Quotes

From the March 2008 issue

“I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.”
—Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, CBS News, December 11

“The next thing the school should offer is cigarettes and alcohol. Why aren’t schools selling Hustler or Playboy magazines out of vending machines too?”
—anti-obesity crusader John Banzhaf on a Florida school’s plan to reward good grades with free Happy Meals, ABC News, December 10

“There are a lot of things that are created naturally but they are still not
legal.”
—a Kansas City prosecutor on a man charged with possessing a toad with the intent to use its venom to get high, Associated Press, December 3

“There should be more pressure from the Food Standards Agency, or one of the many departments the minister speaks about, to take us back to normal-sized bread instead of these super-sized sandwiches.”
—Baroness Gardener of Parkes, speaking on the scourge of “thick bread” during a debate in the House of Lords, Bolton News, December 1