Here's a set of quips, quotes, comments and critiques to keep in mind while fighting the power (i.e. the GOP, the conservative threat, forces of darkness, right-wing agents of Satan - that kind of power). Use the Feedback Form to submit your own mantra of the day.

(For a complete listing of the verbal incontinence of George W. Bush, visit Jacob Weisberg's "Complete Bushisms") over at Slate.

"I don’t think our campaign is negative in the slightest." John McCain, August 1, 2008.

"We need to drill more, drill now, and pay less at the pump." John McCain, August 1, 2008.

"There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may - and I emphasize may - have come from Iraq." John McCain, October 18, 2001.

"What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" Monica Goodling, interview question for DOJ applicants, reported July 29, 2008.

"The disappointment doesn’t necessarily go to the attorney general." Dana Perino, on President Bush's reaction to the DOJ report on illegal discrimination in hiring by Alberto Gonzales' aide Monica Goodling, July 30, 2008.

"What's interesting, however, is that people are plenty wise about how to conserve. You're making the choices about whether you want to drive a little extra more or not drive extra more." President Bush, July 29, 2008.

"F**king stupid."  David Kilcullen, aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the decision to invade Iraq, July 28, 2008.

"I've met too many times with him. And I know what they want." John McCain, rejecting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a U.S. timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, July 21, 2008.

"I said we would have an easy victory. We did."  John McCain, on the war in Iraq, July 28, 2008.

"No regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences." President Bush, on the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, July 25, 2008.

"There is nothing that’s off the table." John McCain, on the possibility of raising payroll taxes for Social Security, July 28, 2008.

"No new taxes."  John McCain, February 17, 2008.

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk ---that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover." President Bush, reported July 22, 2008.

"If they were to say, leave, we would leave."  President Bush, on a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, May 24, 2007.

"I know how to win wars." John McCain, July 15, 2008.

"Keep up the fight." AP DC bureau chief Ron Fournier to Karl Rove, on the Pat Tillman friendly fire episode, 2004.

"I regret the breezy nature of the correspondence." AP DC bureau chief Ron Fournier regarding his 2004 email to Karl Rove on the Pat Tillman friendly fire episode, July 14, 2008.

"I'm drawing a blank." South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, asked if there "significant economic differences" between John McCain and President Bush, July 13, 2008.

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."  President Bush, to the assembled leaders of the G8, July 10, 2008.

"Amigo, amigo!" President Bush, greeting Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish, July 10, 2008.

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession...We have sort of become a nation of whiners." Phil Gramm, McCain adviser and UBS vice chairman, July 9, 2008.

"I would imagine we are." John McCain, asked if the nation is in recession, July 8, 2008.

"I want Democrats to be back in the majority in Washington and elect a Democratic president in 2008. This man and his supporters will frustrate and defeat our hopes of doing that." Joe Lieberman, current McCain backer on his 2006 opponent Ned Lamont, July 6, 2006.

"I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein." Condoleezza Rice, July 3, 2008.

"It never would have happened in the Republican party. Republicans are much more open to strong women." Bill Kristol, on the claim that Hillary Clinton was the victim of sexism during the Democratic primaries, June 29, 2008.

"John Kerry with a tan." Grover Norquist, on Barack Obama, June 27, 2008.

"I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House." President Bush, to Philippine President Arroyo, June 24, 2008.

"It was special treatment." Scott McClellan, on President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, June 20, 2008.

"Everybody hates George Bush." Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), reported May 25, 2008.

"It's not a timetable; it's victory. It's victory, which I have always predicted. I'm not putting a date on it. It could be next month, it could be next year, it could be three years from now." John McCain, on the U.S. leaving Iraq, May 15, 2008.

"I would hope that we could bring them all home." John McCain, on U.S. troops in Iraq, January 2005.

"As soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be." John McCain, on the U.S. military presence in Iraq, January  2005.

"I'm afraid that the label occupation sticks to us even to this day, although the occupation ended in June of 2004." Paul Wolfowitz, April 28, 2008.

"It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, its nonsense."  John McCain, on endorser Pastor John Hagee's comments about Hurricane Katrina being divine retribution for New Orleans' sins, April 24, 2008.

"Maybe I'm digging for the pony here." John McCain, on his upbeat assessment of the latest fighting in Iraq, April 15, 2008.

"It simply was an aircraft, residue of the aircraft and residue of the materials used to build this building." Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), on his refusal to support federal funds for World Trade Center rescue workers in New York, April 1, 2008.

"I must say, I'm a little envious." President Bush, to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, March 13, 2008.

"I'm just a simple president." President Bush, March 13, 2008.

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf." Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), March 13, 2008.

"I'm under strict instructions, and have been from the beginning, to not talk about the dollar, and I'm not going to get fired to satisfy your question." Dana Perino, March 12, 2008.

"I disagree with what the majority of the American people want." John McCain, March 10, 2008.

"Well, I reject his disavowal." Rep. Steve King (R-IA), on learning that John McCain disavowed his comments that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Obama won, March 9, 2008.

"There's problems in America with safe neighborhoods as we well know." John McCain, on Iraq, March 8, 2008.

"I would say that if Mike McConnell worked for me, I'd fire him."  Retired Lt. Gen. Harry Soyster, on DNI's defense of waterboarding, March 8, 2008.

"He said he was having a hot dog, so I had a hot dog." John McCain, on lunch with President Bush, March 7, 2008.

"It's clear our economy has slowed." President Bush, March 7, 2008.

"I call them evil because if you murder the innocent to achieve a political objective, you're evil." President Bush, March 6, 2008.

"I believe we ought to say thank you." President Bush, on telecom firms that complied with his demands for electronic surveillance of Americans without warrants, March 3, 2008.

"I sort of liken it to a grieving process. You come to acceptance." Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), on his endorsement of John McCain, March 2, 2008.

"It's not like I'm some homophobe." Mike Huckabee, March 1, 2008.

"The truth is that political reconciliation in Iraq is going better there than it is here at home because of better security." Senator Lindsay Graham, February 26, 2008.

"[Democrats would put] a bullet right in the hearts of our troops who are there." Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, on Iraq funding bill, February 26, 2008.

"My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years." John McCain, February 24, 2008.

"I believe 50 years from now, people will look back at this period of time, and say, thank God the United States of America did not lose its faith in the transformative power of liberty." President Bush, on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, February 25, 2008.

"I think that people will look back at the Iraq war and say 'Thank God, he had the courage to do what he did.'" Karl Rove, February 18, 2008.

"U.S. solutions should not be imposed on African leaders." President Bush, February 19, 2008.

"I think history will prove me right." President Bush, on his efforts to rid the world of tyranny, February 19, 2008.

"I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq." Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), February 16, 2008.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." John McCain, reported June 25, 1998.

"White women are a problem[...]But we all live with them." Bill Kristol, February 3, 2008.

"We haven't violated anybody's civil liberties." Vice President Cheney, January 31, 2008.

"The beauty of America is that a person can come and even make a disruption, and you know what, that person is not going to be taken out and shot." Mike Huckabee, January 31, 2008.

"I would feel that it was." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, asked if he could consider waterboarding torture if it were done to him, January 30, 2008.

"I don’t know whether he acted in violation of statutes." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, regarding President Bush and FISA, January 30, 2008.

"As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my life." President Bush, January 29, 2008.

"Yeah, there’s a bubble but life’s pretty comfortable inside the bubble." President Bush, January 28, 2008.

"I didn’t say I wouldn’t answer it. I didn’t say that I would." Attorney General Michael Mukasey, on the question as to whether waterboarding is torture, January 26, 2008.

"He'll be gotten by a president." President Bush, on whether Osama Bin Laden will be captured, January 24, 2008.

"Actually, I don't know where you got that quote from. I'm very well versed in economics." John McCain, asked about his 2005 quote below, January 24, 2008.

"The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." John McCain, December 17, 2007.

"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." John McCain, November 2005.

"Well, I'm not concerned about the voters." Mitt Romney, asked to tell Florida voters ho  much of his own fortune he had spent on his campaign there, January 24, 2008.

"Just because you didn't find every Easter egg didn't mean it wasn’t planted...good chance they may have gone to Jordan. We don’t know where they are." Mike Huckabee, on Iraq WMD, January 24, 2008.

"It's possible. It's entirely possible." Mitt Romney, on whether Iraq WMD's had been moved to Syria, May 7, 2007.

"We think we won’t know that we’ve reached a turning point until we’re six months past it." General David Petraeus, January 22, 2008.

"So what am I supposed to do? Go in the fetal position because of your polls?" President Bush, January 16, 2008.

"What's a Kurd, anyway?" Norman Podhoretz, to Jeffrey Goldberg in 2003, reported January 16, 2008.

"As soon as they put those cameras away, I’m going to flip you the bird." John Boehner (R-OH), to Democrat Steny Hoyer, January 15, 2008.

"I'm sure people view me as a war monger and I view myself as peacemaker." President Bush, January 15, 2008.

"I think that was one evil son of a bitch." Glenn Beck, on FDR, January 15, 2008.

"But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards." Mike Huckabee, January 14, 2008.

"Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture." Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, January 13, 2008.

"Everybody gets it wrong at the beginning of a war." Tony Snow, former Bush White House press secretary, January 11, 2008.

"It could easily be that, absolutely." President Bush, asked if the U.S. presence in Iraq could last another 10 years, January 11, 2008.

"If I were running for office at this point, I'd be saying, 'Vote for me. I’m gonna be an agent of change.'" President Bush, January 11, 2008.

"I don't think Americans are concerned if we’re there for one hundred years or a thousand years or ten thousand years." John McCain, January 6, 2008.

"If I were some of these guys, I'd have to be sitting in a warm tub of water with razor blades." Mike Huckabee, on his GOP rivals, October 10, 2007.

"He [God] told me some things about the election, but I’m not going to say." Pat Robertson, January 3, 2008.

"God's going to give us China. And China will be the largest Christian nation on the face of the earth. They’re going to come to Jesus." Pat Robertson, January 3, 2008.

"We also love a president who has kept us safe these last six years." Mitt Romney, January 3, 2008.

"President Bush didn't read it for four years; I don't know why I should read it in four hours." Mike Huckabee on his ignorance of the Iran NIE, December 31, 2007.

"I don't know that you'd put him in prison." Mike Huckabee, on punishing doctors who perform abortions, December 30, 2007.

"We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country." Mike Huckabee, December 28, 2007.

"We need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people [Muslims] 'til we defeat them or chase them back to their caves, or in other words, get rid of them."  John Deady, Co-Chair for New Hampshire’s Veterans for Rudy, December 28, 2007.

"This is what happens…You vote for me, you live. You don’t…there you go." Mike Huckabee, on shooting pheasant during recent hunting trip, December 27, 2007.

"I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city [DC] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."  Ron Paul, from 1992 article, reported December 26, 2007.

"He voted against the Bush tax cuts. That's failing 'Reagan-101.'" Mitt Romney, attacking John McCain, December 22, 2007.

"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Mitt Romney, during run for U.S. Senate, 1994.

"The inmates there were getting a whole lot better treatment than my prisoners in Arkansas...If anything, it’s too nice." Mike Huckabee, on Guantanamo, December 21, 2007.

"It's what I do during my presidency. I go around spreading good will." President Bush, December 20, 2007.

"There's not much that entices about the job. There's no money in it, no privacy, no big houses, and from an ego standpoint, it does nothing for me." Justice Clarence Thomas, December 18, 2007.

"It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, 'when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." GOP Candidate Ron Paul, on opponent Mike Huckabee using the image of a cross in a TV ad, December 18, 2007.

"We have fabulous health care in America, just so you know." President Bush, December 17, 2007.

"Keep it up. We need you guys." President Bush, to WMAL General Manager Chris Berry, whose station features such conservative hosts as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, December 13, 2007.

"I don’t care what this latest NIE says." Fred Thompson, December 12, 2007.

"There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke." Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), December 12, 2007.

"It will be interesting to know what the true facts are." President Bush, on the  CIA tapes case, December 11, 2007.

"I doubt I'd be standing here if I hadn't quit drinking whiskey, and beer and wine and all that." President Bush, December 11, 2007.

"It'll be interesting to know what the true facts are." President Bush, on the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation videotapes, December 11, 2007.

"'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?" Dana Perino, White House press secretary on the Cuban missile crisis, December 8, 2007.

"Once a Bushie, always a Bushie." Dana Perino, December 9. 2007.

"People were saying, 'It was like George Washington,' 'It was the Gettysburg Address." Ann Romney, on her husband's speech on Faith in America, December 6, 2007.

"OK, look. I can see where you could see that the president could have been more precise in that language. But the president was being truthful." Dana Perino, on President Bush's assertion he learned about the new Iran NIE the previous week, December 6, 2007.

"No." Mike Huckabee, asked if he had heard of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, December 4, 2007.

"It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career." Rudy Giuliani, December 4, 2007.

"Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers." Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on casualties in Iraq, November 28, 2007.

"Suddenly I seem to be in the cross hairs of every predator who is out there.  To me that seems to be a good sign of life." Mike Huckabee, trying to deflect questions about his role in the parole of convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who later raped and murdered another woman, October 31, 2007.

"No - I’ve never - nobody ever told me that."  President Bush, asked if his intelligence advisors asked him to tone down his World War III rhetoric towards Iran after seeing the new NIE, December 4, 2007.

"It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career." Rudy Giuliani, December 4, 2007.

"No one is perfect." Alberto Gonzales, November 19, 2007.

"Mr. President, you are such a man." Frances Townsend, comparing President Bush to George Washington, in her resignation letter, November 19, 2007.

"In our opinion, no."  Dana Perino, White House press secretary, asked if it is ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism, November 5, 2007.

"Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed." Donald Rumsfeld, from May 2004 memo, reported November 1, 2007.

"That's one way to ensure that I am relevant." President Bush, explaining his veto of S-CHIP, October 17, 2007.

"I gave my blood for the Republican Party in New York." Rudy Giuliani, October 16, 2007.

"I hate all Iranians." Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates, to visiting British MPs, reported September 29, 2007.

"I remind people that, like when I’m with, Condi, I say she’s the Ph.D. and I’m the C student and just look at who’s the president and who’s the adviser."  President Bush, September 20, 2007.

"I don't know." Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asked if invading Iraq was a good idea, September 19, 2007.

"The cockiest guy I have ever met in my life." Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, on George W. Bush, September 17, 2007.

"One, I’m too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me." President Bush, on serving in Iraq, September 14, 2007.

"I learned early on that if you don’t want your memos to get you in trouble some day, just don’t write any." Vice President Cheney, September 14, 2007.

"Sir, I don't know, actually." General David Petraeus, asked by Sen. John Warner if the strategy in Iraq is making America safer, September 11, 2007.

"It has not worked out as we had hoped." General David Petraeus, on political progress in Iraq, September 7, 2007.

"There are some people who might try to deride this trip as a photo opportunity." Dana Perino, on President Bush's trip to Iraq, September 3, 2007.

"This is news to me." Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on President Bush's $50 billion Iraq funding request, August 29, 2007.

"The fact that we're doing it this [discussing NSA domestic surveillance] way means that some Americans are going to die." Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, August 22, 2007.

"No, I can't. I can barely speak English." President Bush, asked if he can speak French, August 11, 2007.

"Mr. Attorney General, do you expect us to believe that?" Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, July 24, 2007.

"He's a good man, we're gonna get him some new legs." President Bush, discussing an Iraq veteran and amputee, July 20, 2007.

"I'm pleased to say that I am not an expert in prostitution law." Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), asked about her GOP colleague David Vitter, July 17, 2007.

"I don't believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own." Governor George W. Bush, 1999.

"Now is not the time to go in the fetal position and whine." Karl Rove, to audience at Marquette County Republicans Reagan Dinner, June 23, 2007.

"If it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo - not tomorrow, this afternoon." Colin Powell, June 10, 2007.

"I think some people see Guantanamo as a source of America's arrogance, and I see it as a source of America's resolve." Mitt Romney, June 5, 2007.

"Does it solve the problem for the woman that's been raped?" Sam Brownback (R-KS), on his opposition to abortion for rape victims, June 9, 2007.

"Homosexuality isn't natural or healthy." Dr. James Holsinger Jr., Bush nominee for Surgeon General, in 1991 paper, reported June 7, 2007.

"I'm sorry it's come to be, but that's what happens in life. We'll move on." President Bush, on the resignation of Tony Blair, June 7, 2007.

"Sir, that's the design." Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, on National security Adviser Stephen Hadley having no role with regards to Iraq and Afghanistan, June 7, 2007.

"I don’t believe it undercuts their morale. and, in fact, that’s what we’ve sworn to protect and defend." Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, on domestic debate over Iraq war strategy and funding, June 7, 2007.

"During the review, I registered concerns that a military 'surge' would likely have only temporary and localized effects unless it were accompanied by counterpart 'surges' by the Iraqi government and the other, nonmilitary agencies of the U.S. government."  Proposed U.S. Iraq War Czar General  Douglas Lute, June 7, 2007.

"What is taking place in Anbar is almost breathtaking." General David Petraeus, on progress in Iraq, June 8, 2007.

"We haven’t started the surge - the full surge - yet. So let me have a few months." General David Petraeus, June 5, 2007.

"We're only about two months into the surge." General David Petraeus, April 25, 2007.

"I don’t see an end game, as it were, in sight." U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, June 6, 2007.

"CIA clearly didn't really give a shit about keeping her identity secret if she's going to work at f**king Langley...I call bullshit on that, I don't care what they say." MSNBC host and son of Scooter Libby Defense Fund adviser Tucker Carlson, on outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's confirmed covert status, June 6, 2007.

"For [Libby prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald, to get on his high horse, it’s disgusting and he should be ashamed of himself." Richard Carlson, Scooter Libby Defense Fund adviser and father of MSNBC host Tucker Carlson, May 29, 2007.

"Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man." Vice President Cheney, on the sentencing of Scooter Libby, June 5, 2007.

"Well, it's a setting that's almost a null set. Which is, if we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, and if he had complied with the United Nations resolutions to allow IAEA inspectors into his country, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Mitt Romney, asked by Sean Hannity if he would have supported war in Iraq knowing what he knows now, May 8, 2007

"Well, the question is kind of a non sequitur, if you will. And what I mean by that -- or a null set -- and that is that if you're saying, let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opened up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction...we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in." Mitt Romney, asked by Wolf Blitzer if he would have supported war in Iraq knowing what he knows now, June 5, 2007.

"Strong, clear, gives good soundbite and has shoulders you could land a 737 on." Roger Simon of Politico.com on Mitt Romney, June 5, 2007.

"I would certainly not send him to the United Nations." Tommy Thompson, asked what role George W. Bush would play in a Thompson administration, June 5, 2007.

"I'd tell George W. Bush never to darken the door of the White House." Rep, Tom Tancredo, asked what role George W. Bush would play in a Tancredo administration, June 5, 2007.

"Mr. Comey's testimony related to a highly classified program which the president confirmed to the American people sometime ago." Alberto Gonzales, on revelations by Comey on March 2004 confrontation with Gonzales at John Ashcroft's bedside, June 5, 2007.

"There has not been any serious disagreement about the program that the president has confirmed." Alberto Gonzales, February 6, 2006.

"The worst terrorist we had in Iraq was a guy named Abu Musab al Zarqawi." Vice President Cheney, claiming Saddam harbored the terrorist the Senate Intelligence Committee report conclusively showed Hussein was trying to capture, June 4, 2007.

"I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There's a big difference. Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time." Tom Delay, on the difference between his adultery and that of Newt Gingrich, June 4, 2007.

"God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party." Tom Delay, June 4, 2007.

"Well, the whitest man in America, who is the black man’s best friend, is now being alleged to be a racist for having invented something called ooga booga fever." Fox's John Gibson, describing himself, June 4, 2007.

"It sounds like Abu Ghraib." Fox Morning show host Greg Kelly, on Paris Hilton not being allowed to use her cell phone while it jail, June 4, 2007.

"Russia is not our enemy." President Bush, to Russian President Vladimir Putin at G8 Summit, June 4, 2007.

"It would be funny if it was not so sad." Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Bush's proposed missile defense system in Czech Republic and Poland, June 4, 2007.

"I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul. I knew that President Putin was a man with whom I could work." President Bush, on Vladimir Putin, November 15, 2001.

"John Glenn - who was a wonderful man, but not somebody normally you would think capable of being a real partisan spearchucker." Brit Hume, June 3, 2007.

"Lots of things." Fred Thompson, likely GOP White House contender asked by NBC's Tim Russert what he'd do as President, June 3, 2007.

"No." Fred Thompson, likely GOP White House contender asked by NBC's Tim Russert if he would elaborate on what those "lots of things" would be, June 3, 2007.

"The government is not functioning. It’s not getting the job done. Republicans need to confront this reality." Newt Gingrich, on the Bush administration, June 3, 2007.

"If the charges against Congressman Jefferson are true, he should be expelled from the House of Representatives, or he should resign to spare his constituents and colleagues any further indignity." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on whether indicted Democratic Congressman William Jefferson should resign, June 4, 2006.

"That's a decision that he and his family are going to have to make." House Minority Leader John Boehner, asked by Fox's Chris Wallace if indicted Republican Congressman Bob Ney should resign, September 17, 2006.

"The country owes Tom a great debt of gratitude for helping lead America in a new direction...He has served our nation with integrity and honor, and I'm honored to call him my colleague and friend." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on indicted Republican Congressman Tom Delay, April 3, 2006.

"I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly." Dennis Milligan, chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, June 3, 2007.

"You think she thinks she works the pole?" MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, on Fred Thompson's supposed "trophy wife," June 2, 2007.

"I intend to spend the next year and a half in a sprint to the finish line." Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, facing imminent no-confidence vote, June 1, 2007.

"I think we've had a very great week this week." White House spokesperson Dana Perino, June 1, 2007.

"Well, there's too many to count now." Outgoing White House communications director Dan Bartlett, asked what mistakes the White House would like to "do over," June 1, 2007.

"I am the president!" President Bush, while thumping his chest, reported May 31, 2007.

"He’s got the jaw going on, the little gray thing in there. And I think that means a lot in America." Bill O'Reilly, May 31, 2007.

"The Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this homosexual game of 'house.'" Stephen Bennett, spokesman for Concerned Women for America, on the birth of Mary Cheney's son, May 30, 2007.

"I'm not an architect of anything." Paul Wolfowitz, former Iraq war architect at the Pentagon, May 30, 2007.

"I'm deeply concerned about America losing its soul...if we don't solve the problem it's going to affect America. It will affect our economy and it will affect our soul." President Bush, on importance of his immigration bill, May 29, 2007.

"Disagreeing with your government is not unpatriotic and most certainly should not be a crime in any country, especially a democracy." Condi Rice, May 28, 2007.

"I think he's crazy." Ronald Reagan, on Rudy Giuliani, reported May 28, 2007.

"I recognize there are a handful there, or some, who just say, 'Get out, you know, it's just not worth it. Let's just leave.' I strongly disagree with that attitude. Most Americans do as well." President Bush, contradicting polls showing that 63% of Americans want to withdraw from Iraq by 2008, May 28, 2007.

"I told my press secretary when she was asked that...just better play it close to our vest. So, I guess I won’t answer your question." Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), asked whether he still supports Alberto Gonzales, May 27, 2007.

"By September, when General Petraeus is to make a report, I think most of the people in Congress believe, unless something extraordinary occurs, that we should be on a move to draw those surge numbers down." Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), May 27, 2007.

"The handwriting is on the wall. We are headed in a different direction, in the fall, in Iraq. And the president is going to be the one to lead the way." Mitch McConnell (R-KY), May 26, 2007.

"Oh my God, is that right?...It’s a nice day, the weather's nice." John McCain, on missing the equivalent of six weeks worth of Senate votes while campaigning, May 26, 2007.

"Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"Nobody can promise us we won't be hit again." Vice President Cheney, May 26, 2007.

"If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again." Vice President Cheney, on why Americans should vote for George W. Bush and not John Kerry, September 7, 2004.

"This investigation is taking a long time, kind of being drug out, I suspect...for political reasons." President Bush, on U.S. attorneys purge inquiries, May 25, 2007.

"If there's wrongdoing, it will be taken care of." President Bush, on U.S. attorneys purge, May 24, 2007.

"It's their government's choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave." President Bush, on Iraq,  May 24, 2007.

"We’re not leaving [Iraq] so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake." President Bush, on Iraq, August 21, 2006.

"They are a threat to your children, David." President Bush, on the enemy in Iraq, to NBC's David Gregory, May 24 2007.

"This notion about how this isn’t a war on terror in my view is naive." President Bush, May 23, 2007.

"We actually misnamed the war on terror." President Bush, August 16, 2004.

"After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on?" House Minority Leader John Boehner, on Iraq war funding, May 24, 2007.

"I want more babies. More babies. We love babies." Leslie Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, speaking out against a new contraceptive, May 24, 2007.

"I promised the President today that I wouldn't say anything bad about...this piece of shit bill." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on the immigration bill, May 23, 2007.

"It is a very careful process, and not one that's used indiscriminately or just for political purposes." Trent Lott (R-MS), on President Bush's declassification of two-year old classified report days before war funding vote hoping to show Al Qaeda role in Iraq, May 23, 2007.

"The statements made by the attorney general during this meeting were intended only to comfort her in a very difficult period." DOJ spokesman Brian Roehrkrasse, on whether Alberto Gonzales tried to influence the testimony of Monica Goodling during a meet with her, May 23, 2007.

"There not only is no evidence of wrongdoing, but there is no allegation of any wrongdoing on your part." Rep. Steve King (R-IA), to Monica Goodling, during House hearing in which she admitted violating the Hatch Act, May 23, 2007.

"I believe I crossed the line, but I didn’t mean to." Monica Goodling, May 23, 2007.

"I don't think that I could have done it more than 50 times, but I don't know." Monica Goodling, asked how often she considered political affiliations in hiring of career DOJ personnel, May 23, 2007.

"I stand by Al Gonzales." President Bush, May 21, 2007.

"I don’t know if they're going to do a reprinting of the book to try to get the facts straight." Tony Snow, on Al Gore's book correctly identifying President Bush's deceptions in the run-up to the war in Iraq, May 23, 2007.

"I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave." Howard Zinsmeister, Bush domestic policy adviser, May 21, 2007.

"Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn." John McCain, on Mitt Romney's immigration stand, May 21, 2007.

"I do not believe in teaching about sex or contraception in public schools." Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR), May 21, 2007.

"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America has gone with them fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this were created." Newt Gingrich, delivering commencement address at the late Falwell's Liberty University, May 19, 2007.

"Iraq has not been a big thing in our district." Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), May 19, 2007.

"I'd rather trade places with Jose Padilla." Viet Dinh, ormer senior Justice official under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, about replacing Paul McNulty as Alberto Gonzales' deputy attorney general, May 19, 2007.

"I don’t have confidence in Gonzales." Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), May 18, 2007.

"The president might decide that the current leadership remaining at DOJ is doing more harm than good." Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), May 18, 2007.

"If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!" Bill Keller, host of the Florida-based Live Prayer TV, May 11, 2007.

"I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008.  My conscience and my moral convictions will allow me to do nothing else." James Dobson, May 18, 2007.

"As conservative Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have probably irreconcilable differences on life and family and that kind of thing...I couldn't support him for president." Jerry Falwell, on Rudy Giuliani, April 17, 2006.

"Falwell was a perfected Christian. He exuded Christian love for all men." Ann Coulter, May 16, 2007.

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen." Jerry Falwell, September 13, 2001.

"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." John McCain, speaking to fellow Republican Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) about immigration bill, May 17, 2007.

"Could be." President Bush, on whether he is responsible for Tony Blair's downfall, May 17, 2007.

"The president’s proposal provides a good quality of life for service members and their families." White House statement of President Bush rejection of 3.5% pay increase for U.S. military servicemen and women, May 16, 2007.

"I haven't changed my position in even-numbered years or ... because of the different offices that I may be running for." John McCain, regarding Mitt Romney, May 16, 2007.

"Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." John McCain, on Jerry Falwell, February 28, 2000.

"I join the students, faculty, and staff of Liberty University and Americans of all faiths in mourning the loss of Reverend Jerry Falwell.  Dr. Falwell was a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country." John McCain, May 16, 2007.

"We're not hostile to the administration. We just want it to be over." Unnamed Republican Congressman, to Robert Novak, May 16, 2007.

"You have to undercut the perception of occupation in Iraq. It's very difficult to do that when you have 150,000-plus, largely western, foreign troops occupying the country." Bush "War Czar" Lt. General Douglas Lute, August 24, 2005.

"Well, people know we're still in Germany and in South Korea." Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), asked whether the American people will support U.S. troops remaining in Iraq for 10 more years, May 16, 2007.

"No one knows how to define progress in such a mixed-up situation.  We’re having trouble measuring it. Imagine building a house without a ruler. It would be like the Dow Jones. Nobody accuses the Dow Jones of being biased. It would be good information for all of us. And then you could say who’s winning and losing." Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), on creating benchmarks for Iraq, May 13, 2007.

"Being able to go and having a very candid conversation and telling the president: 'Mr. President, this cannot be done. You can't do this,' - I think you want that." Alberto Gonzales, May 19, 2007.

"No." Alberto Gonzales, asked to share an example of a time he told President Bush "you can't do this," May 19, 2007.

"I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man." James Comey, on then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales' browbeating the hospitalized John Ashcroft on March 10, 2004 to approve illegal NSA domestic spying,  May 16, 2007.

"There’s a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn’t happen. I’m not going to talk about it." President Bush, asked if he sent Gonzales to coerce the bed-ridden John Ashcroft in 2004, May 17, 2007.

"Trying to take advantage of a sick man. Because he had an appendectomy, his brain didn’t work?" Tony Snow, on Comey's assertion that Alberto Gonzales tried to coerce John Ashcroft, then bed-ridden with a pancreatic condition following gall bladder surgery, May 16, 2007.

"I wouldn't characterize those as top aides." Alberto Gonzales, regarding chief-of-staff Kyle Sampson and White House liaison Monica Goodling, May 15, 2007.

"At the end of the day, the recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names." Alberto Gonzales, following the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, May 15, 2007.

"The one person I would care about would be the views of the deputy attorney general, because the deputy attorney general is the direct supervisor of the United States attorneys." Alberto Gonzales, following the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, May 15, 2007.

"Looking back, things that I would have done differently? I think I would have had the deputy attorney general more involved, directly involved." Alberto Gonzales, testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee, April 19, 2007.

"I'm looking for Jack Bauer." Tom Tancredo (R-CO), supporting waterboarding and other detainee interrogation techniques, May 15, 2007.

"I would say every method they could think of." Rudy Giuliani, supporting waterboarding and other detainee interrogation techniques, May 15, 2007.

"My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo." Mitt Romney, May 15, 2007.

"Here in the womb is a child that we’re talking about doing this to." Senator Sam Brownback, pointing to his abdomen, May 15, 2007.

"If they f**k with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to f**k them, too". Paul Wolfowitz, on his opponents at the World Bank, May 15, 2007.

"He could come back without arms, legs or eyeballs, and you're (whining)?  You’re not dodging bullets, so I don’t want to hear any whining." Laura Schlesinger, speaking to military wives, May 14, 2007.

"We’ve told people they can air those trailers out." FEMA Director David Paulison, on high levels of formaldehyde in FEMA trailers used by Katrina victims, May 16, 2007.

"We tend to not deal with them very often.  We have our own mission, and we do our own thing." Paul Brinkley, undersecretary of defense, on working with the State Department officials at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, May 14, 2007.

"If they vote to ask us to leave, we'll be glad to comply." Senator Mitch McConnell, on the Iraqi government, May 13, 2007.

"As far as the Iraqi parliament is concerned, the Iraqi government obviously doesn't feel that way." John McCain, on the majority vote of the Iraqi parliament calling for the U.S. to withdraw, May 13, 2007.

"I had an armed escort because, because that's what General Petraeus thought we ought to have.—I didn't call for the kind of, quote, protection that was around me.  I'll be glad to go back to that market...with or without military protection and humvees, etc." John McCain, on repeating his April trip to a Baghdad market, May 13, 2007.

"I am not happy with the Republican Party today." Chuck Hagel (R-NE), May 13, 2007.

"This is fundamental blocking and tackling. This is your line in football. If you don't have a line, how many passes can Peyton Manning complete? Greatest quarterback, maybe, in NFL history." Sam Brownback, speaking about families in Wisconsin, home of Green Bay Packers and legendary quarterback Brett Favre, May 12, 2007.

"He's no more racist than any white male." Rice University professor Bob Stein, on Ted Poe (R-TX) who approvingly quoted Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest, May 12, 2007.

"Let's don't declare this war lost because you're telling all these soldiers and Petraeus that they're losers." Lindsay Graham (R-SC), to Senator Barbara Boxer, May 13, 2007.

"Keep your mouth shut." Governor Sonny Perdue (R-GA), to Iraq war critics, May 11, 2007.

"Obviously, the President bears the major part of the burden." Vice President Cheney, asked if he considered himself a "cold-blooded warmonger" who doesn't care about U.S. war casualties, May 10, 2007.

"You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors or Dick Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance." Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former aide to Colin Powell, May 10, 2007.

"Let other federal agencies, as more than a dozen already do, cover the 'bugs and bunnies.' But let our spies be spies." Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), regarding CIA analysis of impact of global warming, May 10, 2007.

"People are now asking, if you're a good U.S. attorney, why aren't you getting fired?" Fired Seattle U.S. prosecutor John McKay, May 9, 2007.

"[Y]ou’re asking me a question I hadn’t really thought about." Alberto Gonzales, asked if any U.S. citizens were being denied their habeas corpus rights, May 10, 2007.

"There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution." Alberto Gonzales, January 19, 2007.

"I think I may be aware of that." Alberto Gonzales, May 10, 2007.

"My feelings and recollections about this matter have not changed." Alberto Gonzales, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on his purge of U.S. prosecutors, May 10, 2007.

"The list of accusations has mushroomed, but the evidence of wrongdoing has not.  We should not conduct an endless piscine expedition." Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), on Gonzales' U.S. attorneys scandal, May 10, 2007.

"I only thought it was the radical left in our own nation which enjoys likening the United States to Nazi Germany." Tom Delay, May 10, 2007.

"Liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler." Tom Delay, March 26, 2007.

"I think he was a little - I don’t know if surprised is the right word, probably maybe sobered." Rep, Ray Lahood (R-IL), on meeting of 11 GOP lawmakers with President Bush on Iraq, May 10, 2007.

"My mission is to -- today, though, is to lift people's spirits as best as I possibly can and to hopefully touch somebody's soul." President Bush, on visiting tornado victims in Kansas, May 9, 2007.

"Then we kick the press out." Vice President Cheney, overheard by reporters as he addressed his staffers in Iraq, May 9, 2007.

"This is just a photo spray." Vice President Cheney, meeting with reporters in Iraq, May 9, 2007.

"I work for the White House, you work for the White House." Alberto Gonzales, in a speech to U.S. attorney John McKay and all other 92 U.S. attorneys, early 2005.

"I'm not going to speculate or comment."  FBI director Robert Mueller, on whether Alberto Gonzales  should step down, May 9, 2007.

"I think the GOP was dissolving. Now it's drying up and the wind's going to blow it away. I just don't think we have the depth of knowledge, intellect, and experience necessary for a viable political party any more." Rep. Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD), May 8, 2007.

"Every time I go over there the improvements in the conditions are truly amazing." Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), on progress in Iraq, May 8, 2007.

"Git thar fustest with the mostest." Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), quoting Confederate terrorist and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest to support his position on Iraq war funding, May 8, 2007.

"The Iraqis need to know that we are not looking to leave Iraq." Secretary of State Condi Rice, May 7, 2007.<