‘Author H-P’ Archives
Thomas Jefferson Quotes (UPD: New Quotes, tribute video)
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the [...]
Louis CK Quotes (UPD: telling off Bin Laden, getting flipped off in credits)
Louis C.K. born Louis Szekely is gaining popularity with his Fx series "Louie" Louis C.K. "tells off" Osama Bin Laden: "You totally shouldn't have done 9/11...Would you want anybody to do a 9/11-y thing to you?" He then proceeded to call the attack a "bulls--- move." But if I'm with a woman and she wants to be with me, she must like [...]
Is President Obama a Muslim? Barack Obama’s interview on his faith
At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2004, when I was the religion reporter (I am now its religion columnist) at the Chicago Sun-Times, I met then-State Sen. Barack Obama at Café Baci, a small coffee joint at 330 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, to interview him exclusively about his spirituality. Our conversation took place a few days after [...]
Nancy Pelosi Quotes (upd: comments regarding mosque & investigating opponents)
Pelosi's official statement on Ground Zero mosque attempting to clarify her statement to investigate the opposition: The freedom of religion is a Constitutional right. Where a place of worship is located is a local decision. I support the statement made by the Interfaith Alliance that 'We agree with the ADL that there is a need for transparency [...]
Barack Obama Quotes (UPDATED w/latest support for ground zero mosque)
I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there. - August 14, 2010 "clarifying his comments supporting the 'Ground Zero' mosque Muslims "have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, according to a White House transcript. "That includes the [...]
Bill O’Reilly Quotes (taking on Jennifer Aniston)
"Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child. They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part, they can do it with or without that." - Jennifer Aniston promoting her film "The Switch" on the rules for modern woman have changed O'Reilly: [...]
Rosie O’Donnell Quotes
Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America. - September 12, 2006 I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7 -- building 7, which collapsed in on itself -- it is impossible for a building to fall [...]
Bill Maher Quotes (UPD: Latest interview)
People turn to religion because they fear death. We think life can't exist without us. You have to get over that fear. - July 30, 2010 interview with Post-Trib.com We've lost a lot of intelligence, period. People don't think, so it doesn't show up in their dialogue. Look at the news we see on TV. What I see on CNN or MSNBC at noon makes we want [...]
Edward Koch: Admit Defeat in Afghanistan and Leave
Wikipedia describes Ed Koch: a lawyer, politician, and political commentator who was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977, and a three-term Mayor of New York City, from 1978 to 1989. He also gained popular notoriety as Judge on The People's Court from 1997 to 1999. The Democrat from New York wrote this piece on Afghanistan [...]
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the [...]
