“Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon
dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.”

– Michele Bachmann on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives on Earth Day, April 22, 2009 (1:16 into video)

“If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go
with Rush Limbaugh. My take on it was Colin had already
left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican.”

– Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, May 10, 2009

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

– John F. Kennedy in an address at Rice University, September 12, 1962 (8:40 into video)

“We are America, we do not f*cking torture!”

– Shepard Smith on Fox News, April 22, 2009

“It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or
having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are
endangering the strategic interests of the United States.”

– Barack Obama speaking to reporters in Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago, about his meeting with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, April 19, 2009 (1:42 into video)