"That lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that''s certainly isn't what God intended."
– Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) to the Florida Baptist Witness, August 24, 2006
"It's absurd to say everybody should be treated equally."
– Christopher Wolfe, Marquette University Political Science Professor, testifying before a legislative committee in support of an amendment to the Wisconsin constitution which will prohibit civil marriage for same sex couples, November 29, 2005
"I call them a fascist organization, because what they're doing is using terror to further their agenda."
– Bill O'Reilly on the ACLU, which defended the right of high school students in Boyd County, KY to form a Gay-Straight Alliance, January 9, 2003, "The O'Reilly Factor" on FOX News
"Do you think it's possible for a rich person to get justice in the U.S. today?"
– Conservative lecturer Donald Devine of the Ronald Reagan Leadership Academy on convicted felon and Enron Chair Kenneth Lay, New York Times, July 31, 2006
"In contemplating college liberals, you really regret, once again, that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they could be killed too. Otherwise, they will turn into outright traitors."
– Ann Coulter, Conservative Political Action Committee Conference, 2002
"Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."
– Rev. Jerry Falwell, via People for the American Way
"We need more intolerance."
– Stanley Zurawski, Sr., Tosans for Responsible Government, speaking at a meeting called to protest sexy lingerie at Victoria's Secret and anti-Bush t-shirts at Spencer Gifts in the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, WI, September 26, 2005
"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
– Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform,
"Grover Norquist: Field Marshall of the Bush Tax Plan," The Nation, May 14, 2001
"Social problems and economic hardships have nothing to do with civil rights."
– Linda Chavez, Center for Equal Opportunity, Washington Post, October 29, 1986
"If our graduates wind up in the government, they'll be social and political conservatives, they'll be presiding under the Bible."
– Rev. Jerry Falwell, Liberty University Chancellor on graduates of the Christian fundamentalist Liberty Law School, New York Times, November 18, 2004
"The only legalized discrimination in this country is against whites and males."
– Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute, National Journal, April 1, 1995, p. 790
"What is it about the receipt of a union card that turns workers into belligerent and disloyal jerks?
– WISN's Mark Belling, www.gmtoday.com, September 4, 2002
"There is only one way to eliminate nuclear weapons. Use them!"
– Rush Limbaugh
"Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state. If you can jab your spear through that, you can undermine the whole welfare state."
– Stephen Moore, Club for Growth, New York Times, February 8, 2005
"I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night."
– Ralph Reed, Former Director of the Christian Coalition
"This alliance between religion and politics didn't just happen. I've been dreaming and working on this for years."
– Paul Weyrich, "The Right Wing Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America," p. 93
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
– Pat Robertson, 1992 GOP Convention
"And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam 'allegedly' gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a 'war criminal' or 'committing crimes against humanity' is the same old thing. Liberal hate speech! And speaking of poison gas . . . I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them."
– Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988
