Quotes

From the December 2007 issue

“It’s always darkest right before you get clobbered over the head with a pipe wrench. But then it actually does get darker.”
—anonymous GOP pollster on Republicans’ chances in 2008, quoted in The Washington Post, September 1

“I’m going to be honest with you—I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s health care system. Is it a government-run system?”
—Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards at a campaign event in Oskaloosa, Iowa, August 16

“Even the Nazis didn’t put artists out of work.”
—Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, on the negative impact of the Internet, The Colbert Report, August 16

“Starbucks is a multibillion-dollar corporation. So I guess that must mean we’re bad.”
—Starbucks attorney Daniel Nash in his opening statement to the National Labor Relations Board on allegations of union busting, July 9

“I’m just disappointed in you, sir. I just really am. I expect this from the guy that we get out of the hood. I mean, people vote for you.…No wonder why we’re going down the tubes.”
—Officer Dave Karsnia, during a taped interview with Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), whom he arrested for lewd behavior in a Minneapolis airport rest room, June 11