“The ABA (American Bar Association) is about as far left as the Communist Party, so those who usually get those awards are lawyers committed to socialism, not freedom.” ~ Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips

”I could give a flying crap about the political process … We’re an entertainment company.” ~ FOX News Channel’s Glenn Beck, Forbes interview 2010

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” ~ Glenn Beck

”I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. … No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out.” ~ Glenn Beck, May 17, 2005

”God is giving a plan I think to me that is not really a plan. … The problem is that I think the plan that the Lord would have us follow is hard for people to understand. … Because of my track record with you who have been here for a long time. Because of my track record with you, I beg of you to help me get this message out, and I beg of you to pray for clarity on my part.” ~ Glenn Beck

”Exercise freaks … are the ones putting stress on the health care system.” ~ Rush Limbaugh, June 12, 2009

”Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole.” ~ Ann Coulter

“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president.” ~ Ann Coulter

”The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” ~ Pat Robertson

“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob … Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.” ~ Rick Santorum

”I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” ~ Sharron Angle, the Tea Party candidate who won the Republican nomination in Nevada’s Senate primary, floating the possibility of armed insurrection; interview with right-wing talk radio host Lars Larson in Portland, OR, January 2010

“The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.” ~ Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?” ~ Sarah Palin, admitting that her family used to get treatment in Canada’s single-payer health care system, despite having demonized such government-run programs as socialized medicine that will lead to death-panel-like rationing, March 6, 2010

“I feel the best way to ensure Americans’ freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.” ~ John Ashcroft

“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” ~ Mitt Romney January 2012

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down” ~ Todd Akin (R) MO

”Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” ~ Rep. Michele Bachmann, April, 2009

”I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.” ~ Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

”We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.” ~ former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 2003

”It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: ‘Sit down and shut up,’ but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out.” ~ Sarah Palin, quitting her job as governor, adding, ”Only dead fish go with the flow,” July 3, 2009

“I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.” ~ Dick Cheney on his five draft deferments, April 5, 1989

“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.” ~ Dick Cheney April 30, 2001

“From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.” ~ Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in 2010

“Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant — they’re quite clear — that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments.” ~ Sarah Palin

“I don’t want to be associated with those people, but I also don’t want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior, because that’s one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn’t mean we approve of it.” ~ Rand Paul, taking issue with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while arguing that government should not prevent private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race

“If we took away the minimum wage – if conceivably it was gone – we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” ~ Michele Bachmann

“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.” ~ George W. Bush

“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” ~ George W. Bush

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” ~ George W. Bush

“I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.” ~ George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008

”There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” ~ President George W. Bush, Sept. 17, 2002

“Well, I learned a lot….I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries” ~ Ronald Reagan

“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“When the President does it that means that it’s not illegal.” ~ Richard M. Nixon

“Facts are stupid things.” ~Ronald Reagan attempting to quote John Adams in 1988

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.“ – Will Rogers

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A fool and his money are soon elected.“ – Will Rogers

“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.“ – Andrew Jackson

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.“ – Thomas Jefferson

”The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.“ – Woodrow Wilson

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“PEACE! It’s a lifestyle. Not a salutation.”

That was he speech after Romney had been advised to gain favor with the audience by establishing an unconscious connection in them between America and himself. Instead, audiences just wound up associating Romney with unconsciousness.