From the June 2008 issue
“I just think this is one of the least sleazy things he’s
done.”
—pundit Tucker Carlson on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s fondness
for prostitutes, MSNBC, March 18
“I don’t want young people thinking that half-dressing is the
way to go. I want them to think about their future.”
—Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin on the city’s baggy pants ban,
quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 6
“I’m the first to admit that I was wrong for not voting. I got
caught up in the wave of apathy that has affected many of my
generation.”
—Republican congressional hopeful and former University of Missouri
star running back Brock Olivo, quoted in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, February 26
“Wait a minute, we can’t have acquittals. If we’ve been holding
these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We
can’t have acquittals. We’ve got to have convictions.”
—Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes in a 2005 meeting about
Guantanamo detainees, according to Col. Morris Davis, former chief
prosecutor for Guantanamo’s military commissions, quoted in The
Nation, February 20
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