Top Ten Quotes 2008

[Lunar]

For sources:
http://www.extrememortman.com/funniest-2008/top-ten-funniest-political-quotes-of-2008/


10. Mike Huckabee, on what squirrel tastes like:

“It tastes like squirrel.”

9. John Edwards on cheating on Elizabeth Edwards:

“Can I explain to you what happened? First of all it happened during a period after she was in remission from cancer.”

8. Nancy Pelosi:

“I have always loved longitude. I love latitude; it’s in the stars. But longitude, it’s about time. … Time and clocks and all the rest of that have always been a fascination for me.”

7. President Bush, meeting with President Arroyo of the Philippines:

“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.”

6. Barack Obama:

“Can you imagine if you had your Social Security invested in the stock market these last two weeks? These last two months? You wouldn’t need Social Security. You’d be having a – you know like, what was it. ‘Sanford and Son,’ ‘I’m coming Weezie.’ It ain’t right.”

5. A tie …

Joe Biden, at an Ocala, FL, ice cream shop:

“Look at this! Man, this is a dangerous place. Holy mackerel! I’m an ice cream guy. Is ice cream down that way? Could I get a sugar cone and chocolate chip? … I’m getting plain old chocolate chip. That’s plenty, God love ya.”

And Joe Biden, hearing testimony from Gen. David Petraeus:

PETRAEUS: Senator, the vice president was in Iraq just a couple weeks after that, and he also had a very warm reception.
BIDEN: Did he get kissed? Get a kiss?
PETRAEUS: I believe he did get kissed when he was there.
BIDEN: I just want to know whether he got kissed, that’s all.

4. John McCain:

“We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.”

3. Sarah Palin, being interviewed by Katie Couric:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.

COURIC: What, specifically?
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.

2. Chris Matthews:

“It’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”

1. Bill Clinton:

“The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.”

[Four49]

“We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that 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.”

-Rudy Giuliani

[Four49]

Well, that hurts my feelings. - Hillary

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. - Huckabee

I watched with the volume all the way down. I thought it was hilarious. I thought she was spot on. ... It was hilarious. Again, didn't hear a word she said, but the visual, spot on.
- Palin

I've now been in 57 states - I think one left to. - Obama

[Jacobtm]

"Dennis, the thing I like best about you is your wife."
-Joe Biden

[Lief 🗽]

Mike Gravel: "Who the hell are we gonna nuke? (at Obama) Tell me Barack. Barack, who are you gonna nuke?"
Barack Obama: "I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise."
Mike Gravel: "Good. We're safe for a while."

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

“We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that 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.”

-Rudy Giuliani

That man is terrifying.

[Lief 🗽]

“We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that 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.”

-Rudy Giuliani

That man is terrifying.

Yeah. It's funny when people say he has liberal social policies; he's a borderline fascist.

[Sensei]

Mike Gravel: "Who the hell are we gonna nuke? (at Obama) Tell me Barack. Barack, who are you gonna nuke?"
Barack Obama: "I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise."
Mike Gravel: "Good. We're safe for a while."

Gravel won my vote with this

[Хahar 🤔]

I came in expecting to see 10 quotes, and I found 11. I am deeply disappointed.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

10. Mike Huckabee, on what squirrel tastes like/b]

“It tastes like squirrel.”

Mike Huckabee's quite a descriptive one isn't he not? Just like his presidential platform during the primaries.

[Person Man]

Why did the last two have to be sexual? You need to see a doctor before you break a chair-side lamp in the manner a lamp was knocked over in Road Trip by the kid's grandpa.

[??????????]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4

easier to post the link.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Let's not forget this Brownback/Tancredo exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndhweNJHWDU

[Downwinder]

Joe Biden, on Rudy Giuliani:

"There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11."


Hell yes, Rudy scared the piss out of me too.  And Joe Biden?  A comedy goldmine, god love him!

[Nixon in '80]

Mike Gravel: "Who the hell are we gonna nuke? (at Obama) Tell me Barack. Barack, who are you gonna nuke?"
Barack Obama: "I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise."
Mike Gravel: "Good. We're safe for a while."

Gravel was, by far, the most entertaining candidate I have ever seen.

[SPC]

“We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that 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.”

-Rudy Giuliani

Wasn't that originally said with an Austrian accent?