“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." -- Lyndon B. Johnson on the Civil Rights Act of 1957
To see those... monkeys from those African countries - damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!
~ Ronald "who am I again?" Reagan
"Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused." Woodrow Wilson
you could post that quote over a pic of lenin or marx and no one would question it. hard to come up with a better summation of capitalist foreign policy, just as true today as it was in 1907
"I will never apologize for the United States—I don't care what the facts are. I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy." - George HW Bush
I know we're an oil country and we need American energy. And, by the way, American energy production -- you wouldn't always know it -- ugh -- but, you know, it went up every year I was president. Um, and you know that whole -- suddenly America is like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas -- that was me, people. I just want you [[crowd laughter]]. So, uh -- ha ha -- it's like sometimes you go to Wall Street and folks'll be grumbling about "anti-business" and I said: "Have you checked where your stocks were when I came into office? Where they are now? What? What are you talking -- what are you complaining about? Just say "thank you," please.
-- Obama (great citations needed episode)
Those weapons of mass destruction gotta be somewhere
Bush at one of those press correspondents dinners
IIRC this was while he was showing dumb pictures of him looking around the Whitehouse (like under the desk, and in the bathrooms and shit).
