Gore Vidal@Commentary@The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

Steve@Martin@There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.

Emo@Philips@You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Rodney@Dangerfield@One day as I came home early from work ..... I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy .... Hey buddy .... why are you doing that for? He said .... Because you came home early.

Steven@Wright@How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?

George@Carlin@Have you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Stephen Gowans@Fascism - It Has Happened Here@George W. Bush promulgates a new defense doctrine that would allow the Pentagon to undertake pre-emptive attacks. "If you wait for a threat to fully develop, you've waited too long," he explains. This is like walking down the street and emptying an M-16 into passers-by who aren't wearing business suits. "Potential muggers," you explain. 

George Carlin@Braindroppings@ Sometimes, a person who is some distance away from you will say something you don't quite understand, so you ask them to repeat it, and you still can't make out what they’re saying. So you ask them two or three more times to repeat it, and by that time you're getting embarrassed, so you pretend to understand and say, "Yeah!" You know, just to be done with it. Then later, it turns out what they said was, "We're coming over tonight to remove your wife's ovaries. Will that be all right?

James Carroll@Intimations of America's Mortality@On this earth, within the limits of time, no nation is indispensable. No nation is forever. When it comes to the human condition, no nation is exceptional. And if one nation is ''under God,'' it is only because every nation is. Therefore, the joy with which we celebrate our nation's beginning must inform, equally, a sense that our nation's eventual end marks us as part of the human family, which remains America's true glory.

S Butler@Monterey Herald@Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. This guy is a joke. What is sleazy and contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain. 

Theodore Roosevelt@Comment@Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

Noam Chomsky@Interview@It is doubtful that the current attack on civil liberties has much to do with security. In general, one can expect the state to use any pretext to extend its power and to impose obedience on the population; rights are won, not granted, and power will seek any opportunity to reduce them.

John Pilger@The New Rulers of the World@Too many times in history people have waited until it was too late to resist. We draw on the inspiration of those who fought slavery and all those other great causes of freedom that began with dissent. We call on all like-minded people around the world to join us.

Anthony Lewis@Silencing a Palestinian Moderate@Mr. Sharon has made clear that his idea of a "Palestinian state," if he ever agreed to its creation, is very different from the viable state that international negotiators have had in mind. He envisages islands of Palestinian territory, not contiguous, surrounded by Israeli settlements, highways and military units. It would not include any part of Jerusalem.

Amnesty@ International@Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or 'disappeared,' at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame
 
Representative@ Bernie Sanders@ One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush ad ministration and some horrendous court decisions.

Representative@ Bernie Sanders@ One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. 

Northwdsnh@GIVE ME SECURITY, OR GIVE ME ?@I must tell you I am more fearful of the Government's reaction to terrorism, than the terrorism itself. The Patriot Act. TIPS. Labeling Citizens as enemy combatants in order to negate their Rights. History shows us that when a Government grants itself such authority, abuse of this power ALWAYS follows.

Dave Barry@Comedian@If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

Drew Carey@Standup@Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

No Pun@Intended@Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became  known as the lesser of two weevils.

No Pun@Intended@And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

William@Burroughs@It's my feeling that the chaos we see reflects a biological crisis of which very few people are aware that it's there. I mean the end of the line for this species. Remember that all species go so far and then they don't go beyond that. There comes a point where they mutate or die, change or die, and I think that the human species is getting very close to this point. This knowledge which they have, which everybody has of this biological crisis, is reflected in the chaos that we see.

William@Burroughs@Remember that all species go so far and then they don't go beyond that. There comes a point where they mutate or die, change or die, and I think that the human species is getting very close to this point. This knowledge which they have, which everybody has of this biological crisis, is reflected in the chaos that we see.

Stock@Broker@The market may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried.

Kent@ Southard@The Bush family has stolen the presidency, and doesn't mean to give it back. They're seeking to rule the world by controlling its energy supply, enforced with lawless military supremacy. 

Ralph Nader@Corporate Socialism@"Corporate socialism" -- the privatization of profit and the socialization of risks and misconduct -- is displacing capitalist canons. This condition prevents an adaptable capitalism, served by equal justice under law, from delivering higher standards of living and enlarging its absorptive capacity for broader community and environmental values. Civic and political movements must call for a decent separation of corporation and state.

Ralph Nader@Corporate Socialism@When, year after year, the established corporate watchdogs receive their profits or compensation directly or indirectly from the companies they are supposed to be watching, independent judgment fails, corruption increases and conflicts of interest grow among major CEOs and their cliques. 

Krishnamurti@@Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing.

Pablo Casals@Cellist@Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.


Mahatma@Ghandi@When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall—think of it, always!


Osama@ bin Laden@I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and a choking life.

Burt@ Reynolds@My movies were the kind they show in prisons and on aeroplanes, because no-one can leave.

Gore Vidal@Comment @Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Joan@Rivers@I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

Pablo@ Picasso@My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Walter@ Matthau@My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more

Steve@Martin@First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me

Fern@ Naito@When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow

Ilie@ Nastase@I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife."

Patrick@ Moore@At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.

Rita@ Rudner@When I eventually met Mr Right I had no idea that his first name was Always


Groucho@ Marx@I chased a girl for two years only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: We were both crazy about girls.

Rodney@ Dangerfield@Its been a rough day. I got up this morning .... put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom

Rodney@ Dangerfield@I went to see my doctor. Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror... I feel like throwing up; What's wrong with me? He said... I don't know but your eyesight is perfect.

Rodney@ Dangerfield@I remember when I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Shirley @Temple@I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph

Steve@Martin@I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an Arctic region covered with ice.

The Guardian@Editorial Of babies and butchers@Mr Sharon went too far in Gaza on Monday, just as he did with his repellent demolition of lives and homes in Jenin camp last April, just as he did in Beirut back in 1982. In ordering an air strike on a block of flats in a crowded residential area, Israel's unworthy leader acted recklessly and with an irresponsible, callous disregard for the consequences. This, too, was a premeditated butchery of innocents.

Steven M. Greer@COSMIC DECEPTION@War in space, to replace war on Earth, is not evolution, but cosmic madness. A world thus united in fear is worse than one divided by ignorance. It is now time for the great leap into the future, a leap that moves us out of fear and ignorance and into an unbroken era of universal peace.

Paul Walker @Coverup Update@The majority of people have been so brainwashed by this system, that they can scarcely detect a lie, or the absence of truth, even when it is blatantly obvious to those who are still able to question and maintain a healthy skepticism

Charles H. @Fort@Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly

Lao Tzu@Tao Te Ching@Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other: High and low rest upon each other; Voice and sound harmonize each other; Front and back follow one another.

George W. Bush@@Actually, I - this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about - when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

George W. Bush@Meet The Press@I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less, I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people.

President@fool@How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

Dubya Bush@Austin@And so, I hope investors, you know secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

Bush@The Fool@The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, oftentimes, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from.

Bush@The Idiot@You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Steven Greer@Position Paper@I for one have foregone a medical career, and the mundane - if fleetingly gratifying - comforts that life affords, because I came across the at once wonderful and horrible truth that the essential solutions to many of the world's most pressing problems have been systematically and ruthlessly withheld from the public.

Steven Greer@The Unacknowledged Terror@Sciences - wondrous and of immense practical benefit - have been secreted into a nether world of mobbed-up clandestine operations that hide behind national security, God, or whatever contrivance suitable at the moment. But the truth is that this unacknowledged world of UFOs, secret energy and propulsion systems, and global economic hegemony and domination has little to do with security, peace or God, but rather with fear, greed and exploitation. And it is past time for it to end.

Louis T.@ McFadden @The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers 

When the President signs this bill; the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalised. The day of reckoning is only a few years removed.

Charles@ Lindbergh@When the President signs this bill; the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalised. The day of reckoning is only a few years removed.


Orwellian@ World Dictatorship@If you hoodwinked the United States in this fashion, what would you do? You would either give the magical power back to its rightful owner, the US government. Or, you would use it to take over the world, to own everything and to control everyone. Guess which choice the bankers made?

George@Bush@I just, I cannot speak strongly enough about how we must collectively get after those who kill in the name of some kind of false religion

G. K. @Chesterton @"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober"


Socrates@@The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing


Mohandas Karamchand@ Gandhi @When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.

Albert Einstein@The Human Side@It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it

Kent Southard@Commentary@They murmur because George W. Bush has gone too far, and rushes heedlessly farther. His Secretary of State has lost the stomach for the crimes envisioned, and is trying to find an honorable escape. The Bush family has stolen the presidency, and doesn't mean to give it back.


Ronald@ Reagan@ I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. 

Samuel @Adams@It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds


Hitler@@There's no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland."
George W. Bush, August 7, 2002



 George Bernard@ Shaw@Life  is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations


Agatha@ Christie@It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. 


George W.@Bush@It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet

George W.@Bush@Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods



George W.@Bush@There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this web site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is


G.Edward Griffin@The Creature from Jekyll Island@There are those who may say that I am anti-government, but that is not true. I am not anti-government; I am anti-corrupt government. I will do everything possible to defend my government from those who would violate their oaths of office, tear apart the Constitution, or use their positions of trust to oppress our people. To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism

G.Edward@ Griffin@ I will do everything possible to defend my government from those who would violate their oaths of office, tear apart the Constitution, or use their positions of trust to oppress our people. To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism



Ted Rall@GEORGE W. BUSH HATES AMERICA@There are few more sickening sights than George W. Bush wearing a lapel pin bearing an image of the American flag. Bush and his creepy henchmen can wrap themselves in nationalistic symbolism all they want, but these right-wing thugs aren't patriots. They may pledge allegiance to the flag, but they despise the republic for which it stands.


Robert Prichard@surfvariety com@Those who express concern for our hard won civil liberties are told that they are giving comfort to the enemy and aid to terrorists. Dissent is called unpatriotic. I fear we are in great peril of forgetting who we are and what it is our nation stands for.

Hermann Goering@Nuremberg trials@Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Ambassador@George F. Kennan@Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy

Julius@ Caesar@Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.


Richard Sauder@Commentary@Yes, America has become a rogue state, a state that unleashes unprovoked warfare on other peoples and other nations. America has become a threat to the security of planet Earth and to the life and liberty of a growing number of its own citizens.

Sartre@Nausea@Respect for the other person's freedom is an empty word...We are...thrown into the world in the face of the Other. And nothing can change this original situation.


I Love You@Brother@Learn to let go of everything, by all means, because in the end all there is is the consciousness or not. I read I Am That by Nisargadatta a bit each day


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