Liberals Say the Darndest Things!

This article has taken me a while to research. Many of these quotes tend to get covered up quickly. Please enjoy.

(From the "botched joke" category...)
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
-- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

(From the A + B = C category...)
"We must be able to arrest people before they commit crimes. By registering guns and knowing who has them we can do that. If they have guns they are pretty likely to commit a crime."
-- Vermont State Senator Mary Ann Carlson

(Two from the "sounds eerily familiar" category...)
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
-- U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, December 1993

and then. . .

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.

(From the "oh boy what's coming I love surprises" category...)
"The children who know how to think for themselves, spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone (would be) interdependent."
-- John Dewey, founder of "progressive education" and whose programs are today the norm in public schools.

(From the "I love to snort Ritalin" category...)
"Schools will become clinics whose purpose is to provide individualized, psycho-social treatment for the student, and teachers must become psycho-social therapists. This will include biochemical and psychological mediation of learning, as drugs are introduced experimentally to improve in the learner such qualities as personality, concentration, and memory."
--National Education Association report entitled "Education for the '70's." (1979)

(From the "can't we all just get along" category...)
"The battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom...between the rotting corpse of Christianity...and the new faith of humanism. Humanism will emerge triumphant."
-- John Dunphy, "The Humanist" January/February, 1983.

(Another from the "botched joke" category...)
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
-- Hillary Clinton, 1993

(From the "United Nations is now hiring" category...)
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
--Strobe Talbot, (Deputy Secretary of State,'94-'01 ) Time, July 20, 1992.

(From the "probably taken out of context" category...)
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
--David Rockefeller in Germany 1991

Feel free to pause at this time and try and contain yourself. . . Okay, I'll spare your sanity and wrap it up.

(From the "practice what you preach" category...)
"When you hear somebody [criticizing the federal government], you ought to stand up and double up your fist and stick it in the sky and shout them down."
--Bill Clinton, June 1, 1995. speech in Billings, Montana.

(From the "way over my head" category...)
INTERVIEWER: "Do you think Clinton is an honest man?"
DAN RATHER: "I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."

(Probably another botched joke...)
"We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. ... Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us."
--Boston Gay Community News in February 1987

(From the "Hoo-ray!" category...)
"The number of Down's Syndrome infants in Washington state in 1976 was 64% lower than it would have been without legal abortion."
-- Jocelyn Elders

(From the "News Media is way too conservative" category...)
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we think they ought to have."
-- Richard Salant, [Former] President of CBS News

(From the "Bush played on your fears" category...)
"We know that he [Saddam] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
-- Al Gore

(From the "I went to a Buddhist temple and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" category...)
"A zebra does not change its spots"
-- Al Gore

Thank you for reading my article. Don't take any of this too seriously, it's all just talk. . .