Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this country, as all of us know, faces very significant challenges these days. We have roughly 20 million people who woke up in America today without a job, who probably are out today looking for work and haven't found it yet. It is a pretty tough thing in a severe economic downturn--the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s--to find that you lost your job, and in some cases your home, and you have lost hope and you wonder what is next for you and your family. I suppose it is in keeping with our politics these days that, at a time when we face the most significant economic challenges since the Great Depression, if you stop and watch and listen and hear the sounds of democracy, which sound a little like fingernails on a blackboard sometimes, what you hear on the news is something about someone's dysfunctional behavior somewhere. Someone does something absolutely goofy, just a nutty activity, and all of a sudden, it is on the 24/7 news. In the last couple weeks, I have been traveling and hearing on the television, radio, and in print about some nut from Florida--apparently a minister with a church of 50 people--who decides he is going to burn the Koran. We heard about it every day, all day.…”