Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

-- George W. Bush, June 2003

I have always benefited from my wife's fashion review/corrections. (Well, not always... when she sees me before I can get out of the house!) However, when I saw this posting by Princess Sparkle Pony, I had an epiphany: I'm not a victim of fashion; fashion is a victim of me!

This changes everything! No longer am I prisoner to mysterious and arbitrary rules of color and patterns, not to mention even more arcane orthodoxy such as lapel and tie widths.

Ha, ha! Free at last; free at last!

Anything that is too big to fail is too big to exist.

-- IMF economist Simon Johnson

Dodging bullets on a daily basis is the price of being free.
America: Love it or leave it in a rubber sack! Or both!

-- Wonkette Comment

[Harvey Milk's story] gave me the hope one day I could live my life openly as who I am and then maybe even I could even fall in love and one day get married.

I think he'd want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than, by their churches, by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures who have value.

-- Dustin Lance Black

It is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way.

We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

-- Sean Penn

-- Excerpted and paraphrased from the Inaugural Address of President Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

-- Rachel Maddow, November 30, 2009

-- Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, on Walmart's rationalization for making the cake after ShopRite refused to make it.

-- President George Bush,
White House Transcript,
October 7, 2002

-- Bill Richardson, www.richardsonforpresident.com

-- Bobby Kennedy, March 18, 1968

-- Richard Horsley

Q Thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor to have you here. I'm a first-year student in South Asia studies. My question is in regards to private military contractors. Uniform Code of Military Justice does not apply to these contractors in Iraq. I asked your Secretary of Defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions.

THE PRESIDENT: I was going to ask him. Go ahead. (Laughter.) Help. (Laughter.)

Q I was hoping your answer might be a little more specific. (Laughter.) Mr. Rumsfeld answered that Iraq has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors. However, Iraq is clearly not currently capable of enforcing its laws, much less against -- over our American military contractors. I would submit to you that in this case, this is one case that privatization is not a solution. And, Mr. President, how do you propose to bring private military contractors under a system of law?

THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that very much. I wasn't kidding -- (laughter.) I was going to -- I pick up the phone and say, Mr. Secretary, I've got an interesting question. (Laughter.) This is what delegation -- I don't mean to be dodging the question, although it's kind of convenient in this case, but never -- (laughter.) I really will -- I'm going to call the Secretary and say you brought up a very valid question, and what are we doing about it? That's how I work. I'm -- thanks. (Laughter.)

-- President George Bush, White House Transcript, April 10, 2006

-- Prof. Steve Almond, in his letter resigning from Boston College over Commencement speaker Condoleezza Rice

-- Senator Russ Feingold, D-WI, calling for censure
of President Bush, March 12, 2006.