pathological political quotes

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I want to start by saying that this theme didn't seem to fit in say, the "Quotes" thread, nor the "Propaganda" childboard in the "Orwellian World" section. Those all had a particular "flavour" & even though this isn't a million miles off, I thought it best to place it here. As usual, the mods/admins will determine the best fit.

Okay so I started by looking at some "humorous" quotes of one very famous individual & I ended up finding the title for this thread - quotes by pathological narcissists & psychopaths. Some are known to either us (members) or the wider public, some not so much. Just reading so many of these is pretty depressing because society has been so ponerized, I think that we may be on the brink of complete programming. I'm referring to the C's comments: "when the programming is complete."

There's an incredible amount of these out there & plenty can be found rather easily (see http://politicalhumor.about.com) so, enough introduction, here are just a few off the bat...

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --President George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

So?" --Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to an ABC News correspondent after she cited a recent poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting

Not bad for a start.

When we were in college we used to take a popcorn popper -- because that was the only thing they would let us have in the dorms -- and fry squirrels in the popcorn popper." --Mike Huckabee, completely freaking us out

Now I don't comment in the "2-D friends" section, but I LOVE animals & this is ghastly to me. All though cruelty to animals is horrible all-around, certain acts to certain creatures feels more sickly than others, to me at least. Worse to come.

I'm sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It's a lot safer to do it on marijuana" --Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, speaking to high school students

You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement,"

And here's the background of that last quote for context, thank god for P.P. so I can name these behaviours...

Rep. Pete Stark Apologizes For Suggesting Bush Enjoys Troop Deaths in Iraq
Published October 23, 2007FoxNews.com
Democratic Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark of California apologized Tuesday for comments he made last week suggesting President Bush was sending troops to Iraq to get their "heads blown off for his amusement."

The apology came after the House voted 196-173 with eight members voting present to table a resolution introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner censuring Stark.

Though the motion amounts to a failed vote, Stark addressed fellow lawmakers afterward to apologize.

"I want to apologize first of all to my colleagues, many of whom I have offended, to the president. his family, to the troops that may have found (offense) in my remarks as were suggested in the motion that we just voted on, and I do apologize. ... With this apology I will become as insignificant as I should be and we can return to the issues that do divide us but that we can resolve," Stark said to applause.

After his mea culpa, Stark walked walked off the floor to the Democratic side of the chamber and for at least five minutes stood sobbing while fellow Democrats gathered around him. Reporters close to the Speaker's Lobby were not able to hear why he was crying.

Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who was one of the members gathered around Stark, told FOX News that the war is taking a great toll on members of Congress who are going to funerals of soldiers, seeing veterans returning from war and not getting the services they need and listening to the views of their constituents.

The Iraq war "takes a great toll on members ... within that context their measure is tested, but there's not that much in the cup because it's so painful to face this and detest what's going on," Kaptur said without excusing Stark's original gaffe. "People here aren't like buttons on a computer. We are human ... we all have weakness and say things that we wish we hadn't said."

Stark's emotional demeanor was in direct contrast to his position last week, outlined in the eight-paragraph resolution that claimed his "personally abusive language" impugned the president's and Congress' motives and dishonored the troops.

The resolution quoted Stark and then concluded that "Mr. Stark, by his despicable conduct, has dishonored himself and brought discredit to the House and merits the censure of the House for the same. Resolved, that the member from California, Mr. Stark, is hereby so censured."

Stark's original comments came before a failed override vote on the president's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Criticizing the president for his refusal to add $35 billion over five years to expand SCHIP to 10 million kids, Stark said Bush is able to find money for the troops, but not for children's health.

"You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement," Stark said.

"President Bush's statements about children's health shouldn't be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress. I urge my colleagues to vote to override his veto," he continued.

With demands from House Republicans to apologize, Stark then said he neither respects "the commander-in-chief who keeps (the troops) in harm's way nor the chicken hawks in Congress."

Asked to reprimand Stark, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week called the comments "inappropriate" and distracting from the the subject at hand.

On Tuesday before the vote, Republican lawmakers slammed Stark for the comments.

"For him to insult out military men and women because he is trying to degrade the commander-in-chief is just plain wrong. He should be thanking them for their service," said Rep. Thelma Drake, R-Va.

"Stark blatantly violated the rules of the House. We can not let that stand to bring discredit on the House of Representatives," said Rep. John Carter, R-Texas.

How many things were wrong in that article?! There wasn't even any point in bolding anything, we should all be able to see a snapshot of our society there. Well, I hope we all can. Btw, that was from 2007. Next.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." --Ann Coulter, arguing that it would be better if we were all Christian

Here's the link for the video. If she was born human, there's definitely not much left, if any.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=18aYlBNjW_0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D18aYlBNjW_0

More from Ann:

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women." --Ann Coulter

That's enough out of her for one day. The next one isn't a pathological political quote, but check the effects…

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future." --Miss South Carolina Teen Lauren Caitlin Upton, after being asked why 1/5th of Americans can't locate the U.S on a world map.

No comment. I could do this for hours, but let me leave you with some quotes from that famous individual I was looking for, the one that got this ball rolling. Over to you Arnold...

"I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino when I've made four movies in Mexico." —campaigning for California governor in 2003

As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people."

"The public doesn't care about figures." -discussing his economic views

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."

"Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day."

I'm leaving out the rest of the Schwarzenegger sexual deviant stuff (mainly 'cause there's loads) & we come too what made me want to start a thread on those who just say this virtually every day. 'Tis grim stuff indeed.

Nixon was always being attacked sexually. It was always said that he was a fag and that he had no sexual relations with his wife for 15 years and that was why he liked power. And Hitler had only one ball, and that was why he wanted to conquer the world." -in a 1977 interview with Time Out

My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt." –on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." –in a 1990 interview with U.S. News

"I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." —explaining who his heroes were during a 1975 interview during the filming of a documentary, Pumping Iron

"I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered." –in the 1977 film "Pumping Iron"

Thanks Arnold, good luck with your presidential candidacy. Not.

 

[Corvus]

Thanks for sharing. I saw one video once where Arnie was talking about training and those standard motivational stuff that easily feeds masses, how much are you ready to give in, do you do gym for looks or to do something more, do you want to be average and loser, that that is for losers(yea I want to be loser if that defines keeping your psychical balance and soul ), that his worst nightmare is to be average, etc... It looks very childish, like child speaking what it wants to be when it grows up, but that is probably and state of their being, so infantile and shallow because they would not be ponerized so easily if it was other way. These types of people are ready to sell themselves for fame and power without question, which s visible from his quotes - no moral boundaries, just worship of power and sucking of energy to themselves ad infinite, never truly satisfied and never getting it enough. No will whatsoever but only selfishness and pure desire masked as "willpower". His latest movies in his older age for which he needs dozens of doctors to patch him up to be able to look as something in his movies show an example.

So, in a way it is not surprise that today s youths are in these kind of condition when worshiping people like this that are promoted on every step from movies, pop culture... From my experience in sport I got a good glimpse what kind of people are dwelling there. They are all like Arnie more or less, thee are of course always exceptions. While I was easily satisfied when winning some competition and wanting to take rest(because I am that type that always has need to take a step down to rejuvenate and keep mental balance by doing so, finding some peace so not popping out as every normal person probably would) these kind of people seemed never satisfied and always hungry for more and more and it seemed it did not have any toll on them, no serious internal conflict that may come from that emptiness and shallowness. In that time I could not yet grasp it fully what it was about. Can you imagine a guy that has 50 years and internally developed as 10 year child. When it comes to my former coach and last time I saw him to thank him for everything(after reading Castaneda example for thanking everyone who thought you something, in this case building up will despite not going along with everything from him because of his issues and stubbornness, but few did because everyone left and I was among last ones who stayed that long because everyone looked at self interest and words like loyalty have meaning for me), he was still egotistical and bitter inside(despite some mask of not really caring for it and changing) because he thought he did not get what he deserves.



This is maybe off topic but here are some examples of others and how easily they sell their soul for fame and maybe and example of some type of possession and mind control:

“Sold my soul, from heaven into hell.” - 30 Seconds to Mars
“Sell his soul for cheap. Let’s make a deal, sell me your soul. Designer of the devil.” - 50 Cent
“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A” - Aaron Lewis
“‘I sold my soul to the devil.” - Abi Titmuss
“I’m just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.” - Ab-Soul
“Hey Satan, pay my dues. I’m gonna take you to hell, I’m gonna get ya Satan.” - AC/DC
“Dr. Dre told me he sold his soul to the devil for a million bucks.” - Alonzo Williams
“The dark covers me and I cannot run now.” - Amy Winehouse
But when it comes time to decide your fate, they’ll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause’ they don’t care about us. They just use us up.” - Asher Roth
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Aubrey Plaza
“Dance with the devil. I want ya, yes I do.” - Bad Company
“See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.” - Barry Sanders
“Satan is my master. He has always been.” - Ben Folds Five
“Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.” - Bette Midler
“I felt something else come into me.” - Beyonce
“I wanna go to hell.” - Biggie
“Bout to inhale like I’m finnin to see Satan.” - Big Sean
“I’m rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I’m the only son of the devil.” - Big L
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Bill Kelliher
“My family is under attack by Satan, I’m scared for daughter Miley.” - Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley Cyrus
“I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.” - Bishop Lamont
“Prayin to Satan. Satan done got me.” - Bizarre
“I sold my soul.” - Bloodsimple
“I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can’t see. (devil)” - Bob Dylan
“The devil took me by hand.” - Bon Jovi
“Want me to sell my soul.” - Bow Wow
“I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.” - Brad Pitt
“I’m a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.” - Britney Spears
“Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It’ll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.” - Bruce Springsteen
“Many have tried to go into the night. But that’s the price we pay when we living on the other side. Tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you’re from.” - Bruno Mars
“I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.” - Busta Rhymes
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Cage
‎”I trade my soul for a wish.” - Carly Rae Jepsen
“Leaning up against the record machine, He’s the devil in disguise. A snake with blue eyes. And he only comes out at night.” - Carrie Underwood
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Chris Palko
“She’s a fallen angel (Lucifer), waitin’ for me to love her.” - Chris Brown
“Given Satan himself this free promotion.” - Chris Webby
“So now the devil’s in my soul.” - Christina Aguilera
“To offer you a contract. You will rather sell your soul to Satan.” - Dark Shadows: movie
“Cause’ I sign a deal with the devil.” - David Banner
“Rock’s always been the devil’s music.” - David Bowie
“I sell my soul to the devil” - David Hutto
“I got a dark soul. Dancing in the dark.” - Dev
“I sold my soul, cold as ice.” - Dissection
“Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I’d go through hell to make him mine.” - Dolly Parton
“No angel born in hell. Could break that Satan’s spell. I saw Satan laughing with delight the day the music died.” - Don McLean
“Devil came to me and he said: I know what you need. You will burn in hell.” - Dover
“If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.” - Drake
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - DMX
“Dancing with the devil.” - Earl Sweatshirt
“Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.” - Eazy-E
“I sold my soul and then time takes its toll, forever I stay damned.” - Edge of Sanity
“It cost me my soul out of control in a devil’s world.” - E.D.I.
“My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ‘cause they’re calling me.” - Ellie Goulding
“You sold your soul at the crossroads. Devil, Satan, Satan.” - Elton John
“Because I’m evil.” - Elvis Presley
“I sold my soul to the devil. I’m going to hell. I’m headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I’ll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan’ll be in to see me later to see if I’m interested in being partners. Devil worshippin’, Satan music.” - Eminem
“I’ve come to believe my souls on the other side. Without a soul. Save me from the dark. I sold my soul. Don’t try to fix me.” - Evanescence
“A contract with the devil for a life of disdain. I sold my soul.” - Fear Factory
“The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.” - Fergie
“And to take your soul. I’m damned so here’s to drinks in the dark at the end of my road. And I’m ready to suffer, found the devil in me.” - Florence and the Machine
“Are they allowed to keep their soul? How do they get so successful?” - Food Inc. movie
“I’m the devil’s advocate. We have our own worshipers.” - Frank Zappa
“It’s a vocal point to express my Satanism.” - Glen Benton
“I graduated into the occult.” - Hall & Oats
“The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn’t imagine in your wildest dream.” - Hilary Duff
“Met the devil, made a deal for it.” - Hollywood Undead
“You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.” - Ice Cube
“Sold my soul.” -Iron & Wine
“Sold my soul to Satan. I’ve been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I’m easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.” - J. Cole
“I love Satan. Satan sells tickets.” - Jack Black
“Satan is around y’all. Devil on your shoulder.” - Jadakiss
“Love the devil.” - Ja Rule
“Lookin at me like I’m Lucifer, cause he know I will deal with his case. Gon’ try and fit in with the Devil, I am on another seat” - Jason D. Harrow
“See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don’t see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan” - Jay Rock
“Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that’s right it’s wicked, that’s life I live it. Ain’t askin’ for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power.” - Jay-Z
“I have the devil in me.” - Jerry Lee Lewis
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Jesse Malin
“I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.” - Jimmy Buffett
“Working in the dark.” - Johnny Cash
“I’ve sold my soul to the devil.” - John Lennon
“Don’t sell your soul to have what someone had yesterday. I only know him in the dark. Never took this road before. Yeah, I know that it’s wrong, I do.” - JoJo
“I speak for Satan, Satan, Satan. My sweet forsaken Satan, Satan.” - Jonas Brothers
“Done a deal with the devil.” - Judas Priest
“I had sold my soul for pleasure.” - Judy Collins
“Satan is my master.” - Justin Timberlake
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Kanye West
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Kathy Griffin
“I sold my soul to the devil” - Katy Perry
“Them demons got me. Dear Lord save me! the Devil’s working hard.” - Kendrick Lamar
“I wish I know that right from the start, that I was dancing with the dark.” - Ke$ha
“The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul.” - Kid Cudi
“I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.” - KISS
“Sold my soul to the devil.” - Krayzie Bone
“This devilist bitch is so succulent, taking a piece of my soul every time.” - Kuniva
“I will get stoned and worship Satan.” - Kurt Cobain
“Judas (Devil) is the demon I cling to.” - Lady Gaga
“Stealin’ my eternal soul.” - Lauryn Hill
“I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.” - Layzie Bone
“It’s nobody’s fault but mine. Try to save my soul tonight. Devil he told me to roll.” - Led Zeppelin
“I sold my soul. Blame it on the devil.” - Liam Finn
“Devil took my soul.” - Lil B
“These devils find a way to get at’cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.” - Lil’ Kim
“She got the devil in her, I do whatever I want, hell’s angel. (Lucifer) Dance with the devil. Devil on my shoulder” - Lil Wayne
“Sold you soul for a dollar.” - LL Cool J
“I got that devilish flow, rock n roll, no halo.” -LMFAO
“I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.” - Lisa Lopes
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you’re the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.” - Ludacris
“I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.” - Lupe Fiasco
“The slice of a soul as a man on the right hand.” - Machine Gun Kelly
“I don’t give a damn if I go to hell.” - Madonna
“There’s nothing left this soul to sell.” - Marilyn Manson
“I have sold my soul.” - Marina and the Diamonds
“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” - Matthew 4
“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” - Matthew 16:26
“And Larry, respect is what you traded for fame, when you made your deal with Satan.” - Maureen McCormick on Larry, the Cable Guy.
“The game is so cold. The boy sold his soul. Devil said ‘I’ma give you the world.’” - MC Hammer
“I am the Devil’s advocate.” - Megadeth
“To the devil his due, I sold my soul.” - Mercyful Fate
“I wish to sell my soul, to be reborn. Devil take my soul, with diamonds you repay. I will burn in hell from the day I die.” - Metallica
“With devil worship and satanic verses.” - Method Man
“Sell my soul to him.” - Midnight Oil
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Micah LeVar Troy
“In the devil’s game. Even sell my soul to the devil.” - Michael Jackson
“I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.” - Michelle Shocked
“Demonic, that’s what we are.” - Motley Crue
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Nazareth
“I made a deal with the devil. I sold my soul.” - Never Shout Never
“I don’t want to end up losing my soul.” - Nicki Minaj
“Ja sold his soul.” - Obie Trice on Ja Rule
“Made ya’ deal with the devil, but you sold your soul.” - Pimp C
“”Lucifer Sam, always sitting by your side. He releaseth my soul for he has great power.” - Pink Floyd
“I find only demons. I be the hatred in your eyes and the Satan in your lives.” - Proof
“Sold my soul.” - Pusha T
“First of all, we want to thank Satan.” - Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Took an oath, I’ma stick it out to the end.” - Rihanna
“Hello Satan, it’s time to go. Me and the devil, walkin’ side by side.” - Robert Johnson
“I made a deal with the devil and sold my soul.” - Robert L. Green, Jr.
“Cause’ I live with Satan.” - Robert Plant
“I took whatever the devil offered me.” - Robin Thicke
“I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Than I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.” - Roseanne Barr
“I made a pact with the devil. I signed a deal with my maker, Satan’s my record company.” - Royce da 5’9
“I got a Lucifer soul. I’ll be the Devil’s son, Devil’s work, gettin’ work.” - Schoolboy Q
“I’m selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby (The song was a dedication to Lucifer and the song backmasked says ‘he ate my soul’.) I’m torn I’m selling my soul to the rhythm because I’m become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I’m not looking back.” - Selena Gomez
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Shelton Hank Williams
“Leased my soul to the Devil with the option to buy.” -Shyne
“Warriors from the gates of hell, in lord Satan we trust.” - Slayer
“Why not sell my soul and go on Jersey Shore? And that’s what I did.” - Snooki
“I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control.” - Snoop Dogg
“He sold his soul to the devil.” - Son House
“Blue eyed devil. Six hundred and sixty six.” - Soul Coughing
“Warriors from the gates of hell, in lord Satan we trust.” - Slayer
“I’m a prisoner of a demon, this must be my punishment for selling my soul.” -Suicidal Tendencies
“They call me devil boy. You’re gonna operate in hell.” - Tech N9ne
“You’ve got your demons. I’ve got a few of my own.” - The Eagles
“He lost his soul to a woman so heartless.” - The Fray
“Walking on top of the devils roof. Walk through the gates of Hell, see my Impala parked in front.” - The Game
“Too bad I sold my soul to the -flickin- devil.” - The Pharcyde
“Stole many a man’s soul and faith. Just call me Lucifer.” - The Rolling Stones
“Sold my soul.” - The Used
“I’m throwin’ away my soul.” - The Wanted
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - This Providence
“They’ll rather hand me to Satan.” - T.I
“I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.” - Tori Amos
“The devil’s got a hold of me.” - Travis Barker
“I sold my soul. Sellin’ my soul for material wishes, fast cars and bitches. Am I cold, or is it just I sold my soul?” - Tupac Shakur
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Tyler, the Creator
“Satan has a devil put aside for me.” - Queen
“Made ya’ deal with the devil, but you sold your soul.” - UGK
“Runnin’ with the devil. When I jumped out on that road.” - Van Halen
“I sold my soul to the devil.” - Vaya Con Dios
“I am possessed by all that is evil. The death of your God, I demand and sit at Lord Satan’s left hand.” - Venom
“I sold my soul way down in the dirt.” - Volbeat
“The devil entered me.” -Waka Flocka
“I wouldn’t wish success on my worst foe. You see, the devil is alive but he work slow. And yea I should’ve seen the signs by my first quote. Devil makes you famous.” -Wale
“I sold my soul a long time ago. Signed and sealed. I met him down by the crossroads.” - W.A.S.P.
“Sold my soul.” - Willy Mason
“Sold my soul.” - Wish
“Given to the beast by fate.” - Yelawolf
“Married to the game. If we’re dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.” - Young Jeezy



Demonic possessions

“One of the biggest thing about Jimi was what he believed in. He believed that he was possessed by some spirit.” - Alan Douglas
“It’s like I’m on automatic pilot. By the time we’re halfway through the first number someone else is steering me. I’m just along for the ride. I become possessed when I get onstage.” - Angus Young
“When people meet me, they expect Sahsa. I’m really reserved, and nothing like Sasha. *She can do things I cannot do. Right before I performed, I raised my hand up, and it was kinda the first time that I felt something else come into me. It’s a transformation when I go on stage. I have out-of-body experiences [on stage]. If I cut my leg, if I fall, I don’t even feel it. I’m so fearless, I’m not aware of my face or my body.” - Beyonce
“Before the show, you gotta kind of prepare. I look in the mirror. When you get on stage, it takes over you know. I’m a complete different person. It’s like I don’t know who I am.” - B.O.B
“Sometimes when the possession takes place, it’s very dramatic. It feels like I’m being wiped out as an individual and replaced by something.” - Caesar Pink
“There’s an invisible radio that Jimi Hendrix tuned into, and when you there, you start channeling other music. You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down.’” - Carlos Santana
“I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn’t have acted that, I couldn’t have written that.” - Denzel Washington
“I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control. My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.” - Depeche Mode
“My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.” - Eminem
“Oh man, I’m a big fan of Jimi Hendrix. And just watching his concerts and things like that definitely gets my morale built up when I’m out onstage.” - Flo Rida
“I just go crazy when I go on stage … it’s like someone else takes over my body.” - Glen Tipton
“There are demons in my eyes, I had to get them out.” - Houston
“It’s like a spiritual outer-body experience, I feel very possessed.” - Janelle Monae
“I can’t explain it to you man. I go through my Rain Man, and I just start mumbling. I got possessed by the spirits.” - Jay-Z
“I met the spirit of music. An appearance of the devil, on a Venice canal, running I saw Satan.” - Jim Morrison
“It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.” - John Lennon
“One night we were playing and suddenly the spirit entered into me, and I was playing, but it was no longer me playing.” - John McLaughlin
“Sometimes I feel like I’m possessed with a multitude of demons.” - Johnny Depp
“I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.” - Katy Perry
“I realized my father’s sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.” - Lady Gaga
“I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness … that a lot of people don’t believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.” - Little Richard
“You can’t describe it except to say it’s like a mysterious energy that comes from the metaphysical plane and into my body. It’s almost like being a medium.” - Marc Storace
“Jeykll and Hyde…More than two. I’m so many people. They shock me sometimes, I wish it was just me.” - Marilyn Monroe
“When I get on stage, I get possessed.” - Meat Loaf
“I feel that somewhere, someplace it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world. When I hit the stage it’s all of a sudden a ‘magic’ from somewhere that comes and the spirit just hits you, and you just lose control of yourself.” - Michael Jackson
“Roman is my alter ego. He’s mean. *He says the things I can’t say. ” - Nicki Minaj
“I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.” - Oprah Winfrey
“I’ve got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.” - Ozzy Osbourne
“You feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.” - River Phoenix
“Pagey had written the chords and played them for me. I was holding the paper and pencil, and for some reason, I was in a very bad mood. Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out words. I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leaped out of my seat.” - Robert Plant about ‘Stairway to Heaven’
“Yeah literally it’s like a possession. All of a sudden you’re in. It’s like an energy that keeps going.” - Robert Williams
“When I went away, I left my body and I could hear other voices. A spiritual message really. It would all just come out, as if I were in a trance. It would scare me to read it because it seemed to belong to another place.” - Roseanne Arnold
“I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.” - Shirley MacLaine
“You gotta put the whole spirit in the building.” - Snoop Dogg
“It’s amazing, ’cause sometimes when we’re onstage, I feel like somebody’s just moving the pieces. I’m just going, ‘God, we don’t have any control over this.’ And that’s magic.” -Stevie Nicks
“I’m a prisoner of a demon, this must be my punishment for selling my soul.” - Suicidal Tendencies
“There’s this one particular relative who was my age when she died. I have had this feeling she was there guiding me and helping me with my performances.” - Winona Ryder
“I’m going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.” - Vin Diesel

Makes you wonder at least for some cases.

 

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More pathological quotes... Some "Bushisms", first up is Bush & the ayatollah. (Bush ayatollah)

Religious freedom and tolerance is a protected right. I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should be able to participate in their constitutional free exercise of religion. I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the U.S. military to promote it.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 67), second remark, 2000-10-15, Web, White & Blue 2000, Rolling Cyber Debate question: "With religious diversity increasing, what are your thoughts on the protection of religious freedom and the separation of church and state? Should religions like Wicca be banned from recognition by the military, as some legislators suggest?" Bush honors freedom of religion, but only if your religion is on his approved list. Notice how Bush does away with the Wiccan’s right to religious liberty by redefining Wicca as not a religion and further denigrating it with the term witchcraft. In the same way, atheism, that is, the freedom from government-imposed or government-sponsored religious intrusion, being not itself a bona fide religion, is twisted by Bush to become a viewpoint or practice or right that is not covered under the First Amendment guarantee of religious Liberty.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character… By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 67), 2004-01-04, helping to soften the blows of justice in requiring taxpayers to bail out Roman Catholic schools through a publicly funded voucher program after numerous Roman Catholic parishes and dioceses being held financially accountable for clerics who terrorized and molested young boys and girls over a period of decades in the pedophile priest scandal, at a White House ceremony whose audience included more over 200 Roman Catholic officials; quoted from American Atheists Press Release, "Bush off Key in Singing Praises of Parochial Schools"

We need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God. Those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 67)
Source: CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) News, 2002-06-27

We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights, endowed by a Creator.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 67)
speaking to community and religious leaders in Moscow on 2002-05-24 Source: White House news release
Explaining why it is ok to ignore the constitution.

Sorry, it's got to be done...

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith… We need believing people.
~ Adolf Hitler (born: 1889-04-20 died: 1945-04-30 at age: 56)

The idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.
~ George W. Bush

In 1994, there were 67 schools in Texas that were rated exemplorary according to our own tests.
~ George W. Bush

Do you have blacks, too?
~ George W. Bush
speaking to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Source: Reported 2002-04-28 by columnist Fernando Pedreira (and friend of the Brazilian president) of the Estado Sao Paulo in an article titled An Overwhelming Ignorance. Also cited by The Washington Post and der Spiegel, 2001-11-08

Remember how plenty of people have noted that the psychopath elite will just come right out, saying their plans & what they've done, or ARE doing? From their own mouths...

By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum.
~ George W. Bush The bottom 60% got 14.7% of the cuts. So by bottom, perhaps Bush means anyone below the top 3 billionaires.

It is pointless to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes because the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.
~ George W. Bush, 2004-08-09

Ha! A truism.

This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.
~ George W. Bush at the Al Smith Dinner, New York, 2000-10-20

You know what would happen, they hire accountants and lawyers and you get stuck with the bill.
~ George W. Bush, 2004-09-04 on why it is pointless to tax the rich.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.
~ Jeb Bush (born: 1953-02-11 age: 60) Imprimis Magazine 1995
This may explain why brother George seems to be intentionally attempting to tank the economy.

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs — the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
~Jeb Bush (born: 1953-02-11 age: 60) Imprimis Magazine 1995
In other words, Jeb wants to stop the functions of government that create prosperity. The man is either nuts, or has the same problems with English as his brother.

We mustn’t assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time – at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and families.
~ Jeb Bush (born: 1953-02-11 age: 60) Imprimis Magazine 1995
Jeb wants to destroy democratic government and hand the reigns to private corporations, much the way society was organised in the 1800s, without any regulation on the robber barons. He must have been impressed by the 1975 sci if movie, Rollerball, starring James Caan.

It’s your money. You paid for it.
~ George W. Bush, 2000-10-18, LaCrosse, Wisconsin

Well, I don’t know if you saw the report that came out — recently came out. It showed that the federal deficit is projected to be $94 billion less than previously expected.
~ George W. Bush, 2005-08-03 In other words he is praising himself for inaccurately estimating. He was embarrassed say what the deficit amount actually was, the highest in recorded history.

Embarrassed? No. Never. To Be Continued...

 

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Here's one from Winston Churchill:

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

 

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Here are some "Xmas Bushisms." I swear I could do at least a week on this loony. Now, we all know that he's a psychopath (probably the dumbest one) but something must've really gone wrong in that lineage to produce him. Must've been some serious inbreeding. "Bush & delusions of grandeur" to kick off with...

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~ George W. Bush, 2001-09-20, in other words, Gott mitt Uns, speech to Congress.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.
~ George W. Bush 2003-06-24, Reported in Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz
according to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, from minutes acquired by Ha’aretz from cease-fire negotiations between Abbas and faction leaders from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular and Democratic Fronts (circa, 2003-06), quoted from Arnon Regular, ‘Road map is a life saver for us,’ PM Abbas tells Hamas (Haaretz.com: 2003-06-27). Bush is so full of it he expects us to believe that God too was deceived about the presence of WMDs (Weapon of Mass Destructions).

I am carrying out divine commands.
~ George W. Bush
in front of the astonished Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, reported in The Toronto Globe and Mail

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.
~ George W. Bush
Which includes Lincoln freeing the slaves, LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) and the end of segregation, Truman and stopping Japan and the Nazis…, reported by New Yorker writer Ken Auletta

I’ve heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President.
~ George W. Bush , reported by James Robison (a prominent evangelical minister)

I’ve coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.
~ George W. Bush
Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., 2001-02-29

Next, Iraq & other inconsistencies.

And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it.
~ George W. Bush

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course.
~ George W. Bush

The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.
~ George W. Bush

I don’t know where he is. I have no idea and I really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.
~ George W. Bush 2002-03-13
Why did Bush lose interest in catching bin Laden, even though it would give him a massive popularity surge? If he caught bin Laden, the public would lose interest in continuing the two wars that shovel money to Cheney, Bush and friends in the arms and mercenary industry.

So Bush just said that the troops were going to be in Iraq...and never leave. Classic "psychopaths in power", (PIP!) telling us upfront & not expecting anything to be done to stop the rot.

Gosh, I just don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden. It’s kind of one of those exaggerations.
~ George W. Bush

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.
~ George W. Bush, Omaha, Neb., 2001-02-28
[Note: Bush supports the death penalty.]

I want justice. And there’s an old poster out West, I recall, that says, Wanted: Dead or Alive
~ George W. Bush Bush is confused about the difference between revenge and justice.

Let me tell you what else I’m worried about: I’m worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
~ George W. Bush, 2000-11-06
Chastising Gore, then spending a trillion dollars, he claims not to kill Iraqis, but to rebuild Iraq after demolishing it bloodlessly.

Another example would be the Dred Scott case, which is where judges, years ago, said that the Constitution allowed slavery because of personal property rights. That’s a personal opinion. That’s not what the Constitution says. The Constitution of the United States says we’re all — you know, it doesn’t say that. It doesn’t speak to the equality of America.
~ George W. Bush in the second Kerry-Bush debate, 2004-10-08, promising not to appoint a supreme court judge who was intent on reintroducing slavery.

Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom.
~ George W. Bush aka George Earth-to-Mothership W. Bush at GOP Convention, 2004-09-02

What did I say before about PIP "fessing up?" The freedom of psychopaths to rape, pillage, & plunder all & sundry. He's blatantly talking the p**s.

I’ve made mistakes… I haven’t done cocaine during the past seven, no twenty-five years.
~ George W. Bush, reported by Nancy Gibbs in Time Magazine 1999-08-30
In other words Bush confesses to taking cocaine either 8 or 26 years previous in either 1991 or 1973. If he meant never, he would have said so, not picked some irrelevant number. Just what are these mistakes he refers to? Obviously they include the cocaine use.
Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program. Bush had a religious conversion in 1984 at age 39, when he, as he describes it, came to the Lord after a weekend of talks with the Rev. Billy Graham. Within a year, he gave up drinking.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great nation.
~ George W. Bush

You don’t get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.
~ George W. Bush Describing what it’s like to be governor of Texas
1999-07 Governing Magazine
From Paul Begala’s Is Our Children Learning?

One more.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
~ Albert Einstein (born: 1879-03-14 died: 1955-04-18 at age: 76)

Yeah, what he said.

 

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see the video in sott article http://www.sott.net/article/270823-Wells-Fargo-fraud-Opened-customer-accounts-without-consent . Listen to what the last guy has to say.

 

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see the video in sott article _http://www.sott.net/article/270823-Wells-Fargo-fraud-Opened-customer-accounts-without-consent . Listen to what the last guy has to say.

Could someone please help me out, that video refuses to play for me. Even since I originally went there there's no joy, I can see the men on a panel but the screen turns black when I press play. What did the last guy say?

 

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Today we enter the sphere of everyone's favourite (pantomime) villain Adolf Hitler, not forgetting his "i was just following orders" cohorts. A shame then, that Stalin has been all but forgotten...

Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
~ Hermann Göering (born: 1893-01-02 died: 1946-10-15 at age: 53), President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
~ Joseph Goebbels (born: 1897-10-29 died: 1945-05-01 at age: 47), German Minister of Propaganda, 1933— 1945

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
~ Adolf Hitler

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
~ Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
~ Adolf Hitler

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
~ Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
~ Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
~ Adolf Hitler

If ever there was a symbol of a black hole right here on Earth, this guy was, & is it.

What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
~ Adolf Hitler

And how unfortunate it must be for rulers that there's Cassiopeia.org, & Signs Of The Times - the world for people who(do) think.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
~ Adolf Hitler

No matter what era it is, psychopaths in power (PIP) say this. They must really believe it too & it's really sad to see how as a species, we've been infected with the same disease; "I am speshul."

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
~ Adolf Hitler

Uh huh.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
~ Adolf Hitler

In other words, MIGHT IS RIGHT.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
~ Adolf Hitler

Er, ignorance endangers, knowledge protects?

Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.
~ Adolf Hitler

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith… We need believing people.
~ Adolf Hitler

And far too many people see faith/belief as knowledge.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell — and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
~ Adolf Hitler

Amazing. Simply. Amazing.

We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
~ Adolf Hitler

Magical thinking. Uncritical thought. Conversive language etc... One more from ol loony tunes, the "puppet masters" couldn't have said it any better - they probably told him come to think of it.

All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
~ Adolf Hitler (born: 1889-04-20 died: 1945-04-30 at age: 56), Mein Kampf

Next time, "dubya" on hurricane Katrina & more...

 

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see the video in sott article _http://www.sott.net/article/270823-Wells-Fargo-fraud-Opened-customer-accounts-without-consent . Listen to what the last guy has to say.

Could someone please help me out, that video refuses to play for me. Even since I originally went there there's no joy, I can see the men on a panel but the screen turns black when I press play. What did the last guy say?

some options. reset the machine and see it works.
try the original yahoo article _http://finance.yahoo.com/video/wells-fargo-allegations-fraudulent-activity-201600772.html
If still doesn't work, try another browser, if still doesn't work see what else consuming the resources in windows task manager, if it is windows. Unfortunately i don't see this video in you tube yet.

 

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Some end of the year pathological political quotes."Dubya" & co, on hurricane Katrina...

Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
George W. Bush, praising Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the morning after he revealed, in a network television interview, that he did not know about the thousands of people stranded at New Orleans convention center until a day after extensive media reports on the situation."The Steady Buildup to a City’s Chaos Confusion Reigned At Every Level of Government", Spencer S. Hsu and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, 2005-09-11.

Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?
Tom DeLay House Majority Leader, (R-TX), 2005-09-09 to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston.

Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse.
Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, 2005-09-04, blaming media coverage for the government’s failings, Meet the Press

You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals… many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold.
Wolf Blitzer, CNN (Cable News Network), 2005-09-01 on New Orleans’ hurricane evacuees.

I never could stand that guy.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.
Barbara Bush (born: 1925-06-08 age: 88), 2005-09-05, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston

The farcical Iraq "war" lies...

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof— the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2002-10-07, on evidence for Iraq’s non-existent nukes.

We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for missions targeting the United States.
George W. Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2002-10-07, on Iraq’s non-existent drones capable of launching an attack on the USA.

Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.
George W. Bush, 2003-03-17, Bush’s betrayal of the Iraqi people. 3 days later Bush attacked the residential parts of Baghdad with his terrorist Shock & Awe attack that was broadcast live on American TV.

We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re illegal. They’re against the United Nations resolutions, and we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.
George W. Bush, 2005-05-23, Interview of the President by TVP (Television Poland), Poland. If he found them, what happened to them?

The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities. We’re not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans. Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates.
George W. Bush, 2006-05-11

You know what the world needs? It needs more world leaders named Al Smith.
George W. Bush, on the difficulty of pronouncing names such as ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, Al Smith dinner, New York, 2000-10-20

You wouldn't believe the amount of times I hear this at work, & have to point out how wrong saying these kind of things are. Unfortunately, it's regularly a case of in one ear, out the other.

To those of you who receive honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say: you too can be president.
George W. Bush
(Bush got into Yale with only C grades, with a little affirmative action help from his dad. Bush has an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Harvard. A man who could not pass a grade 6 literacy test has an MBA. How on earth did he get it?)

You f**king son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.
George W. Bush to writer Al Hunt, in front of his wife and kids

Yes, if you heard the bombs falling, you’ll know that democracy is on the march in the Middle East.
George W. Bush, on the White House lawn

And that probably went unchallenged by the press. Of course.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
Tom DeLay (born: 1947-04-08 age: 66), rep, on the floor of the House of Representatives

There's probably people in the states getting less too. Pathological scuzz-bucket that guy. That's the idiot from above in the hurricane Katrina part. (asking child evacuees if they were enjoying themselves)

F*ck the Jews, they didn’t vote for us anyway.
James Baker (born: 1930-04-28 age: 83), Secretary of State

if Venezuelan president Chavez thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it
Pat Robertson(born: 1930-03-22 age: 83)

Incredible, & it reminds me of something similar from that 'O Reilly character on Fox, or CNN, whichever "psychopaths 'r us" network.

What do we need intelligence for? My answer to that is we have plenty of enemies. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism. These and more. Many more. To combat them we need more intelligence, not less. We need more human intelligence. That means we need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country. I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors…
George W. Bush, speech at the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence, 1999-04-26
He forgot to mention this contempt does not apply if the leaker is Cheney or Libby. Their high rank gives them to right to out any agent they please.

Sorry, what?! "George Bush Centre for Intelligence", that's got to be his dad surely. Then again I'm not sure which one is worse. "Pops" or junior.

We’re not going to have any casualties (in the Iraq war).
George W. Bush, 2003-03, to Pat Robertson.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators… I think it will go relatively quickly… [in] weeks rather than months.
Dick Cheney (born: 1941-01-30 age: 72),

Liberators, I've heard that a lot through history.

It’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.
Paul Wolfowitz (born: 1943-12-22 age: 70) 2003-02-27

Our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity… I live in a transparent country… where decisions made by government are wide-open.
George W. Bush, in Slovakia, 2005-02-24

!!!!!!!

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy — but that could change.
George W. Bush, 1998-05-22

The problem with the French is they don’t even have a word for entrepreneur.
George W. Bush, shooting from the hip, never having studied French unaware the word comes to English from French.Snopes, a right wing site, claims Bush’s statement is an urban legend.

I bet it's not.

We gave Hussein a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.
George W. Bush, on 2003-07-14 (forgetting about the U.N. inspector team lead by Dr. Hans Blix)

Compartmentalization. Gets ya every time.

That SOB (son of a b*tch) [Saddam] tried to kill my dad.
George W. Bush, 2002-09-27, reported by CNN
Funny, I could have sworn it was Bush Sr. dropping bombs on Saddam not the other way around.

:P

Bush the science major.

We need to understand if you let kindling build up and there’s a lightning strike, you’re going get yourself a big fire.
George W. Bush,in a lame attempt to make deforestation look like a way to stop forest fires, 2002-08-22. Poor George can only see a living forest as kindling.

Gas is — can only be transported by ship, though, when you liquefy it, when you put it in solid form.
George W. Bush, 2005-04-28, White House press conference, desperately trying to remember what his third grade teacher taught him about the three states of matter.

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
George W. Bush, speech in Trenton NJ, 2002-09-23
That would improve the temporary bottom line for the oil industry, but it makes America more dependent on foreign oil and hastens the depletion of oil and other energy resources. He offered a $10 billion gift to the oil companies to stimulate demand rather than a subsidy for conservation measures.

My energy policy encourages conservation.
George W. Bush in the second Kerry-Bush debate, 2004-10-08. Bush’s policies encouraged waste not conservation, e.g. a tax credit for people who buy large SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles).

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell.
George W. Bush, in the second Kerry-Bush debate, 2004-10-08. His excuse for allowing Chris Reeve (aka Superman) to die, because Bush thought transplanting stem cells was the same as killing them and that the rights of a few cells had priority over the rights of the colony of trillions of cells other wise known as Chris Reeve.

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

Some more quotes:

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.". George H. W. Bush told a White House reporter.

"If you wanna keep the peace, you gotta have the authorization to use force." George W. Bush

"I would never have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo". Harry S. Truman (1961). Probably telling a truth here.

"You do like me and do not get into politics." Francisco Franco Bahamonde, oligarchic dictator and fascist who ruled Spain for 40 years. Murderer of the second Spanish republic.

And a political-religious one:
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ". Phrase attributed to Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Médici).

 

[H-KQGE]

Thanks l apprenti de forgeron. Historical pathological (political) quotes are what I wanted to add for a while, but, there's too many to sift through! Just reading the "was Julius Caesar" thread shows how deep this goes so, i'll stick to more modern times. I'd prefer to grab some from the turn of the 20th century though, or just before. "Dubya" has got even more quotes (& his cronies) that I haven't added too. I'm pretty fed up with him.

 

[Mal7]

Quote from Robert McNamara (1916-2009) on the bombing of Japan at the end of WWII, from the transcript of the 2003 Documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Why was it necessary to drop the nuclear bomb if LeMay was burning up Japan? And he went on from Tokyo to firebomb other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. This was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, which by the way was dropped by LeMay's command.

Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve.

I don't fault Truman for dropping the nuclear bomb. The U.S.—Japanese War was one of the most brutal wars in all of human history ? kamikaze pilots, suicide, unbelievable. What one can criticize is that the human race prior to that time ? and today ? has not really grappled with what are, I'll call it, "the rules of war." Was there a rule then that said you shouldn't bomb, shouldn't kill, shouldn't burn to death 100,000 civilians in one night?

LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

- _http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html

And one more quote from McNamara from later in the transcript:

One of the lessons I learned early on: never say never. Never, never, never. Never say never. And secondly, never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. And quite frankly, I follow that rule. It's a very good rule.

 

[H-KQGE]

Thanks Mal7!

And one more quote from McNamara from later in the transcript:

One of the lessons I learned early on: never say never. Never, never, never. Never say never. And secondly, never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. And quite frankly, I follow that rule. It's a very good rule.

That last part I like to call a "Blair-ism" after Tony Blair. :(

 

[Tristan]

"Our valiant legionnaires and Regulares have shown what it is to be a man to the reds and their women who have finally known real men and not militiamen."

― Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, 1875-1951
Spanish Nationalist/Fascist General in charge of the Andalusia campaign of the Spanish Civil War

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."
― Hillary Clinton