“This is the biggest do-nothing Congress in history. By any objective standard, they deserve a failing grade.”
–Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
“It’s almost like the perfect storm forming against us.”
–Tony Fabrizio, a GOP consultant, on the possible damage that could be caused by former Rep. Mark Foley and by Bob Woodward’s new book on the Bush administration.
“The implication that if you stop killing or capturing people who are trying to kill you, then therefore the world would be a better place, is obviously nonsensical.”
–Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting.
“I would have paid him 100 grand to help us with marketing, just to get a half-hour of his time. As it turned out, I got a half-hour of his time for nothing. We’re very grateful.”
–Fox News boss Roger Ailes, on former President Bill Clinton’s on-air criticism of the network on “Fox News Sunday.”
“When this kid put a gun to me and held it to my face and, first he shot it, then pointed it at me, I thought he was going to harm me. … When that happened, I said, I’ve got to get a little closer to the biggest icon in the world. It ain’t Michael Jordan. It ain’t Bob Marley, Che Guevara, even John Lennon. It’s Jesus. Nobody’s got more followers.”
–Lamar Odom, forward for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, who was robbed at gunpoint.
“I don’t have Oprah’s money. I can’t come up with $400 million overnight.”
–Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele, on the county’s huge budget deficit.
“There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants.”
–Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), on the homeland security spending bill that he says does not include strong enough security requirements to protect against a terrorist attack on chemical plants.
“[North Korea] can have a future or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both.”
–Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, after Pyongyang announced plans to conduct its first nuclear test.
