From the July 2011 issue
“In ’94 people were elected simply to come here to kill the National Endowment for the Arts. Now they’re here to kill women.”
—Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) on the GOP’s insistence that public funding for Planned Parenthood be stripped as part of a budget deal, quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, April 7
“It’s nothing different than what slave politics was.”
—Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City), explaining her opposition to local control of the St. Louis Police Department, quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 7
“We’re trying to score a victory for the Republican people, for—for the American—for the Republican people—trying to score a victory for the American people, not for the Republican Party.”
—Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), explaining the GOP’s goals for congressional budget negotiations, Fox News, April 7
“All these knuckleheads who want to run for president, like Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich. Do we really want stupid people to run?”
—former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura on the 2012 Republican presidential field, quoted in The Washington Times, April 3
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