“It would be hard to concoct something more ridiculous.”
—anti-obesity crusader and “Twinkie tax” advocate Kelly Brownell,
regarding a Mississippi bill requiring restaurants to refuse
service to the obese, quoted in USA Today, February 6
“It is as outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie,
Illinois.”
—New America Foundation economist Len Nichols describing Barack
Obama’s attacks on Hillary Clinton’s health care plan, during a
press call, February 1
“It’s not like they were doing anything sneaky.”
—Texas state Rep. Ruth McClendon (D-San Antonio) on volunteers for
a needle exchange program who were accused of dispensing “heroin
injection rigs,” quoted in the San Antonio Current,
January 30
“It comes to a point where there are certain things you just
can’t do. And putting testicles on the back of a truck is just too
much.”
—Maryland Del. Lionell Spruill (D-Chesapeake), explaining his bill
banning “anything on a car or truck that looked like human
genitalia,” WTKR, January 15
“The only thing is, they don’t have Wal-Marts near my house. I
go to Best Buy or Target, but those places are pretty
expensive.”
—Greg Oden, a rookie on the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers who is
making $3.9 million a year, on his new home city, quoted in
Sports Illustrated, December 24
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