More Political Quotes of 2009

Again, courtesy of About.com…

• “I mean, we've got czars now. Czars like John Holdren, who has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.”—FOX News Channel’s Glenn Beck, taking past writings by Obama’s science and technology advisor, John Holdren, ridiculously out of context, “Glenn Beck Show,” July 22, 2009
• “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”—a protester at a health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., commenting on the government-created Medicare program, quoted by The Washington Post on July 28, 2009
• “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”—Obama, attempting to make the case for government-run health care, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
• “So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research…Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person…The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening.”—Glenn Beck on his radio show, “The Glenn Beck Program,” March 9, 2009
• “I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now…When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.”—Vice President Joe Biden, dispensing handy tips to protect against the swine flu and freaking us out, “Today Show” interview, April 30, 2009
• “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford was president, April 28, 2009
• “Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.”—a Twitter post by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), comparing the mass uprising of Iranians—utilizing Twitter as an organizing tool—to the GOP’s attempt to express dissatisfaction over Nancy Pelosi’s decision to adjourn Congress before an energy vote last year. In response, Twitter users mercilessly heckled Hoekstra en masse, turning his idiotic statement into a full-blown Internet meme. “To Hoekstra” acquired its own definition, meaning “to whine using grandiose exaggerations and comparisons.”
• “That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.”—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a pro-lifer who completely missed the irony of using the same slogan as the pro-choice movement in arguing against health care reform
• “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”—a July 31 editorial in Investor’s Business Daily warning about end-of-life counseling in health care reform. Hawking, in fact, lives in England and has been treated by their National Health Service, which, by his own account, saved his life