Dark"

 * We can't be silent / 'Cause they might be giants / And what are we gonna do unless they are?
 * "They Might Be Giants"

 * Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads / on their real heads.
 * "We Want A Rock"

 * We were once so close to heaven / Peter came out and gave us medals / Declaring us the nicest of the damned
 * "Road Movie to Berlin"

 * You said you were the king of liars / And I believed you and called you 'sire' / But I realize now that I have been deceived.
 * "Road Movie to Berlin"

 * Can't shake the devil's hand / And say you're only kidding.
 * "Your Racist Friend"

 * Triangle Man, Triangle Man / Triangle Man hates Particle Man
 * "Particle Man"

 * Is he a dot, or he is a speck / when he's underwater, does he get wet / or does the water get him instead?
 * "Particle Man"

 * He's got a watch with a minute hand / millennium hand, and an eon hand
 * "Particle Man"

John Henry (1995)

 * Standing in my yard / Where they tore down the garage / To make room for the torn-down garage
 * "A Self Called Nowhere"

 * / applied by Magic Marker to drywall / I should be allowed to shoot my mouth off / I should have a call-in show.
 * "I Should Be Allowed to Think"

Mink Car (2001)

 * They revamped the airport completely / Now it looks just like a night club / Everyone's excited and confused
 * "Man, It's So Loud in Here"

 * Time is flying like an arrow / And the clock hands move so fast they make the wind blow / And it makes the pages of the calendar go / Flying out the window, one by one
 * "Hovering Sombrero"

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Talk:Ibn Khaldun

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About the use of "arabs" instead of "bedouins". If there is a point at the end of the article that states that most scholars think that Ibn Khaldun actually meant "Bedouins" when he used the word "Arabs", why keep using "arabs" instead of the right meaning "bedouins".

About the use of "arabs" instead of "bedouins".
About the use of "arabs" instead of "bedouins". If there is a point at the end of the article that states that most scholars think that Ibn Khaldun actually meant "Bedouins" when he used the word "Arabs", why keep using "arabs" instead of the right meaning "bedouins".

What did ibn khaldoun write about
Ibn Khaldūn has often been referred to as a Polymath, but even so there are few examples of his writings. One such is “al-Kitabu Libar” or his ‘History of the World.’ Other works of his are referred to within other works (by other people) and include such as:

“A commentary on the Islamic Theology of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.”

A work on Sufism “Sifa’u l-Sail”.

Another is a work on logic, “allaqa lil-Sultan”

The point to keep in mind that in his day and time he was an individual who studied and researched in many disciplines and it is logical to assume that he wrote on most of them, if not all

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 * In the early stages of the state, taxes are light in their incidence, but fetch in a large revenue...As time passes and kings succeed each other, they lose their tribal habits in favor of more civilized ones. Their needs and exigencies grow...owing to the luxury in which they have been brought up. Hence they impose fresh taxes on their subjects...[and] sharply raise the rate of old taxes to increase their yield...But the effects on business of this rise in taxation make themselves felt. For business men are soon discouraged by the comparison of their profits with the burden of their taxes...Consequently production falls off, and with it the yield of taxation.
 * This sociological theory includes the concept known in economics as the Khaldun-Laffer Curve (the relationship between tax rates and tax revenue follows an inverted U shape).

 * "Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings."
 * Muqaddimah

 * "Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."
 * Muqaddimah

 * The fourteenth-century Arabic historian Ibn Khaldūn, calls himself a townsman of Arab descent, uses the word commonly in this sense. This shows that he didn't necessarily talk about arabs in general when critisizing them, because this would effect him and his Yemenite people aswell.

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 * As Ibn Khaldun suggests, it is a remarkable fact that with few exceptions, most Muslim scholars…in the intellectual sciences have been non-Arabs:
 * ''"Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih and after him, al-Farisi and Az-Zajjaj. All of them were of Persian descent…they invented rules of (Arabic) grammar…great jurists were Persians… only the Persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works. Thus the truth of the statement of the prophet becomes apparent, 'If learning were suspended in the highest parts of heaven the Persians would attain it"…The intellectual sciences were also the preserve of the Persians, left alone by the Arabs, who did not cultivate them…as was the case with all crafts…This situation continued in the cities as long as the Persians and Persian countries, Iraq, Khorasan and Transoxiana (modern Central Asia), retained their sedentary culture.

 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal (III, pp. 311-15, 271-4 [Arabic]; R.N. Frye (p.91). He translated the Arabic word "Ajam" into "Persians."

 * "Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings."
 * Muqaddimah
 * "Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."
 * Muqaddimah

 * Arabs dominate only of the plains, because they are, by their savage nature, people of pillage and corruption. They pillage everything that they can take without fighting or taking risks, then flee to their refuge in the wilderness, and do not stand and do battle unless in self-defense. So when they encounter any difficulty or obstacle, they leave it alone and look for easier prey. And tribes well-fortified against them on the slopes of the hills escape their corruption and destruction, because they prefer not to climb hills, nor expend effort, nor take risks. Whereas plains, when they can reach them due to lack of protection and weakness of the state, are spoils for them and morsels for them to eat, which they will keep despoiling and raiding and conquering with ease until their people are defeated, then imitate them with mutual conflict and political decline, until their civilization is destroyed. And Allah is capable of their creation, and He is the One, the Victorious, and there is no other lord than Him.
 * (original text)

 * The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage. Other persons who accept the status of slave do so as a means of attaining high rank, or power, or wealth, as is the case with the Mameluke Turks in the East and with those Franks and Galicians who enter the service of the state [in Spain].
 * Ibn Khaldun as quoted in Bernard Lewis, Race and Color in Islam, Harper and Row, 1970, quote on page 38. The brackets are displayed by Lewis.

 * From late 'Abbasid times onwards the word Arab reverts to its earlier meaning of Bedouin or nomad, becoming in effect a social rather than an ethnic term. In many of the Western chronicles of the Crusades it is used only for Bedouin, while the mass of the Muslim population of the Near East are called Saracens. It is certainly in this sense that in the sixteenth century Tasso speaks of 'Altri Arabi poi, che di soggiorno, / certo non sono stabili abitanti;'
 * Gerusalemme Liberata, XVII 21.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Neurotically Yours

 * 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. — Jeff Q (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Neurotically Yours
No quotes. —LrdChaos 13:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 2 August 2006, 14:00 (UTC)
 * Vote extended 1 week, to 9 August 2006, 14:00 (UTC), to give time for recent request. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: delete (4 deletes; 1 keep; 2 undecided, both leaning toward delete; no sources provided to confirm validity of quotes). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless valid quotes are added. —LrdChaos 13:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Undecided. Quotes have been added, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt as to their validity, but I am concerned about the notability issue that Jeffq raised. The Wikipedia page had been nominated for deletion in May, but the vote was closed early as a "bad-faith nomination"; the issue of notability was not addressed. There are a fair number of Google hits (118,000), which puts it at about 1/4 of that for The Order of the Stick and about 1/2 of Little Gamers (two other webcomics with pages here, though they aren't Flash-based), but there's no definitive line as to how many results 'are enough.' The status of the Wikipedia page, as well as the quotes that exist on the page here, don't exactly instill confidence that it is notable; in particular, the edit history for the WP page seems to indicate that there are a number of various anons and the same few registered members who primarily edit the page. While this is not particularly unusual (people often assume some level of "ownership" of articles, no matter what the policy is), the page still looks and reads like more of a fan page than an encyclopedia entry. All in all, through the convoluted processes of my mind, my feeling is that this isn't really notable enough to merit inclusion here or on Wikipedia, but I'm not really sure. —LrdChaos 18:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 14:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete . Concur with LrdChaos amd UDScott. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Undecided for now. The quotes Skotavus has added strike me as rather inane (except for the somewhat amusing "Jesus was cool" quote), which isn't by itself a compelling reason to axe an article. But since I've never heard of this work before, since it falls into a grey area of notability, and since it hasn't yet been reviewed on Wikipedia (see my comment under Koweja's vote), I'm not willing to support it yet, either. (I'm not up to a WP AfD at the moment.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Even if acceptable quotes are found, is NY considered notable enough to be here? - Koweja 17:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good question. We have rejected some online webcomics (essentially what this is) before on the basis of insufficient notability. Neurotically Yours has a modest (but non-trivial) multiuser edit history, but seems to be weak on sources at the moment. It might be a good idea to nominate it for deletion to force a review of its notability there, especially as it would be decided within 5 days of nomination, possibly giving us time to benefit from the results. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Do not delete! At least let me have some time to put quotes up, people! ;Skotavus
 * Considerable experience at Wikiquote has shown that quote articles created without quotes often (usually?) remain that way for long periods of time, apparently abandoned by their creators. (There may be several reasons for this, but the end result is the same.) Frequently, this problem is resolved by calling attention to it here with a nomination for deletion, which also serves as a "use it or lose it" announcement. It's a bit brusque, but it can get results more readily than simple waiting. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment: With 1 day left to go on this nomination, we have a problem. Quotes have been added to the article, but no source is provided, and my quick scan of the Neurotically Yours website shows no obvious way to get these quotes except for wading through all the original material. Therefore, it's hard to say whether these are valid quotes, making LrdChaos and UDScott's position unclear. That leaves what could be considered a lack of consensus, even though only 1 user is definitively supporting the article at the moment. I would ask two things: that Skotavus add to the article specific source information for the quotes (e.g., named "episodes", flash clips, etc., complete with specific URLs for each to allow readers to verify them); and (B) that LrdChaos and UDScott consider whether they believe the quotes are "valid", with or without further evidence. (UDScott is otherwise occupied at the moment, so this may be problematic.) Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I have a life. —Skotavus 2:08, 6 August 2006 (AEST) If you absolutely feel the need to remove my page, regardless of the fact that it appears I am the only one that edits it and don't spend all my time on the Web looking for things that are wrong on a site that spends plenty of server space on other such inane articles as big-bust actresses, then by all means go ahead.
 * On the assumption that the mis-signature above was an honest mistake (and not a vandal trying to put words in Skotavus's mouth, as occasionally happens) . . . Skotavus, I'm sorry you seem be taking this personally. It isn't. Wikis are an aggregation of material added, deleted, and edited, by a huge population. Each person decides how much and what kind of the many kinds of work they can and will do. Within that population, there are some who choose to spend their time examining existing material for its adherence to the policies of the project. When someone nominates an article for potentially reaching beyond those policies, these folks will do the work they've volunteered for. There will always be articles that don't meet the guidelines, and it may take a while for folks to get around to addressing any particular subject, big bust or no. ☺ We can only address them as a community when they are brought to our attention. In the case of Neurotically Yours, as I've said above, this is not an obvious decision (else I'd have closed it on the 2nd), and further work toward sourcing and/or adding material may — or may not — change the minds of participants. (It's very common for people to change their votes when suggestions are followed, but it's very uncommon for editors to follow them, which is one reason why many nominated articles are deleted.) Regardless of what happens here, I hope that you will consider the larger picture of the project and not get too attached to any one article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Chuck Izzo

 * 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. — Jeff Q (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Chuck Izzo
Notability not demonstrated. - InvisibleSun 20:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (3 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent; no response from article creator). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless evidence of notability is provided (which I don't expect it will, or can, be). —LrdChaos 13:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concurr with LrdChaos; this is likely a vanity page. I've posted a vanity-warn to the registered user's talk page to suggest moving the quotes to his user page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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DeBarra Mayo

DeBarra Mayo (born 1953, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American health and fitness advocate, writer and media personality. She has epilepsy, which has led her to a career involved with maintaining and enhancing health. She has written regularly on the subject of health and wellness in books, magazines and newspapers, as well as on radio and television broadcasts. Mayo has been an award-winning women's bodybuilder and trainer for the West Virginia University football team.

Quotes

 * Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.
 * Runner's World Yoga Book II, Anderson World Books, Inc., 1983 ISBN 0-89037-274-8

 * To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.
 * Erie Times, SportsWeek, March 3, 1986

 * ...when the test results came back, everything went silent. I don't know if it was from pure astonishment or the overwhelming gratitude of finally having an answer, but a lifetime of words all disappeared except for one. Epilepsy.
 * Living with Epilepsy, Stayhealthy.com, Nov. 9, 1999

 * The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
 * Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy, December 22, 2006

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Pootie Tang

Pootie Tang is a 2001 cult comedy film, directed by Louis C.K. The film was adapted from a comedy sketch which first appeared on The Chris Rock Show. The character Pootie Tang is a satire of the stereotyped characters who appeared in old blaxploitation films.

Pootie Tang

 * "Pootie Tang-A" appears as a white man dressed in black face posing as Pootie Tang
 * As a child, Pootie Tang has his mother die and his father raise him just briefly. His father gives him a "magic" belt - the very same belt he's disciplined with - on his deathbed.

 * "Camietowns a biddie; wapatah to the bammies on the Pannie Stai! Cigarettes/Fast food = Netatai Baddy!" - an example of Pootie Tang's idiosyncratic speech offered early in the film. A PSA ad aimed at children is so effective, it launches the plot. Corporate America - embodied in Dave Atell, and "Lecter Corp." - attempts to seize Pootie's voice (20,000,000 USD is offered) which Pootie refuses on moral grounds ("That's a canapan to the semachai") with a "nay-no" [see below]]. Pootie refuses to "wah-da-tah to the shama cow", interpreted generally as Pootie will not succumb to any corporation's will [needs citation]. Irene "Hoochie Ma Chicken Head" is unleashed by Lecter Corp. to seek Pootie and steal his "magic" belt. In the tradition the solitary hero - Odysseus, Cuchulainn, and so on - Pootie has friends, not be relied on for sustenance, but friends nevertheless. Wanda Sykes plays one such friend - the classic "hooker with the heart of gold" who isn't actually a hooker - who hosts parties not even "air can get into" without an invitation.

Although Pootie Tang speaks in a completely unintelligible jive, everyone he meets seems to understand him. Here are some examples of his vocabulary:

Others

 * Trucky: It was incredible! Only the third time a man had been mauled by a gorilla at that steel mill!

 * Biggie Shorty: Just 'cause a girl like to dress fancy and stand on the street corner near some whores, you automatically think she's hookin'?

 * Trucky: You can't hurt a ho with a belt... they like that shit.

 * Trucky: He was rejuvenated. You hear that? Rejuvenated. He was juvenated before, lost it... and got juvenated again. Rejuvenated!

 * Dirty Dee: Yeah! Hahahaha! Sepatown my ass!

 * Trucky: Dirty Dee is still dirty because he's Dirty Dee, dammit!

Dialogue

 * J.B.: Pootie Tang will draw you a picture of how he's gonna kick your ass, then mail it to you ten days in advance. The picture gets there, right? You go, "What the hell is this?" Then Pootie Tang knocks on your door, promptly kicks your ass, and you still won't know what happened to you!
 * Trucky: Got that right. He is a kick-ass artiste, know what I'm sayin'?. He like the da Vinci of ass-kickin'. What's that gonna be, right? Pootie Tang — the da Vinci of Ass-Kickin'!
 * J.B.: Aw man, Pootie Tang whoop your ass so bad that you could write it off on your taxes, that's right. You got right here: ass-whoopin' number one, ass-whoopin' number two, this right here, you can't write that off. That's just gettin' beat up.
 * Lacey: You know, I'd like to also add that Pootie Tang can kick some ass too, boy.

 * J.B.: Yo Man, a Biggie Shorty party is exclusive, man. They don't let nobody in a Biggie Shorty party. They got a line around the block, aint nobody in man. You know What, Nobody we know can get in this party Man. They don't let no Light in, They don't let no Electricity in, They don't let no Water in, They don't let no Air in! Air's right now going "Hey Man I'm Air, I'm on the list, let me in." and they won't let Air in, and you know Air gets in everywhere. That's How exclusive A Biggie Shorty Party is.
 * Lacey: And you know what else, it's hard to get in too. [pause]
 * J.B.: I HATE YOU!

 * "Pootie Tang-A" appears as a white man dressed in black face posing as Pootie Tang, selling Lecter Corp. products. Dozens of fake Pooties suddenly show up.

 * Dirty Dee: Pootie Tang! I come to call you out, maggoty eatin' bitch!
 * Pootie Tang: You ain't come one, but many tine tanies!

 * Pootie Tang: Cole me on the panny sty.
 * Bob Costas: ...I'm sorry. What was that?
 * Pootie Tang: Cole — Cole me on the panny sty.
 * Bob Costas: What the hell are you talking about?
 * Pootie Tang: ...Cole me down on the panny sty?
 * Bob Costas: Ohhhh, cole me down on the panny sty! All right!

Taglines

 * Too cool for words

Cast

 * Lance Crouther - Pootie Tang
 * J.B. Smoove - Trucky
 * Jennifer Coolidge - Ireenie
 * Robert Vaughn - Dick Lecter
 * Wanda Sykes - Biggie Shorty
 * Chris Rock - JB/Radio DJ/Pootie's Father

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Talk:Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin
What is the citation for the "Our race is the master race" quote. I find it odd that it is capitalized with no references to source. Is this a vandalism? All other references are circular, unreferenced copies. A nomaly 03:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I just checked in and quickly reverted that edit as a farily obvious absurdity. I then did a Google search and did find a few sites quoting this as "Jewish" perspective or a quote of Begin, but none with a cited source or date, and this leaves me still very much inclined to believe it to be totally bogus concoction, with so little presence and less credibilty that it is probably not even worth adding as a "disputed" or misattributed quote. ~ Kalki 04:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I have removed this bogon again. For further background info, see "Correcting A Misquotation Reputedly By Menachem Begin", Begin Center Diary, 27 May 2009. ~ Ningauble 15:52, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * HINT: Jimmy Carter, diary
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/07/books/keeping-the-faith.html -- "The Israeli Prime Minister is pictured as explosive, mercurial, pedantic and unreliable, a man who would commit himself to one position in private and promptly contradict it in public. ... Although Mr. Carter has harsh words for Mr. Begin, who alternately charmed and infuriated him, his account is apparently not as tough on the Israeli leader as it was originally meant to be. According to former White House officials, Mr. Carter softened his comments on Mr. Begin after Stuart E. Eizenstat, the lawyer who had been his assistant for domestic affairs, read an early draft of these memoirs and said the language was too tough."
 * What is the position of the rabbis about the jewish people in judaism? Are they superior to other people? (Just asking to have a jewish view on it)
 * what's the difference don't you believe your country is superior to any other country? AmYisroelChai (talk) 19:36, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Generally, no, that is the belief of nationalist supremacists, such as Nazis. Further, the question was not "what is the position of the Israeli government about non-Israelis"; the question was "What is the position of rabbis about jewish people in judaism?" The Talmud tells us clearly that the rabbis view the goyim (non-jews) as less than human, as animals to be servants to the jews eternally.
 * I've looked into the Carter memoirs (not diary) and added a quote about Menachem Begin from them. That Carter believed "Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land" seems supported by the parenthesized "Begin always referred to the West Bank by the two biblical names - I presume to engender the notion that this was the promised land which God Himself had given to the Jews" but I've no idea where Texe Marrs could've gotten that other stuff about "Master Race" or the quote. Master only appears 3 times in "Keeping Faith"

 * 109 "a master at circumlocution"
 * 405 "master at making insignificant editorial changes"
 * 516 "master of this technique"
 * If it was based on something other than the memoirs (or did he have another set?) it's suspicious that Texe Marrs would not cite supporting documents for the 'Master Race' allegation. ScratchMarshall (talk) 04:46, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Admission 1967 Invasion of Egypt Was "Decision" Not Defense Against Invasion by Egypt
I did a search in the New York times site and didn't find this quote "The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him"--79.179.155.216 14:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

 * The editor above who removed this quote in 2008 was likely acting in good faith, because it is bizarrely difficult to make the article pop up in a Google search. This page is at the top of Google results for the quote; the NYT article is buried several pages down, far lower in the results than one would reasonably expect the primary source to appear. I eventually found it by limiting the search to August 1982.  The quote is accurate, and the NYT article is real, published on August 21, 1982.  See http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/21/world/excerpts-from-begin-speech-at-national-defense-college.html

 * I'll put the quote back. This is a hopeless task, of course, but so be it. If the NYT original is taken down, I can upload it again.

Strange
I find it really strange that the page on Begin seems to be deleted? Has Begin really said _nothing_ worth noting???? I dont find that believeable. He lived through some of the most "uinteresting" times in human history. I have to ask people here not to delete the entire page if I decide to contribute by creating some lines of biografical data.

"Master race" quote
While the alleged "Master race" quote is improbable, it is surprising that it is not cited here, even as an allegedly "fabricated quote." The evidence that it is fabricated must be presented.

 * "Our race is the Master Race. we are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects.... Other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves"

This is from the Begin Center: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009

Correcting A Misquotation Reputedly By Menachem Begin This past week, the Begin Center received this request for information:

Can you please help me with this?

This quote

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."

is attributed to Begin and it is all over the web.

Do you know where it came from?

This was our reply:

Dear S_____,

I gave your request to our director of information and content and after some thorough research, I have the following for you:

First of all, Mr. Begin never said those words and there is no factual basis for that quote. When we searched for the quote, we found that it looped back to the same text by Texe Marrs, who does not say that he is quoting Begin.

Further research at this site showed that the quote was attributed to "Amnon Kapeliouk's article "Begin and the Beasts" (New Statesman, June 25, 1982) which was infamous for having misrepresented some remarks Menachem Begin said in a speech to the Knesset, and there are legitimate sources all over the net that make reference to that incident.

However, the misrepresented quote is not the one cited ("Our race is the Master Race", etc.), but another one entirely (see below). Clearly, someone invented the "Master Race" quote and then tacked on Amnon Kapeliouk as the source, to give it credibility. However, even the REAL (and far less offensive) quote has now been proven to have been misrepresented by Kapeliouk.

The REAL story involving Kapeliouk's article is provided by a media-watch group called CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), which regularly debunks bogus news reports and misquotes.

Here:

...Internet hate sites, as well as Fisk, attribute the derogation of Palestinians as “two-legged beasts” to former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The source generally given is:

Menachem Begin, as quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts, "New Statesman, June 25, 1982

Indeed, the radical French-Israeli journalist, Amnon Kapeliouk, did attribute such a quote to Begin in his New Statesman article criticizing Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The author posited:

For this reason the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to dehumanize the Palestinians. Begin described them in a speech in the Knesset as "beasts walking on two legs

However, further investigation by CAMERA reveals that the actual speech upon which Kapeliouk based his quote, as well as news reports at the time demonstrate that the journalist distorted the quote, giving it a completely different tone and meaning. Begin was referring not to "the Palestinians" in a general sense but very specifically, he was referring to terrorists who target children within Israel...Kapeliouk neither recanted nor apologized for his deception...

I hope that helps.

Moreover, we will be conferring with others in Israel and abroad to attempt to verify that the no one has ever heard or seen this quote and whether it is authentic. At present, we understand that there is no reliable source and until proven otherwise, which we doubt can be done based on our archival mateiral and personal familiarity with Mr. Begin, we reject the veracity of the words supposedly either spoken or conveyed. The quotation is bogus.

 * Is this is a joke? CAMERA is a propaganda source, and literally nothing else.
 * I've restored the above comment which was removed in special:diff/2086051 please do not do that again. ScratchMarshall (talk) 04:39, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * This appears on note 6 of page 208 of the 2005 book Oil Crisis under the chapter "Future Production - Crisis and Beyond", would be interested in seeing how far back we can trace it. It doesn't actually mention who it is being attributed to though, you need to go back to page 183's 2nd paragraph which includes: "a Zionist activist of Polish origins, by the name of Menachem Begin, had established a terrorist group in Palestine in 1942 aiming to oust the British" and there is a small 6 after the comma after Begin. ScratchMarshall (talk) 22:55, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Begin and the Beasts in New Statesman
Is anyone able to get a full copy of this 25 June 1982 article by Amnon Kapeliouk? It is discussed in https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=8359.5%3Bwap2 as the possible earliest source of the quote.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/zaq9j/menachem_begin_and_the_our_race_is_the_master/ claimed the article was on a single page and they took this photograph of the microfilm but I find it difficult to read and am hoping to acquire something more legible. ScratchMarshall (talk) 09:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

backtracing the "divine gods" quote

 * 17 December 2003 archive https://web.archive.org/web/20031217191553/http://texemarrs.com/112003/jewish_master_race.htm
 * 5 December 2003 archive https://web.archive.org/web/20031205052353/http://www.rense.com/general45/master.htm

Although rense.com was archived before texemarrs, you can see from the URL that texemarrs appears to have published this "112003", which appears supported by rense's attribution "By Texe Marrs 11-25-3". I think we can reasonably assume that Texe Marrs first uploaded this on 25 November 2003, and that archive.org grabbed it from there and rense in the following month.

What I'm trying to figure out is two things:
 * if we can trace this quote back further than November 25th
 * if we can figure out who first clearly attributed this to Menachem Begin, as TexeMarrs.Com merely insinuated it whereas we can see by 2005 in 183 and 208 of Oil Crisis that Colin John Campbell as making this association. Did CJC make it first, or did someone else make that association prior to him and he possibly just ran with it without checking up on it first?

There are 8 sentences...
 * 1) Our race is the Master Race.
 * 2) We are divine gods on this planet.
 * 3) We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects.
 * 4) In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best.
 * 5) Other races are considered as human excrement.
 * 6) Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races.
 * 7) Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron.
 * 8) The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.

Until I can find earlier evidence of them, evidence so far supports that Texe Marrs was the 1st to say them and not anybody else. ScratchMarshall (talk) 04:55, 16 February 2018 (UTC) ScratchMarshall (talk) 04:55, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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