Les Pages Aux Folles: No Comment Quotes…With…Uhh…Comments
No Comment Quotes…With…Uhh…Comments
Recent posts on the No Comment Quotes Web site (as pulled from the Daily Me Web site):
Or, It Could Have Been The Gunfire And Exploding Mortar Shells – Difficult To Say, Really…
“The soldiers on the base – there’s probably a few of them who didn’t sleep last night in anticipation of getting to play against some of their heroes.”
- Defence Minister Elmer MacKay, talking about visiting Canadian troops in Afghanistan with the Stanley Cup and three former NHL stars
When President McCain Says He Has No Quarrel With The Canadian People, I’m Running For The Nearest Bomb Shelter!
“We have no quarrel with the German people.”
- Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917
“The attacks were concentrated and carefully targeted to minimize casualties among the Libyan people, with whom we have no quarrel.”
- Ronald Reagan, April 14, 1986
“Let there be no misunderstanding: we have no quarrel with the people of Iraq.”
- George H. W. Bush, September 17, 1990
“We don’t quarrel with the innocent folks of Afghanistan.”
- George W. Bush, October 17, 2001
You Know, What Eliot Spitzer Was Eating When He Was Cheating On His Wife Is Really None Of My Business. Really
“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he's very susceptible… The cheating was his decision to repair what is damaged and to feed himself where he is starving.”
- Dr. Laura Schlesinger on the whole Eliot Spitzer schemozzle
It’s Not A Provocation, It’s More A Provolone Masquerading As A Fire Extinguisher
“It’s not a provocation, it is a tough reality – a reality that some Muslims might not find comfortable.”
- anti-immigrant Geert Wilders, member of the Netherlands’ far right Party for Freedom, explaining why he posted on the Internet a graphic film depicting Islam as a religion of violence
It Was Tough, But He Sacrificed Empathy And Compassion A Long Time Ago
“Well, you know, I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see terrible images of violence on TV every night. I mean, we’ve got a fantastic economy here in the United States, but, yet, when you think about the psychology of the country, it is somewhat down because of the war.”
- George W. Bush answering the question: “Why have you not, as president of the United States, asked more Americans and American interests to sacrifice something?”
Silvio Berlusconi, Career Councillor
“You should perhaps look to marry a millionaire, like my son, or someone who doesn’t have such problems. With that smile of yours, you could even get away with it.”
- Italian conservative leader and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s advice to a student who complained to him of financial difficulties
And Bought The Wrong Substance From The Wrong Policewoman…
“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
- Austin Cooper, lawyer for hedge fund manager Matthew MacIsaac, explaining why his client was innocent of allegations that he bought cocaine
But, You Keep Telling Yourself That If It Helps You Sleep At Night, Conventional Wisdomers
“Back in 2003, only the most prescient could have guessed that … the toll would include tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, as well as nearly 4,000 American troops.”
- John Burns expresses the current conventional wisdom in the New York Times
“[B]ecause most of the 13 million Iraqi children are dependent on food distributed by the Government of Iraq, the disruption of this system by war would have a devastating impact on children who already have a high rate of malnutrition… [War on Iraq would cause a] grave humanitarian disaster [with potential casualties among children in] the tens of thousands, and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.”
- Canadian NGO International Study Team in a 2003 report
“[E]ven a successful war against Iraq [would] require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.”
- Barack Obama in a 2002 speech
“What are you gonna put in [Saddam Hussein’s government’s] place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government in Iraq, you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off... it's a quagmire ... if you try to take over Iraq... How many additional American causalities was Saddam worth? Our judgment was not very many, and I think we got it right."
- Dick Cheney, circa 1994
