"If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?"
- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

"Isn't it amazing, how rapidly the Bush White House can move on the news of William Rehnquist's death and elevating John Roberts to be the Chief Justice nominee and yet they find a way to move at a positively glacial pace to drop drinking water and save some lives in New Orleans?"
- Bob Geiger

"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny."
- Barry Goldwater

The worst kind of disinformation, of course, is when you don't know you're being disinformed.

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
- Rachel Carson

"Members of Congress need to look down at their What Would Jesus Do bracelets... Jesus would not cut food stamps."

-Rev. Douglas Smith, Executive Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center, at a rally outside the office of House Agriculture Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) to call for the protection of the Food Stamp program and fairness in agricultural subsidies.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Stefan Zweig

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Stefan Zweig