Who spoke these words?
"It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations."
First to get the answer claims all the bragging rights.
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Well done! I thought it would take more time. I found the quote in this article:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/new-obl-tape-ir.html
posted by AirTrainer on Sep 08, 2007 at 09:04:50 am #
here's one for you...bragging rights to the first correct answer:
"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 08, 2007 at 09:54:02 am #
He like totally read off this girls poster and she totally forget to give a nod to Fulghum. Breech.
Osama's been dead for over a year. Someone else wrote that crap.
posted by AmericanPie on Sep 08, 2007 at 10:19:41 am #
"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
That would be Republican (!) Presidential Hopeful Rudy Guiliani.
posted by TheTalentedMrC on Sep 08, 2007 at 01:16:29 pm #
The Talented Mr C earns his nickname!
as for his party affiliation - well, all I can say is: sad - very sad...
posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 08, 2007 at 03:42:29 pm #
>>...Freedom is about authority...>>
Guilliani has no discernable political foundation that I can see. He made a good mayor cleaning up crime and knows how to work a metropolitan disaster. Maybe he'd make a good secretary of defense. But I personally have no interest in him being my president.
As far as the original quote, thanks for clarifying Historymike - I thought it was from one of the liberal Toledo Talkers. You certainly can't tell much difference :)
I will NEVER understand all the kudos Rudy got for his actions after 9/11. Who would have done anything differently? Did he really go above and beyond or just show up to the right events? He does nothing for me....or my cousins.
Ok, this is fun!!
Who said this:
"too buoyant to be full of water"
There were also doubts about the way Kopechne died. Dr. Donald Mills of Edgartown, wrote on the death certificate: "death by drowning". However, Gene Frieh, the undertaker, told reporters that death "was due to suffocation rather than drowning". John Farrar, the diver who removed Kopechne from the car, claimed she was "too buoyant to be full of water". It is assumed that she died from drowning, although her parents filed a petition preventing an autopsy.
The woman being discussed in the prior paragraph is Mary Jo Kopechne, victim of Ted Kennedy.
posted by AirTrainer on Sep 09, 2007 at 08:41:32 am #
My turn:
"If losing doesn't make you hurt, you shouldn't be at Michigan."
posted by TheTalentedMrC on Sep 09, 2007 at 09:12:20 am #
Coach Carr. Poor guy.
Who said: "You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if it be so, why not now - and where you stand?"
posted by katie82640 on Sep 09, 2007 at 02:58:08 pm #
Katie - Robert Louis Stevenson???
what do I win???
posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 10, 2007 at 08:02:28 am #
Rudy attended 911. And turned it into his personal TV studio backdrop.
He's got my slight.
If you can answer this without google or bowling shoes on, I'd be impressed.
Who is this attributed to?"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Actually, I know that one as I had it on my desk for a while...Kirkegaard
posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 10, 2007 at 12:53:20 pm #
Here are some of my favorites from one person, can you guess?
- All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
Maggie wins a silver star :-)
Sir Winston!!!!
Who said this? "Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage" ?
posted by katie82640 on Sep 10, 2007 at 01:53:49 pm #
sounds like something Steven Wright would say...
:)
posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 11, 2007 at 11:23:10 am #
google is your friend.
posted by jhostetler on Sep 11, 2007 at 12:19:27 pm #
Ambrose Bierce
posted by jhostetler on Sep 11, 2007 at 12:19:52 pm #
here is one of my favorites...
Any man who is under 30 and is not a Liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and not a Conservative has no brains.
KraZyKat, that is one of my favorites too. It is Winston Churchill.
...and I didn't use Google :)
Here's another good one. Who said
"I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world."
posted by AirTrainer on Sep 20, 2007 at 10:30:19 am #
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Osama bin Laden, in his latest rabid rant to the American people. It also looks like he discovered the facial hair product "Just for Men," as his beard looks darker than it has since the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion.
posted by historymike on Sep 08, 2007 at 08:53:41 am #