Mr. Hunt [talking about hate crimes] ostensibly states that the suffering of a member of an aggrieved class is more important than identical suffering that I might encounter because I don’t belong to a particular group he chooses to pity. This is a betrayal of the principles of equal protection the civil rights movement was founded on. Thomas Quilter
Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2003
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The theories – the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislativebodies and with – by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where thecircumstances make that a feasible idea… Al Gore
Giving a straight answer on ABC’s Nightline, after being asked about President Clinton’s withdrawal of Lani Guinier’s nomination to the EEOC.
There must be something wrong with this country when we pay professional athletes six figures, new attorneys working on Wall Street $60000, and we pay teachers what we do. — Janet Reno, early 1990s Lets look at why:1. There is a market for ball players and a partially nationalized market for teachers with little effective competition.2. There are less than 1000 ball players and millions of teachers.3. There is competition for the best in baseball.4. We have unions negotiating teachers salaries, but not attorney salaries.5. Why aren’t movie stars included there? Is it because that is to close to the home of the Reno supporters?What would be the solution she would advocate? A national board to limit athelete salaries? Attorney salaries? Janet Reno
Janet Reno, early 1990s
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Wilson Reagan
address to the Nation (March 23, 1983)
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. John Adams
1798, American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
Those who argued for counterculture values, bigger government…and bureaucracies deciding how you should spend your money were on the losing end in virtually every part of the country. Newt Gingrich
Representative Newt Gingrich, 1994
The great and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and dvine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. U.S. Congress
1854
I voted for the Democrats because I didn’t like the way the Republicans were running the country.which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache. Jack Mayberry
(1993?)
Your [professors] have thrived in that bubble [of college], free to spout pet theories without worrying about their practicality. There’s a reason that Marxism, which has never worked anywhere in the world, still has a core following in academia. Tucker Carlson
Reader’s Digest, June 2004
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)