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L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.

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 * People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single-issue thinker, and a single-issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician — or political philosophy — is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center. Make no mistake: all politicians — even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership — hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician — or political philosophy — can be put. If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
 * "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?" (3 August 1999).

 * [I]f a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him? If he's a man — and you're not — what does his lack of trust tell you about his real attitude toward women? If "he" happens to be a woman, what makes her so perverse that she's eager to render her fellow women helpless on the mean and seedy streets her policies helped create? Should you believe her when she says she wants to help you by imposing some infantile group health care program on you at the point of the kind of gun she doesn't want you to have? On the other hand — or the other party — should you believe anything politicians say who claim they stand for freedom, but drag their feet and make excuses about repealing limits on your right to own and carry weapons? What does this tell you about their real motives for ignoring voters and ramming through one infantile group trade agreement after another with other countries? Makes voting simpler, doesn't it? You don't have to study every issue — health care, international trade — all you have to do is use this X-ray machine, this Vulcan mind-meld, to get beyond their empty words and find out how politicians really feel. About you. And that, of course, is why they hate it.
 * "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?" (3 August 1999).

 * A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
 * Zero Aggression Principle ("ZAP"), from "Who is a Libertarian?"

 * What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
 * Statement of purpose, L. Neil Smith's "The Webley Page"

 * Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.
 * The Venus Belt, 1980.

 * Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon — rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.
 * "The Atlanta Declaration," presented at WeaponsCon I, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1987.

 * My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
 * "Merchants of Fear" Presented to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, 20 February 1994.

 * As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
 * "Merchants of Fear".

 * Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
 * "Merchants of Fear".

 * Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
 * "Merchants of Fear".

 * The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections" 15 January 1998.

 * Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity — and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you — but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.
 * "Some New Tactical Reflections".

 * I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
 * "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn) Presented to the second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, 2 July 1998.

 * The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a kleptocracy, meaning 'rule by thieves'. Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won't willingly fork over to end poverty, then maybe they'll cough up to fight drugs or terrorism. Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a cover for what's really going on, like the colors of competing gangs.
 * "Why Aren't We There Yet?"

 * (1) Every year, in this nation of more than a quarter billion individuals, a few thousand (three quarters of them suicides) are killed with firearms, while millions of Americans successfully use personal weapons to save themselves and others from injury or death. Guns save many, many times more lives than they take. (2) In every jurisdiction that has made it even microscopically easier for individuals to carry weapons, violent crime rates have plummeted by double-digit percentages. Vermont, where no permission of any kind is required to carry a gun, is named in many respectable surveys as the safest state to live in. (3) More telling and urgent, every episode of genocidal mass murder in history has been preceded by a period of intense disarming of the civil population, usually with 'public safety' or 'national security' as an excuse. According to Amnesty International — hardly a gang of right wing crazies — in the 20th century alone (in events entirely separate from war), governments have slaughtered more than a hundred million people, usually their own citizens.
 * "Murder by Gun Control" 31 March 2000.

 * What kind of mind would sacrifice millions for the sake of a few thousands, especially when it's been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that victim disarmament can't save even those thousands? What kind of mind wants a return to mean streets and ever-soaring crime rates? What kind of mind collaborates with agents of mass murder and genocide? Make no mistake: you victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, in the words of T.D. Melrose, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
 * "Murder by Gun Control".

 * You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing — in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic — that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
 * "Murder by Gun Control".

 * Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns — not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed — very foolishly, as it turned out — in their hands.
 * "Murder by Gun Control".

 * Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
 * "Am I the NRA?" collected in Lever Action (2001) and republished online in 2007.

 * Gun ownership is a problem, not because it represents any physical danger to [the IRS]. Americans have proven dismayingly forbearing in that regard. But people who own guns often look at the world differently than those who don't. That's the real danger to social and political parasites. Roughly 25% of Americans own guns. The number increases each time there's widespread discussion of more gun control - call it what it is: 'victim disarmament'. If the figure ever rises to 50%, I suspect the widespread discussion will be about repealing the 16th Amendment.
 * "Vermont Fudge," originally published in The Sierra Times 18 March 2002.

 * It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
 * "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?" Presented to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, Phoenix, Arizona, 12 & 13 October 2002.

 * Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
 * "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?"

 * We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
 * "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?"

 * It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
 * "Empire of Lies" Presented to the Libertarian Party of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 15 June 2003.

 * Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.
 * "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)," 2 October 2005.

 * To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat — of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them — or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
 * "Of Pharaohs and Firearms".

 * I grew up in the Bible Belt — not the buckle end, as the cliche goes, but the other end where all the holes are. You know what kind of holes. I don't mean to underestimate them, but if you laugh at these idiots enough — show them up as the phonies most of them are — they'll go away. I'm concerned about another kind of religious fundamentalism: environmentalism. The Greenies have no more respect for scientific truth and individual liberty than the Goddies do. Both operate on faith, rather than fact. And neither of them has any qualms about dusting off the rack, the pincers, the Iron Maiden, and the red hot branding irons in order to see their mythology ensconced as beyond question.
 * Interview, Ari Armstrong, "Catching Up with L. Neil Smith," 7 December 2006.

 * We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party — the Boot On Your Neck party — pretending to be two.
 * Interview, Ari Armstrong, "Catching Up with L. Neil Smith".

 * The Bill of Rights must be subjected to no 'interpretation' of any kind except in terms of the original intent of the Founding Fathers, a group of individuals who had just barely defeated the most overbearing, ruthless, and dangerously violent government in the history of the world. Even the British people were having trouble with it at the time. The Bill of Rights represents an historic bargain between those who advocated a strong central government — and whose political ideas and wishes are expressed in the main body of the Constitution — and those who did not. Without the Bill of Rights, the Constitution ceases to be valid; any legitimate authority that derives from it ceases to exist.
 * "Toward an International Bill of Rights Union," 31 August 2007.

 * As we all know, socialism failed. At the height of its popularity it caused widespread starvation and deprivation, wrecking whole economies wherever it was applied. It inspired childish, petulant dictators — ideologues who were eager to do anything except give up an idea that didn’t work — to put millions against the wall and send millions more to places like Siberia because the people couldn’t (the dictators said 'wouldn’t') gladly transmogrify themselves into New Collectivist Mankind, or whatever the slogan was at the time. In the end, it finally destroyed the most enormous empire history had ever known.
 * "New Maps of Bulgaria," 26 October 2007.

 * We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
 * "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Des Moines," 29 June 2008.

 * ...[T]ry not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.
 * "Only Nixon," 9 November 2008.

 * Barack Obama is the pampered pet of Chicago gangsters. He is good buddies with a murderous African dictator. And his wacko leftist academic background evokes memories of the style of sideways thinking that inspired the death marches in Cambodia. The man burns to have a private army all his own. During the election campaign, he threatened to create a 'domestic security force' as large and well-funded as the entire U.S. military, just the thing to send door-to-door (as the police attempted in the Chicago projects) searching for privately-owned weapons. Sure enough, the very first item to appear on his website www.change.org following the election was a proposal to require 'mandatory community service' — 50 hours a year from junior high school and high school students, 100 hours from those in college — or the individuals in question needn't expect to graduate.
 * "Only Nixon".

 * Over the years, I've made a lot of predictions that have come true. Remember this one: two years from now, even those who supported Barack Obama most enthusiastically will be feeling a certain nostalgia about George W. Bush and secretly wishing they'd voted for John McCain. Yeah, I know, disgusting. But that's the way the world works. Nobody alive today would willingly admit to voting for Adolf Hitler, although the third or fourth worst mass-murderer in history (behind Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin, and, on a per capita basis, Pol Pot) won by a landslide. Once the outrages to come have ended and there are thousands — perhaps even millions — of Obama's crimes to account for, would you want to admit to having voted to make those crimes possible?
 * "Only Nixon".

 * Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.
 * "Alice Shrugged," 18 December 2008.

 * Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them — provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others — whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.
 * (with Rylla Cathryn Smith) What Libertarians Believe, "Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle," 4 January 2009.

 * A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
 * (with Rylla Cathryn Smith) What Libertarians Believe, "Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle".

 * Conventional politicians almost never think their philosophy through and set it down for everyone to examine. In most cases, they don't dare. Republicans would soon discover that they're actually socialists. Democrats would discover that they're actually fascists.
 * (with Rylla Cathryn Smith) What Libertarians Believe, "Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle".

 * Ask yourself this question: if you were one of America's Founders, and you'd just surprised the world (and yourself) by winning a war of secession against the most powerful and heavy-handed government on the planet, and the last thing in the world you wanted for yourself, for your children, or for your grandchildren was to fall beneath the heels of its jackboots again, what would you want the Bill of Rights to mean? And if the first act, under martial law, of that powerful, heavy-handed government had been to try to take your guns away at Lexington and Concord, would you have written a Second Amendment to guarantee its 'right' to own and carry weapons? Would you have written a Second Amendment that was subject to whatever government claims is 'reasonable regulation'? Or would you have written the Second Amendment to forbid government from having anything to do with your guns? Anything whatever.
 * "Police Reform," 11 January 2009.

 * Politicians must be taught, in no uncertain terms, that the only real way to economically 'stimulate' the Productive Class is to stop stealing their fucking money! If the government announced a total tax amnesty, as well as a complete, permanent end to individual and corporate taxes — repealing all unconstitutional economic regulations would help, too — this depression would be over by the end of the week.
 * "Collectivism's Last Stand," 18 January 2009.

 * Government is doing the exact opposite of what really needs to be done. George Bush and Barack Obama have pumped trillions more in counterfeit currency and credit into an economy already deathly ill from such treatment. If it goes on, we stand to suffer hyperinflation (all inflation consists of, no matter what they told you in Economics 101, is government generation of phony money) followed by another, very possibly terminal depression. Before it's over, the country — if not the whole world — will be locked down under brutal military rule, and our species likely will never again know freedom, progress, or prosperity.
 * "The Unnecessary Depression," 1 February 2009.

 * Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.
 * "The Unnecessary Depression".

 * All real libertarians are dedicated to the eventual elimination of all taxes. That's one way you can tell them from the fakes. If anyone asks what government will run on, tell them it's not our problem. If they can create a 'government' that doesn't initiate force and steal from us, that doesn't break things and kill people in the enforcement of the will of parasites, that doesn't subsist by beating individuals up and killing them, they're welcome to try. Just leave us out of it altogether.
 * "The Unnecessary Depression".

 * I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.
 * "It Has to Cost Them Something," 8 February 2009.

 * One of the nastiest aspects of the 'no-fly list' — and believe it or not, its authors are proud of this part — is that you can't find out whether you're on it until you've paid for your ticket and are standing in line to get your boarding pass. Denied the service that you paid for, to my knowledge there is no way to get your money back. Nor is there any way to find out why you're on the list, or how you can get off. It is known that civil rights advocates of various kinds have been placed on the list, apparently because they're civil rights advocates.
 * "It Has to Cost Them Something".

 * Just about everybody in politics has something to hide. The higher they rise in the system, the more skeletons they have stuffed in their closets. And as we have all come to appreciate, this goes double — or perhaps even squared — for politicos who got their start in Chicago. And because the system no longer cares about our rights (to the extent it ever did) we can no longer focus solely on issues related to them, but must cast about more widely to ensnare and defeat the enemies of liberty.
 * "It Has to Cost Them Something".

 * I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us — by which I mean members of the general freedom movement — will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.
 * "Pushing Rope," 15 February 2009.

 * I do know enough about economics — and so do you — to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.
 * "A Little Austrian Flea," 1 March 2009.

 * Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace — oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.
 * "A Little Austrian Flea".

 * The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual — and his rights — as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.
 * "Cambodian Road Trip," 15 March 2009.

 * It seems that Wikipedia.com, that splendid source for all kinds of information, is no longer dedicated to the truth, assuming it ever was. Individuals who have tried to edit the pages about Barack Obama — to reflect the incontrovertible fact that he is not God, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, or Ronald Reagan — report that their contributions have vanished within minutes of posting them, and that they, themselves, have been suspended for three days following each 'infraction'. When some sort of official at Wikipedia was contacted about this, she stonewalled, claiming that this censorship was the work of 'volunteers', implying they were somehow beyond control of Wikipedia itself. Like the Red Guard and the Khmer Rouge were 'volunteers'.
 * "Announcifications From Your Publicatorialist: Wikipedia, Missouri, and Ceres," 15 March 2009.

 * Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.
 * "The Bad Guys," 28 April 2009.

 * Nobody would claim that America has never made mistakes, never failed to live up to its own rhetoric. Nothing in the universe is perfect. There isn’t a nation anywhere on the planet whose record for slavery and slaughter isn’t worse. What the British did to the Irish and the Scots would have had their leaders doing the hemp dance right along with the Nazis at Nuremberg. And even the Swiss thought it was acceptable to inflict unspeakable cruelties on Gypsies and their children. The difference, for better or worse, is that America never seems to stop examining and reexamining its historical failures, while other countries do their damnedest to sweep theirs under the rug and forget them.
 * "Wanna Buy a Future?" 2 June 2009.

 * "Global Warming" represents the last gasp of so-called "scientific progressivism", a mass of pitifully transparent falsehoods being employed to justify reducing mankind under the absolute despotism of "experts", the obvious implication being that we can’t even breathe responsibly. Environmentalism, Gaianism, is a religion on the basis of which — illegally under the First Amendment — public policy is being generated. Exhaling carbon dioxide is Original Sin, a reliable source of unlimited power and wealth to a Parasitic Class of politicians, bureaucrats, and cops with which our civilization now finds itself infested.
 * "Wanna Buy a Future?"

 * There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
 * Ceres, Chapter Fourteen, 2009.

 * Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective — economic value, anyway — while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.
 * Ceres, Chapter Eighteen, 2009.

 * The embarrassing truth — the brontosaurus in the broom closet that nobody wants to talk about — is that the Republican Party was never the party of freedom. That Goldwater business in the 1960s was a fluke, immediately snuffed out by "older, wiser heads" in the GOP like those of Nelson Rockefeller, Weeping Willy Scranton, Henry Cabot Lodge, and George Romney. The Republican Party was created in the 1850s by northeastern mercantilists just like them, to crush the hopes of poor southerners for individual liberty and independence, and keep them bound in serfdom, paying 80 percent of all taxes collected in America.
 * "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet" 18 October 2009.

 * The War on Drugs is over. Drugs won. It's time to stop wasting money, destroying lives, grinding up the Bill of Rights, and giving greater and greater power to the jackbooted thugs, in an unnecessary and futile attempt to enforce one group's ideas about what chemicals and vegetables some other group ought to manufacture, cultivate, distribute, purchase, possess, and consume. Repeal the drug laws, and prices will drop a thousandfold, driving most participants out of the business.
 * "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet".

 * Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot — and dispose of — if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.
 * "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet".

 * We must agree right now that the Bill of Rights takes precedence over everything else and may not be suppressed by a pall of political correctness on campuses, in the media, in corporate life, or anywhere else. There is no right not to be offended by the free expression of others. Those of us who can afford it should sue those who try to deprive us of our freedom of speech. Mine is worth at least ten figures.
 * "Revenge of the Cookie Monster" 31 January 2010.

 * Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism — Progressivism — all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.
 * "Revenge of the Cookie Monster".

 * If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.
 * "Revenge of the Cookie Monster".

 * Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
 * "Revenge of the Cookie Monster".

 * As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.
 * "The Pot and the Kettle" 21 March 2010.

 * The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives reports that there are 250,000,000 privately-owned guns of all kinds in America. The firearms industry says that there are three times that number — three quarters of a billion guns — 'of modern design in good working order'. Americans are better heeled than most foreign armies. And that's exactly the way it should be.
 * "Tastes Like Chicken" 28 March 2010.

 * I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.
 * "Tastes Like Chicken".

 * For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 — the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) — is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports — mostly from China — were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.
 * "Tastes Like Chicken".

 * Our early ancestors in Africa were arboreal troop-monkeys, living on a diet of fruit (to quote Yogi Bear, 'Nuts and berries! Nuts and berries! Yech!') and insects. When you wander around the house, not particularly hungry, but looking for something to munch on idly, what you are most likely seeking unconsciously are bugs. Most of our most popular snack foods (Fiddle-Faddle comes to mind, and small pretzels) resemble and have the same 'mouth feel' as bugs. You can take the monkey out of the trees, but you can't take the tree monkey out of humanity.
 * "Back to the Trees!" 11 April 2010.

 * I suspect that our ancestors adapted to bipedalism for the view above the level of the grass, as much as for anything else. Later, they discovered that they could carry things if they remained upright. Change of posture brought other changes. Notice, for example, that human beings court face-to-face. Then they marry and see each other mostly in profile for the rest of their lives. But see each other they do, while animals, at least judging from my cats, hardly ever look one another in the face. Ultimately, I believe that eye contact changed everything.
 * "Back to the Trees!"

 * Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism, as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.
 * "Back to the Trees!"

 * There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.
 * "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object" 18 April 2010.

 * Make no mistake, the Democrats are socialists (Republicans are, too, but that's another story). Socialism is the doctrine that the wants and needs of the group come before the rights of the individual. The fact is, over its 180-odd years, socialism has failed abjectly everywhere it's been tried, in country after country, and most people are now aware of it. This is the last shot socialists are ever going to get before history finally closes the door on them forever, and the hysteria of their actions during the past two years proves they know it.
 * "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object".

 * Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.
 * "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism" 2 May 2010.

 * Conservatives — Republicans — are socialists. True, they may desire to hold you down atop the stone altar and cut your still-beating heart out with an obsidian knife for a set of entirely different reasons — national security, Judaeo-Christian traditions, 'common' decency — than the liberals or 'progressives' or Democrats do, but to you, the important part is cutting your heart out with an obsidian knife, not whatever excuse they may offer for doing it. This is why, no matter which political party happens to be in power, ordinary people — whose thinking and hard work maintain this civilization each and every day — never seem to get an even break with regard to their individual liberty or holding onto the fruits of their labor. It's why the late philosopher Robert LeFevre referred to Democrats and Republicans as 'Socialist Party A' and 'Socialist Party B'.
 * "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism".

 * Other common names for fascism are 'crony capitalism', 'state capitalism', 'corporate socialism' and 'mercantilism'. Sometimes members of the mercantile class become partners with the state and, in certain circumstances, even end up controlling it. The whole thing looks like a different system than ordinary socialism until you apply the ethical definition. What's more important in a fascist society, the needs and wants of the group, or the rights of the individual? As Mr. Spock once famously observed (in the original James Blish novel Spock Must Die), 'a difference that makes no difference is no difference.'
 * "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism".

 * A border is a completely imaginary line on a paper or cybernetic map that has no genuine counterpart in the real world. Do not mistake it for a property line. It is possible, in some instances, for a border to be congruent with a property line, but they are not the same thing at all. One represents the geographical limit of a military and political claim to authority over a given territory. The other is part of the description of something — in this case, land — lawfully owned by an individual or a voluntary and contractual association of individuals.
 * "Only Nixon" 16 May 2010.

 * Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong — and demonstrably more destructive — for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.
 * "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs" 13 June 2010.

 * Importantly, there is nothing in the Constitution — by which, under Article 6, Section 2, officials at every level of government are obligated to abide — that authorizes the banning of any substance or enforcing that ban with the threat of injury, incarceration, or death. The lawful powers of the federal government are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8, and they do not include forbidding drugs or any other substance. Politicians early in the 20th century understood this, and passed a Constitutional amendment allowing them to outlaw alcohol. No such amendment has ever been passed, or even proposed, with regard to drugs.
 * "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs".

 * America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
 * "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs".

 * Many individuals in government don't seem to understand the laws of economics. Most of them — aside from those in Congress — seem to be concentrated in the area of 'drug enforcement'. They often brag at news conferences that their interception of drugs between producer and consumer has raised the 'street value' of the drugs, meaning that the drugs are now scarcer than they were. What these statists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge is that this only increases the market incentive to cash in on those higher prices by making up for the artificial scarcity.
 * "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs".

 * Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing — if not eliminating altogether — any economic reason to 'push' drugs on children.
 * "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs".

 * Despite the Internet's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best — and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits — since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.
 * "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet" 20 June 2010.

 * The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity — perhaps even more so — as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press.
 * "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet" 20 June 2010.

 * Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians — having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media — have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which — exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue — the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.
 * "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet" 20 June 2010.

 * The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
 * "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet" 20 June 2010.

 * Corporations are properly associated with mercantilism, rather than capitalism. Mercantilism is a system under which government grants special status to one or more company at the expense of its competitors. The British East India Company, for example, possessed an exclusive, royally-granted 'right' to conduct trade between India and China, on the one hand, and the British Empire for more than 250 years. Private capitalism, by contrast, is a system under which various enterprises compete in the marketplace by offering the highest quality goods and services they can, at the lowest possible prices. Progress occurs as individuals and companies strive to raise quality and lower prices.
 * "Corporations, Mercantilism, and Capitalism," 27 June 2010.

 * If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
 * "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War," 11 July 2010.

 * Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
 * "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War," 11 July 2010.

 * You must understand that terrorists, although they may ultimately derive their financial resources or other assets from a government or governments, are theoretically stateless themselves — they're rather like international corporations, in their way — because they reject the idea of a state, they don't wish to be controlled by a state, they have had their state taken away from them or destroyed, they have been denied a chance to create a state of their own, or they were created to provide some government somewhere with what's called 'credible deniability'. When individuals not affiliated with a national government commit violent acts, they are — and ought to be dealt with as — criminals, nothing more and certainly nothing less. Rather than indiscriminately destroy entire nations full of innocent people in retaliation for the criminal behavior of a few, guilty individuals should be pursued and either killed, or captured, tried, and on conviction, appropriately punished.
 * "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War," 11 July 2010.

 * ...the miserable specimens who call themselves 'liberals' are really conservatives: they're desperately — even hysterically — defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans, who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.
 * "A Matter of Definition," 8 August 2010.

 * The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
 * "To Hell With Public Schools," 13 May 2012.

 * A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities — places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations — what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.
 * "In Praise of Social Benefactors," 18 August 2013.

The Bill of Rights was the make-or-break condition that allowed the Constitution to be ratified. No Bill of Rights, no Constitution. And since all political authority in America "trickles down" from the Constitution, no Constitution no government. And, since the Bill of Rights was passed as a unit, a single breach, in any one of the ten articles, breaches them all and with them, the entire Constitution. Every last bit of the authority that derives from it becomes null and void. Let's review: No Second Amendment, no Bill of Rights. No Bill of Rights, no Constitution. No Constitution, no government.
 * The Bill of Rights was, unfortunately misnamed. It was not a list of things Americans were allowed too do, under the Constitution. It was and remains a list of things government is absolutely forbidden to do — like set up a state religion, or steal your house — under any circumstances.
 * "The Deal," 1 December 2013.

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Josaia Waqabaca

Josaia Waqabaca is a former political activist in Fiji, who was imprisoned in 2001 for offences related to the Fiji coup of 2000. He has since professed a change of heart.

Interview, 11 January 2006
Source, Fiji Sun, 11 January 2006.

 * Commander Bainimarama is clean and fighting for the truth. The stand he is taking is going to save the Fijian race.
 * On the opposition of Bainimarama, the Military commander, to many of the policies pursued by the present government.

 * Today, in the streets ordinary Fijians are talking about the truth and cleanliness, which is hard to find in this government. This is because all these years ordinary Fijians like me have been used by elite Fijians and foreigners who provide money to carry out their illegal activities.

 * The brains behind the 2000 political crisis should be brought to justice but they are protected by networks existing within the Government.

 * My fear is that if it is not resolved then it will be Fijians shooting Fijians.

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Maciu Navakasuasua

Maciu Navakasuasua is Fijian public figure and former political organizer, who was imprisoned in 2001 for offences related to the Fiji coup of 2000.

Quotes

 * With the main perpetrators of the 2000 coup around anything disastrous can happen. These people are the root of the coup culture and once they are put away this country can move forward.
 * in: "Interview, 11 January 2006", Fiji Sun, 11 January 2006.

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. jni 13:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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~Claudia~

Why are people stupid? I don't know why people can't be smarter...answer ME!!!

~In Response~

Because the people are raised by idiots, people don't use common sense, and they don't think anything through. That's why.

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User talk:209.174.27.239

~ UDScott 17:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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All Star Batman and Robin

All Star Batman & Robin is an American comic book series written by Frank Miller and penciled by Jim Lee. It was published by DC Comics, with a sporadic schedule, between 2005 and 2008. The series was to be rebooted under the title Dark Knight: Boy Wonder in 2011, when both Miller and Lee were to finish the last six issues.

Dialogue
Batman: [after Dick Grayson's parents are shot to death] He doesn't understand. He can't possibly understand. I couldn't, when it happened to ME.  Vicki Vale: There's something rotten in Gotham City. It wears a badge.  Robin: Batman's thrown me into a car that turns into an airplane and then a submarine. Batman's completely nuts. He kidnaps a kid. He knocks the snot out of cops. He tries to sound like Clint Eastwood. He's out of his mind. And I've just signed on with him. To fight crime! How lame is that? I guess I'm nuts, too.  Batman: [first words to Dick Grayson, yelled angrily at Dick] ON YOUR FEET, SOLDIER!!! You've just been drafted. Into a WAR!  Dick Grayson: Who the hell are you anyway, giving out orders like this? Batman: What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman!  Batman: Dick Grayson. Aerialist. Twelve years old. Brave boy. Damn strong. Not that he's got a prayer of escaping my grip, but he's strong.  Vicki Vale: Batman--he kidnapped that boy! Why? Why?  Batman: My world. Welcome to my world, Dick Grayson. Bats and rats and warts and all. You poor boy. You poor little bastard. Welcome to Hell. Hell. Or the the next best thing.  Alfred: Don't go bleeding all over yourself. It's very important that you stop bleeding all over yourself.  Dick Grayson: [of Batman] Wait a minute--that's not his real voice! It's like he's doing some lame-ass Clint Eastwood impersonation.  Batman: So sleep tight, punk. Sleep tight, my ward. Dick Grayson: Huh? Whuzzat? What the hell's a "ward"? Batman: Shut up! I'll do the talking here.  Dick Grayson: Maybe you oughta pull over. They look serious. The cops, I mean. Batman: You've got a lot to learn, kid.  Dick Grayson: [after his parents' deaths] Their brains splashed all over my feet! What's happening? What's happening? This is all crazy.  Batman: Grief is the enemy. There's no time for grief--there's no room for grief. Grief turns into acceptance...forgiveness. Grief forgives what can never be forgiven--never!!!
 Batman: Like I said son. You've got a lot to learn. And your lessons start right here. Right now. Here's lesson number one: NEVER talk to cops! Not in Gotham. Never let a cop get near you. Not in Gotham. Gotham Cops.
 Batman: Be brave, Dick Grayson. Be brave. Dick Grayson: Yes, sir. I'll be brave.
 Dick Grayson: So what do you call this thing, anyway? Batman: The Batmobile. Dick Grayson: That is so totally queer. Batman: Shut up.
 Batman: Great town, Gotham; you gotta love it--no! You don't!
 Batman: [asking Dick his opinion of the Batcave] Pretty cool, huh? Whatta you say, Junior?
 Dick: Yeah, I guess it's okay. I mean, I've seen better, but I guess this is okay.
 Batman: [thinking to himself] (I don't like this kid. Not one bit!)
 Dick: (upon arrival in the Batcave) First off, can I get something decent to wear instead of these tights? I mean, tights really blow chunks. Batman glares at him. Dick: Sorry. It's just I'm all sweaty, dirty, and I've still got my parents' blood on me. Batman: Yeah, I'll see to it that you get some new clothes. Dick: Thanks. (Batman turns and starts to leave.) Where are you going? Batman: Work. I'll see you later. Dick: What am I supposed to do now? Batman: Whatever you want. You look like you could use some sleep. Dick: And just where am I supposed to sleep? (shivers) Brrr, it's really cold in here!! Batman: (disappears) It's a big cave. Sleep wherever you want. Dick: Hey, what am I supposed to do about food? I'm really hungry!!! Batman: Like I said, it's a big cave! Your food will present itself! Dick: (jumps back after seeing a rat on the floor) Yeesh!
 Alfred: That boy will NOT be reduced to eating rats, sir!
 Batman: [after arguing with Alfred about giving Dick a cheesebuger and fries] Alfred just told me to go take a flying leap. This little brat is gonna ruin everything!
 Batman: EAT GLASS, LAWMAN!!!

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~ Kalki 19:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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That's So Raven

 * Season 1 2 3 4 | Main

That's So Raven (2003-2007) is an American sitcom about Raven Baxter, a teenage psychic that can see into the future. "So I have these occasional visions that may or may not come true." Raven and her family and friends always get involved into weird situations, struggling to stop the visions from coming true.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

Hugh C. Thompson, Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a US Army helicopter pilot who rescued Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war and campaigned to bring those responsible to justice. After receiving the prestigious Soldier's Medal he became a popular speaker on military ethics.

Quotes

 * I'm going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot 'em.
 * To Spec. Lawrence Colburn, giving him the order to fire on any fellow US Army soldiers if they attempted to kill a group of unarmed Vietnamese civilians.

Attributed

 * Don't do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come.
 * In a 2004 interview with AP.

 * Something terrible happened here 30 years ago today. I cannot explain why it happened. I just wish our crew that day could have helped more people than we did.
 * Quoted by CNN, regarding the My Lai massacre.

 * I'd received death threats over the phone. Dead animals on your porch, mutilated animals on your porch some mornings when you get up. So I was not a 'good guy'.
 * In a 2004 interview with 60 minutes.

 * These people were looking at me for help and there was no way I could turn my back on them
 * In a 1998 interview with AP.

 * They said I was screaming quite loud. I threatened never to fly again. I didn't want to be a part of that. It wasn't war.
 * In a 2004 interview with US News & World Report.

Quotes of others about Thompson

 * Thompson landed again. Glenn and I got out of the aircraft, took out the guns. Hugh walked over to this lieutenant [Brooks], and I could tell they were in a shouting match. I thought they were going to get in a fist fight. He told me later what they said. Thompson: 'Let's get these people out of this bunker and get 'em out of here.' Brooks: 'We'll get 'em out with hand grenades.' Thompson: 'I can do better than that. Keep your people in place. My guns are on you.' Hugh was outranked, so this was not good to do, but that's how committed he was to stopping it.
 * Thompson's gunner, Spec. Lawrence Colburn

 * He was treated like a traitor for 30 years, so he was conditioned to just shut up and be quiet. Every bit of information I got from him, I had to drag it out of him.
 * Trent Angers, Thompson's biographer

 * What a great man. There are so many people today walking around alive because of him, not only in Vietnam, but people who kept their units under control under other circumstances because they had heard his story. We may never know just how many lives he saved.
 * Col. Tom Kolditz, head of the Army academy's behavioral sciences and leadership department.

 * You can't imagine what courage it took to do what he did.
 * Seymour Hersh, journalist who "broke" the My Lai massacre story.

 * He was the guy who by his heroic actions gave a morality and dignity to the American military effort. At war sometimes things get topsy turvy, so he was a moral example at a time when things were pure evil.
 * Douglas Brinkley, Tulane history professor.

The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story
''Published in 1999, The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story is the account of the My Lai massacre acording to Hugh Thompson, author Trent Angers

 * Thompson landed his helicopter and dismounted. Sergeant David Mitchell (Squad Leader, 1st Platoon, C Company) walked over to him. When asked by Thompson whether any help could be provided to the people in the ditch, the sergeant replied that the only way to help them was to put them out of their misery. 2nd Lt. William Calley (1st Platoon Commander, C Company) then came up, and the two had the following conversation:
 * Thompson:: What's going on here, lieutenant?
 * Calley:: This is my business.
 * Thompson:: What is this? Who are these people?
 * Calley:: Just following orders.
 * Thompson:: Orders? Whose orders?
 * Calley:: Just following...
 * Thompson:: But, these are human beings, unarmed civilians, sir.
 * Calley:: Look Thompson, this is my show. I'm in charge here. It ain't your concern.
 * Thompson:: Yeah, great job.
 * Calley:: You better get back in that chopper and mind your own business.
 * Thompson:: You ain't heard the last of this!

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Kenan & Kel

Kenan & Kel is an American teen comedy black sitcom created by Kim Bass for Nickelodeon. It starred then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. 62 episodes and a made-for-TV movie were produced over four seasons.

Pilot [1.1]

 * Chris: Kenan, this is coming out of your paycheck! Now, clean up these puffs, pronto! [to Kel] Kel, you're fired!
 * Kel: I don't work here.
 * Chris: Well, see to it that you don't.

The Tainting Of The Screw [1.2]

 * Kel: I... DROPPED THE SCREW.... IN THE TUNA!

Doing Things the Hemingway [1.3]

 * Kel: [as he hangs by a ladder from a helicopter, after his pants and underpants have accidentally been ripped off] It's cold up here!

Mental Kel-Epathy [1.4]

 * Kel: I'm not psychic, I can't predict the future, I'm still confused about the past!

Duh Bomb [1.5]

 * Chris: Hey! Hey! What happened to my store? Why are people waving Orange soda in the air as if they just don't care?
 * Guy with Piercings: Hey, three bucks to get in, Dude!
 * Chris: Listen, this MY store! And take those pins out of your head!

Mo' Sweater Blues [1.6]

 * Roger: Kenan...
 * Kenan: Pop...
 * Roger: What in the world is going on here? And what is Kyra doing here?
 * Sheryl: And boy where in the world are your pants?

 * Kenan: Tell your Grandmama I'm sorry!
 * [Kel taps Kenan's shoulder]
 * Kenan: What?
 * Kel: Her Grandmama's dead!
 * Kenan and Kel: Oh, man!

Diamonds Are for Roger [1.7]

 * Kenan: Hey, man, what'd you do?
 * Kel: I closed the door.
 * Kenan: WHY?!!!

The Cold War [1.8]

 * Roger: [notices a pilot has parachuted out of a plane thanks to Kenan and Kel's Intervention] He jumped out? Why? Where'd the plane go?
 * Kenan and Kel: Nebraska!

Dial 'O' for Oops [1.10]

 * Kenan: I'm gonna ask Amy out. That's all there is to it.
 * Kel: But Kenan, your dad said...
 * Kenan: Kel! My father's married. He doesn't understand what it means to love a woman.

Baggin' Saggin' Kel [1.12]

 * Kel: "Help! Can anybody hear me? I'm trapped down here with a can of tuna fish! Kenan!"
 * Kenan: "What'cha doing in the bag, Kel?"
 * Chris: "You're letting us down, Kel. Rigby's is going to lose and it's gonna be all your fault!"
 * Kenan: "Kel! You're not supposed to put yourself in the bag, kooky!"
 * Kel: "I think I'm dreaming or something."
 * ???: "Kel! Kel!"
 * Kel: "Who are you?!"
 * Bottle of Orange Soda: "I'm Orange Soda! And you'll never drink me again!"
 * Kel: "AAHH! NO!"
 * Angus: "Hi Kel, it's Angus. You can't even win this contest in your dreams! *laughs evily* LOSER! LOSER! KEL'S A LOSER!"

 * Kel: "I can handle this myself!"
 * Kenan: "You can't even handle cartoons by yourself!"

 * Chris: "Wait a minute! Are you trying to tell me that we beat Angus through trickery and deceit?!"
 * Kenan and Kel: "Yeah...we're sorry...I guess...I'm terribly sorry..."
 * Chris: "...I LOVE YOU GUYS!"

Safe and Sorry [1.13]

 * Kenan: Come on, man. Give me one good reason why we shouldn't go check out that safe.
 * Kel: That safe doesn't belong to us.
 * Kenan: So? Finders keepers.
 * Kel: Losers dead!

 * Kenan: Would you quit blubbering?
 * Kel: I need to blubber.

Pair-Rental Guidance [2.1]

 * Roger: [after Kenan's scheme for his fake parents to meet his principal backfires] Who are all of you?
 * William Buckman III: Er, uh... we're the Rockmores!
 * Sheryl: *We're* The Rockmores.
 * Principal Dimly: I'm confused.
 * Kel Kimble: I'm outta here. [tries to run but is grabbed by Roger] Uh!
 * Kenan: [starts to cry] I'm in trouble. [hides behind door]

Clowning Around [2.2]

 * Kenan and Kel: [Both are tied up on the shop floor, crying] We've been robbed by a Clown!

Who Loves Orange Soda? [2.4]

 * Kenan: [speaking to Kel] Oh, man. Your insides were more orange than a Nickelodeon logo!

Haven't Got Time for the Paint [2.5]

 * Kel: [shows a painting of a beautiful sunset on a beach] Hey, Chris. Check it out.
 * Chris: Wow! That's terrif. Who's the artist?
 * Kel: Me. [chuckles]
 * Chris: You!
 * Kel: Yeah. I painted it in art class.
 * Chris: Wow. I'm impressed. I always thought you were talentless.
 * Kel: Man, thanks!
 * [Chris gives Kel a high five]

Ditch Day Afternoon [2.7]

 * Kel: Aww man, I knew we shoulda gone to school.

 * Chris: What's with all the hullabaloo?
 * Kenan and Kel: [look at each other, and then raise their arm confused] Hullabaloo?
 * Chris: You know what I mean.

Get the Kel Outta Here [2.8]

 * Kenan: [on Kyra's sculpture] What are they teaching you? Nasty freak monsters?
 * Kyra: This head happens to look exactly like Kel.
 * Kenan: Like I said, what are they teaching you? Nasty freak monsters?
 * [Kenan, Kel, and Sheryl laugh]
 * Kel: [stops laughing] Hey, wait a minute!

Foul Bull [2.9]

 * Kenan: [sees news article on Chicago blaming them for Ron Harper's injury] Oh no!
 * Kel: Aw man!
 * Kenan: Kel, look!
 * Kel: I know, man. the Pope has canceled his trip to Acapulco!

The Crush [2.10]

 * Kel: [to Kenan] When you have kids, can they call me Uncle Kel Kel? "Hey, Uncle Kel Kel! We love you, Uncle Kel Kel! Do that funky dance, Uncle Kel Kel!"

Turkey Day [2.11]

 * Kyra: [Kenan is setting up Thanksgiving dinner] Hey Kenan, whatha you doing?
 * Kenan: What's it look like I'm doing? I'm setting the table.
 * Kyra: Yeah, setting it wrong.

Fenced In [3.1]

 * Chris: Kel, could you please toss me the duster? [Kel looks around and sees a can of peas, picks it up, and throws it at Chris] Ow! Ah! What'd you do that for?!
 * Kel: Well you told me to throw a can of peas at you.
 * Chris: I asked you to toss me the duster!
 * Kel: Oh, I'm sorry. It sounded like you said throw a can of peas at you.
 * Chris: Why would I ask you to throw a can of peas at me?
 * Kel: I don't know. I thought it seemed kind of strange.
 * Chris: You seem kind of strange!

Skunkator vs. Mothman [3.2]

 * Kenan: [after He and Kel return from the comic book convention, having left Sharla to fend herself] Hey Sharla, I'm ba... What happened?
 * Kel: Well, Obviously the register broke, the ice machine overflowed and the hot dogs caught on fire.
 * Kenan: Duh.

The Raffle [3.3]

 * Kenan: [after buying an inexpensive television] Man! Why'd you have to break the video camera? No, no, better yet, why'd you lose the winnin' raffle ticket? No, no! Why'd you have to break Chris' TV?!
 * Kel: It was an accident. It was an accident. [pulls out a popped balloon] I had to get my balloon back.
 * Kenan: Oh, man. I'm-- I'm dead. Oh, I'm dead. I'm de-dead.
 * Kel: (singing) DEAD, DEAD, KENAN, KENAN, DEAD, DEAD, KENAN, KENAN, DEAD, DEAD, KENAN, KENAAAAAAAN!
 * Kenan: STOP IT!
 * Kel: I'm sorry, I can't get that tune out of my head.

The Chicago Witch Trials [3.4]

 * Becky: The Salem Witch Trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692.
 * Teacher: Very good!
 * Becky: Twenty people were falsely accused of being witches. With little or no evidence they were put to death.
 * Marc: Well, maybe they were witches.
 * Kenan: Oh come on! Everybody knows that there's no such thing as witches.
 * Becky: That's not true. There are witches, there are a *lot* of witches.
 * Teacher: Well it is true that people actually still practice witchcraft.
 * Becky: That's right, but that doesn't make them evil monsters. Most of the people who practice witchcraft are normal like you, or you, or me!
 * Kenan: Ah! Normal people, like you! [his chair breaks]

To Catch a Thief [3.5]

 * Kel: Maybe a ninja stole your watch! He broke into your room all like, "I'm a ninja! I'm a ninja!"
 * Chris: Now Kenan, you shouldn’t jump to conclusions
 * Chris: THIEF!
 * Kenan: WHYYYYYYYY???
 * Marc Cram: I am so A-N-G-R-Y!
 * Kel: Your hungry?
 * All: ANGRY!
 * Mrs. Cram: You people are the worst neighbors in the entire world

I.Q. Can Do Better [3.7]

 * Kel: My brain is so powerful. I bet I can break this desk with it! [hits head on desk]

Attack of the Bug Man [3.8]

 * Kel: You're out of orange soda.
 * Kenan: That's impossible, we just put some in the refrigerator.
 * Kel: Yeah, and you're out of refrigerators too.

 * Officer McWiggins: [Seeing Kel passed out on the floor] What's wrong with him?
 * Kenan: A lot of things. Basically, he just passed out when he found out we were robbed.

Housesitter [3.13]

 * Chris: (gasps) What the
 * Chris: KENAN!!!!

Picture Imperfect [3.17]

 * Marc Cram: You just destroyed the M-Z.
 * Kenan: WHYYYYYYYY???

The Honeymoon's Over [4.2]

 * Kel: [after Sheryl kicks him out of the living room] Fine! I don't wanna be in your stupid old book club, anyhow! Oh, and by the way; I found Petals of Sorrow to be amateurish, The Exposition was tedious, and the characters were one-dimensional! Heard what I said?! One-dimensional!

Oh, Brother [4.10]

 * Kel: You just lost a customer bub, I'm never taking any free stuff from this store again!

 * Kenan: All we have to do is make it seem that Chris' life is interesting. Give me the phone.
 * Kel: Oh I see where your going with this. When Chris' brother sees him with this phone he will be so impressed!

Ending Random Items Gag

 * At the end of every episode, a discussion following this template takes place:
 * Kenan: Kel, grab (At this point, Kenan lists several items, usually with no logical relation, such as a cow, a sandbag, a television and a pound of butter) and meet me at the (Kenan names a random location). Now come on, (some weird nickname e.g. Skippy!)
 * Kel: But where do I find those things? (Kel then makes several complaints regarding the items). KE-KENAN!! Awww, here it goes!

 * Kenan: All we need is some raccoon juice.

 * Kenan: Kel, get a bucket of glue and meet me at the church. Let's go on to the church.
 * Kel: Kenan! No, no! You're gonna get people all sticky. Kenan, thou shalt not glue! K-Kenan? Aw, here it goes!

 * Grab some Peanut Butter and some snow shoes and meet me down at the bus stop.

 * Get me some bread, some sticks, and some bread sticks.

 * A waffle iron, and an octopus, and meet me at the library.

 * A jump rope, a walrus and one of those round sticky things and meet me where I'm going. Come on, Stuffy!

 * A spicerack, a spice girl and a spicy burrit-tut-o and meet me at the ice rink. Come on, Froggy!

 * A pony, a petunia and a big ball of twine and meet me at the dairy farm.

 * I'm gonna need you to grab 900 hard boiled eggs, a slingshot, and a chainsaw, and meet me on the roof. Come on, Tiddilywink....child!

 * Something, something else, and a third thing, and meet me there. Come on, Nickname!

 * Cheddar cheese, swiss cheese and macaroni and cheese and meet me in the audience.

 * A tarantula, a drum set and a mannequin and meet me at Bill's house.

 * A seal, some Aveel, and Shaquille O'Neal, and meet me down at the Ferris Wheel. To be real!

 * A handkerchief, 12 lbs. of ice and a knockwurst and meet me at the blood bank.

 * A pound of butter and meet me in Mt. Fuji. Now come on, Hiroshima!

 * Some cheerleaders, some cheerleaders, and some cheerleaders, and me at the pool. Come on, Shifty! Cheerleaders and the poo-- never mind.
 * Kenan! I don't wanna go swimming with any cheerleaders! Wait wait wait wait wait a minute. [thinks, smiles] Yes, I do. I wanna go swimming with some cheerleaders. Hey, man, don't leave without me! Here I come! AWW! HERE IT GOES!

 * Some porridge, a surfboard, and some box springs, and meet me at the secret hideaway. Now come on, Punchy!

 * A tortilla, some beans and a pound full of Guacamole, and meet me at Dr. Frank's House of Waffles. That's Dr. Frank's House of Waffles... when you're in the mood for some delicious waffles, just open your mouth and say 'ah'. (takes off jacket revealing a Dr. Frank's House of Waffles logo on his undershirt)

 * Dennis Rodman, some gravy, and a dinosaur egg, and meet me at the courthouse.

 * A door, a talkin cow, and a throat lozenge and meet me at the frozen yogurt shop. Come on, Fishy!

 * Some cottage cheese, an armadillo and a whole mess of sandpaper and meet me at the school library. Come on, plucky!

 * A flotation device, a bottle of hot sauce, and a guy named "Mad Dog" and meet me at the volcano. Now come on, Scrubby!

 * Grab a cup full of beans, a handful of dirt and and a dog named Blue and meet me down by the old oak tree. Now come on, Sneezy!

 * A handful of dirt, two dozen assorted donuts, and a aardvark, and meet me at the gymnasium. Now come on, Twisty!

 * A textbook, a campus map and a beekeeper suit and meet me in college. Come on, Billy!

 * Something good, something bad and something ugly and meet me at the carrel. Come on, Partner!

 * A clown, a flagpole and a submarine and meet me in my room. Come on, Buffalo Bottom!

 * Grab some Nail polish, some nail polish remover and uh any third item, and meet me over there. Come on, Velvet.

 * A cow... a bone doctor... and an eyebrow trimmer, and meet me on the roof, come on, sailor!

 * A bunch of weird stuff and meet me later so we can get into... some kind of trouble?

 Kel: Kenan, that's a lot of stuff! How am I supposed to carry all that? I'm the man! Awwww, here it goes!!!
 * A oyster, a bicycle pump, a white picket fence, a magic flute, one of them little bitty blue things, a pound of butter, a pattymelt, a lawnmower, Bryant Gumbel, and a bunch of assorted cookies and other things we can snack on and meet me at the circus. Come on, Spicy! I'm the man!

Main characters

 * Kenan Rockmore - Kenan Thompson
 * Kel Kimble - Kel Mitchell
 * Kyra Rockmore - Vanessa Baden
 * Roger Rockmore - Ken Foree
 * Sheryl Rockmore - Teal Marchande
 * Chris Potter - Dan Frischman

Recurring characters

 * Sharla Morrison - Alexis Fields
 * Marc Cram - Biagio Messina
 * Mrs. Quagmire - Doreen Weese
 * Principal Dimly - Hersha Parady

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Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper (born April 30, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) was the Prime Minister of Canada. Harper was leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, a party created from the merger of the Canadian Alliance Party (formerly the Reform Party) and the Progressive Conservative Party.

1990s

 * Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion… And whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or ten governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangement of any future country may be.
 * Speech to the Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994.

 * Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy…These achievements are due in part to the Reform Party…
 * Speech to the Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994.

 * In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, I don't feel particularly bad for many of these people.
 * Speaking in Montréal, 1997. Sourced from Rebel Youth magazine, Fall-Winter Edition 2006.

 * These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of “child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of “cultural identity. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects.”
 * The Bulldog, National Citizens Coalition, February 1997.

 * "Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
 * BC Report Newsmagazine, January 11, 1999.

Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
From a speech to the Council for National Policy, a conservative American lobby group, June 1997, as reported by the CBC

 * [Y]our country, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

 * It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.

 * [S]ome basic facts about Canada that are relevant to my talk... Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

 * In terms of the unemployed... don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

 * While [Montreal] it is a French-speaking city – largely – it has an enormous English-speaking minority and a large number of what are called ethnics: they who are largely immigrant communities, but who politically and culturally tend to identify with the English community.

 * [W]e have a Supreme Court, like yours, which, since we put a charter of rights in our constitution in 1982, is becoming increasingly arbitrary and important. It is also appointed by the Prime Minister. Unlike your Supreme Court, we have no ratification process.

 * [T]he NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men.

 * [The Liberal party is a] moderate Democrat, a type of Clinton-pragmatic Democrat. It's moved in the last few years very much to the right on fiscal and economic concerns, but still believes in government intrusion in the economy where possible, and does, in its majority, believe in fairly liberal social values.

 * In the last Parliament, [the Liberal Party] enacted comprehensive gun control...

 * There is an important caveat to its liberal social values. For historic reasons that I won't get into, the Liberal party gets the votes of most Catholics in the country, including many practising Catholics.

 * Then there is the Progressive Conservative party, the PC party, which won only 20 seats. Now, the term Progressive Conservative will immediately raise suspicions in all of your minds. It should. It's obviously kind of an oxymoron.

 * But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

 * In fact, before the Reform Party really became a force in the late '80s, early '90s, the leadership of the Conservative party was running the largest deficits in Canadian history.

 * They were in favour of gay rights officially, officially for abortion on demand... This explains one of the reasons why the Reform party has become such a power.

 * The Reform party is much closer to what you would call conservative Republican.

 * Let me say a little bit about the Reform party because I want you to be very clear on what the Reform party is and is not... The Reform party is very much a leader-driven party.

 * [The Reform Party] also has some Buchananist tendencies. I know there are probably many admirers of Mr. Buchanan here, but I mean that in the sense that there are some anti-market elements in the Reform Party.

 * The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative economic things.

 * [The Reform Party is] also the most conservative socially, but it's not a theocon party, to use the term. The Reform party does favour the use of referendums and free votes in Parliament on moral issues and social issues.

 * Last year, when we had the Liberal government putting the protection of sexual orientation in our Human Rights Act, the Reform Party was opposed to that, but made a terrible mess of the debate. In fact, discredited itself on that issue, not just with the conventional liberal media, but even with many social conservatives by the manner in which it mishandled that.

 * The party system that is developing here in Canada is a party system that replicates the antebellum period, the pre-Civil War period of the United States... [T]he dynamics, the political and partisan dynamics of this, are remarkably similar.

 * The Bloc Québécois is equivalent to your Southern secessionists, Southern Democrats, states rights activists. The Bloc Québécois, its 44 seats, come entirely from the province of Quebec. But even more strikingly, they come from ridings, or election districts, almost entirely populated by the descendants of the original European French settlers.

 * If you look at the surviving PC support, it's very much concentrated in Atlantic Canada, in the provinces to the east of Quebec. These are very much equivalent to the United States border states. They're weak economically. They have very grim prospects if Quebec separates. These people want a solution at almost any cost.

 * The Liberal party is very much your northern Democrat, or mainstream Democratic party, a party that is less concessionary to the secessionists than the PCs, but still somewhat concessionary. And they still occupy the mainstream of public opinion in Ontario, which is the big and powerful province, politically and economically, alongside Quebec.

 * The Reform party is very much a modern manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada; the U.S. Republicans started in the western United States.

2000

 * Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
 * National Post, Dec. 8 2000 p. A18.

 * If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away… This is one more reason why Westerners, but Albertans in particular, need to think hard about their future in this country. After sober reflection, Albertans should decide that it is time to seek a new relationship with Canada. …Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. It is to take the bricks and begin building another home – a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous".
 * National Post, December 8, 2000.

2001

 * You’ve got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.
 * The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

 * It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.
 * National Post, January 24, 2001, “Open Letter to Ralph Klein”

 * After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn’t mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It’s a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.…Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
 * Calgary Sun, May 6, 2001.

2002

 * There is a continental culture. There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.
 * Report Newsmagazine January 7, 2002.

 * I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
 * Report Newsmagazine, March 25 2002: On the Iraq war.

 * I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. …Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.
 * New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, May 29, 2002.

 * I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it.
 * Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 2002: About Canada

 * Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.
 * Hansard, October 23, 2002.

2003

 * This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion… In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.
 * Hansard, January 29, 2003: On the Iraq war.

 * We support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win
 * Montreal Gazette, April 2, 2003: On the Iraq war.

 * We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
 * Canadian Press Newswire, April 11, 2003: On the Iraq war.

 * "It [referring to calling a Minister "Idiot"] was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.
 * Montreal Gazette, April 2003: On the Iraq war.

 * The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.
 * Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper: The New North Strong and Free, May 5, 2003.

 * On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. … I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
 * Maclean’s, August, 25, 2003: On the Iraq war.

2004

 * But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
 * National Post, March 6, 2004.

 * We must aim to make Canada a lower tax jurisdiction than the United States.
 * Vancouver Province, April 6, 2004: On Taxes.

2005

 * Same sex marriage is not a human right. … [U]ndermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.
 * Hansard, February 16, 2005.

 * Corruption is not a Canadian value!
 * In response to former Prime Minister Paul Martin suggesting that Liberal Party values are Canadian values on April 10th, 2005. CTV News

 * I believe that all taxes are bad.
 * CTV.ca news, December 1, 2005, "Tory tax cut promise dominates campaign".

 * Canada is a vast and empty country.
 * 2006 Leaders' Debate, December 15, 2005.

2006

 * Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.
 * Faith Today, January 11, 2006, "Faith and Politics: Party Leaders Respond".

 * Gar nar dai doe heem.
 * Address 22 June 2006 by the Prime Minister on the Chinese Head Tax Redress]. (加拿大道歉, Canada apologizes.)
 * The Cantonese heading which Harper used in apology for the head tax charged against Chinese immigrants between 1923 and 1947.

 * I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.
 * Interview with Kevin Newman, Global National April 5th, 2006.

 * Now I know it’s unfashionable to refer to colonialism in anything other than negative terms. And certainly, no part of the world is unscarred by the excesses of empires. But in the Canadian context, the actions of the British Empire were largely benign and occasionally brilliant...This genius for governance shown by the mother country at the time no doubt explains in part why Canada’s path to independence was so long, patient and peaceful.
 * Address to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce July 14, 2006 http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=2&id=1247 : On Canada

 * When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.
 * 39th Canadian General Election 2006 - On October 31, 2006, barely ten months into the Conservative run minority Government of Canada, Canadian (Conservative) federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new 34% tax on income trust distributions.

2007

 * Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.
 * The Star, January 30, 2007.

2008

 * The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history… Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.
 * Apology to Residential School victims, Parliament, June, 2008.: On Canada

 * In exercising our sovereignty over these waters, we are not only fulfilling our duty to the people who called this northern frontier home, and to the generations that will follow; we are also being faithful to all who came before us, who through great hardship and sacrifice made a quest for knowledge of the North.
 * Announcement of the John G. Diefenbaker icebreaker project, August 28, 2008.

 * "It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq."
 * To Gilles Duceppe during the 2008 English leaders' debate, October 2, 2008: On the Iraq war.

2009

 * Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself,
 * March 15th, 2009.

 * We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.
 * At Press Conference at Pittsburgh, September 2009.

2011

 * We're very concerned about CRTC's decision on usage-based billing and its impact on consumers. I've asked for a review of the decision./Nous sommes très préoccupés par la décision du CRTC sur la facturation selon l'usage. J'ai demandé qu'on examine cette décision. (From post made on http://www.facebook.com/#!/pmharper on 02/01/2011).

 * A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, “They’re not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.”
 * CPAC, February 11, 2011, http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=1383&hl=e.

 * I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.
 * 2011 English Language Leaders' Debate, April 12, 2011, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110413/main-election-110413/20110413?s_name=election2011.

 * When people think of Islamic terrorism, they think of Afghanistan, or maybe they think of some place in the Middle East, but the truth is that threat exists all over the world ... There are a number of threats on a number of levels, but if you are talking about terrorism it is Islamicism ... There are other threats out there, but that is the one that I can tell you occupies the security apparatus most regularly in terms of actual terrorist threats ... homegrown [Islamic] terrorism is something we keep an eye on.
 * S. Harper: ‘Islamicism’ Canada’s Biggest Threat: PM - OnIslam, September 7, 2011 Harper says 'Islamicism' biggest threat to Canada - CBC News, September 6, 2011

2013

 * Out security agencies work with each other and with others around the globe to track people who are threats to Canada and to watch threats that may evolve. I think though,  this is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. It’s time to treat this- these things are serious threats. Global terrorist attacks, people who have agendas of violence—deep and abiding threats to all the values that our society stands for.
 * In response to an alleged plot to attack a VIA Rail passenger train, Toronto Star, April 25, 2013, http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/04/25/stephen_harper_terror_threats_are_no_time_for_apos_sociology_apos_.html

 * a light of freedom and democracy in what is otherwise a region of darkness will always have Canada as a friend
 * describing Israel in December 2013 ("last month") according to 18 January 2014 article from Times of Israel

2014

 * Israel is the Middle East’s only legitimate democracy, surrounded by cadres, warlords and villains that do not respect democracy or human rights. These bellicose nations jealously regard Israel, envying its success, stability, and might. Israel faces an impossible calculus between defending itself and facing angry outcries or risking its own destruction.
 * Stephen Harper, as quoted in "We Must Support Democracy in the Middle East" (31 January 2014), The Barrie Examiner.

2015

 * we do not offer them a better health-care plan than the ordinary Canadian can receive. I think that’s something that new and old stock Canadians can agree with
 * 17 September 2015 according to 18 September 2015 article by Peter Edwards mentioning "the phrase “old stock Canadians” used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Thursday’s leadership debate."

Quotes about Harper

 * I think he's just out to get the Jewish vote. But that's not the way to do it. That's so insincere. I know that Jews seem to think Stephen Harper is so pro-Israel. I think he's capitalizing on that.
 * 8 October 2007 in Ottawa Citizen

 * When I recently re-read the definition of the term, "malignant narcissism", I felt like I was sitting in the gallery of the House of Commons, watching Harper tell outrageous lies about his opponents (like how they support the Taliban or their family is a terrorist) under the libel protection afforded to him in the House, makeup running in its customary stream down the right side of his face, eyes flashing in that rare emotional occurrence mentioned above, lips pulled back against his teeth in an expression that more resembles a rabid dog about to attack than an actual, human smile...
 * R.K. Finch, The Singular Face of Megalomania, The Metaball, March 2008.

 * Harper is a nerd who aspires to bullydom. He keeps his caucus on a short leash. He speaks to the public via ads. The press and the people - the ingrates! - cannot be trusted to stay on message.
 * Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains, p. 161. published in 2010

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Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs (born February 14, 1921, in Akron, Ohio) is a long-time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer.

Quotes

 * Such close observations of apes and birds and dolphins remind us that humanity is part of a great animal kingdom. All species within this kingdom differ from one another in significant ways, to be sure, but the kingdom does not seem to be organized on the superior/inferior hierarchy. Species are merely different from one another; they are not better than, nor more or less advanced than, each other. The core experience of all animal life is strikingly similar.
 * "ABC Radio Perspective on ABC News 20/20 on May 29, 1994"

 * This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.
 * (1997)

 * In today's anti-drug climate, people don't want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that time the medical literature didn't list any of the ill effects claimed by today's drug warriors.
 * "Hugh Downs commentary on hemp, for ABC News, NY, 11/90"

 * If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.
 * "Hugh Downs commentary on hemp, for ABC News, NY, 11/90"

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 * A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

 * I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

 * I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

 * To have a facility like this really adds a world-class potential (to the area), … I'm sure I'll be out here to see some shows.

title: Hugh Downs


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