Quotes of the day

"Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.”
-- President Andrew Johnson, during post-Civil War Reconstruction

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“Are you suggesting the Republicans should write me off because I am a strict constitutionalist? I am the most conservative member here. I have voted, you know, against more spending and waste in government than anybody else. You’re saying now that we have to continue borrowing more money from China to finance this empire we can’t afford. Let me see if I get this right. We need to borrow $10 billion from China, and then we give it to (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf, who is a military dictator who overthrew an elected government, and then we go to war, we lose all these lives, promoting democracy in Iraq. I mean what’s going on here?"
-- Ron Paul, debate in South Carolina, Jan. 10, 2007