Words of Churchill
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Notable Quotes
Excerpt of Obama’s anti-business speech
Obama’s speech of July 13
Posted July 20
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
“The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.”
Obama affirms commitment to state control of economy
Full text of President Obama’s speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, Dec. 6, 2011. Text supplied by the Guardian newspaper.
Well, I want to start by thanking a few folks who’ve joined us today. We’ve got the mayor of Osawatomie, Phil Dudley is here. We have your superintendent Gary French in the house. And we have the principal of Osawatomie High, Doug Chisam. And I have brought your former governor, who is doing now an outstanding job as secretary of health and human services – Kathleen Sebelius is in the house. We love Kathleen.
Well, it is great to be back in the state of Tex – [laughter] – state of Kansas. I was giving Bill Self a hard time, he was here a while back.
As many of you know, I have roots here. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the Obamas of Osawatomie. Actually, I like to say that I got my name from my father, but I got my accent – and my values – from my mother. She was born in Wichita. Her mother grew up in Augusta. Her father was from El Dorado. So my Kansas roots run deep. (more…)
Which way bloweth the wind in Massachusetts?
Remarks of Rep. Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas
“I just came from a hearing on natural resources, and we have somebody from Massachusetts, a Democrat, saying, you know, this is the way to go. We’ve got to pour more government money into these green programs — windmills, solar and of course there’s a lot of wind off Massachusetts. I don’t know which way the windmills face in Massachusetts — whether Massachusetts sucks or whether Massachusetts blows.
Whichever it does, there’s wind there, but that is not the answer to our energy problems. We’ve got oil, we’ve got gas, and if we’d use what we’ve got, we now know we can be energy independent.”