Quote of the Day

^ That's a good one there. lol

 

If we gave Olympic medals for fiscal irresponsibility, President Bush would take the gold, the silver and the bronze.

- KENT CONRAD, Democratic Senator, on Bush's record budget deficit of $482 billion

 

close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

 

That wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for President.

- Heiress PARIS HILTON, in a video mocking a John McCain campaign ad that used her image

 

At least half the people I know can't wait for the Games to be over.

- (WU a Beijing ice cream vendor, on how authorities, in a sweep to beautify the city, have forced street merchants like him to pack up their carts until the Olympics are over)

 

We missed that, but I think us and 99.999% of the rest of the people in the world did too.

- RICHARD WAGONER, CEO of General Motors Corp., on being unable to predict how quickly oil prices would rise. GM is now making a series of job cuts and asset sales

 

Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.

- Rep. JANE HARMAN, D-California, during a House panel investigating the way the military handles reports of sexual assault

 

The way gas prices are, people are rediscovering their feet.

-PAM FISCHER, highway traffic safety director in New Jersey, which recently launched a "Cops in the Crosswalks" program in which officers are sent into traffic to make motorists pay more attention to pedestrians.

 

The Americans? We're going to smash them. That's what we came here for.

-ALAIN BERNARD, French Olympic swimmer, on how he believed the Men's 4x100m relay would go. The next day the American team crushed the world record by 4 seconds, and edged out the Bernard and his pals for the Gold.

 

We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.

- AL GORE, urging that the United States abandon the use of carbon-based fuels for electricity within 10 years

 

I've got three races left, so there had better be something left in the tank.

- MICHAEL PHELPS, U.S. swimmer, who has now won more Olympic gold medals than anyone else in history. He took his 10th and 11th on July 13

 

better late than.......... pregnant

 

I didn't take it very seriously. I guess everything the President does is interesting.

- President GEORGE W. BUSH, after cameras caught him at the Beijing Olympics playfully patting the back of U.S. women's beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor

 

Benoit yourself

 

The white population is older and very much centered around the aging baby boomers who are well past their high fertility years.

- WILLIAM FREY, demographer at the Brookings Institution, on the new U.S. Census Bureau projection that predicts Caucasians will no longer be the majority ethnicity in America within 35 years.

 

No, no. I'm not ready to hang up my G-string yet.

- TEMPEST STORM, an 80-year-old stripper in Las Vegas. She has reportedly danced for Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole

 

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

-James Dean-

 

Bless his heart, President of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

- NANCY PELOSI, House Speaker, blasting President Bush after he scolded Congress for failing to pass bills

 

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

BTW, how do you associate the following with the Democrats? "No, no. I'm not ready to hang up my G-string yet".