Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Top Ten Quotes of 2010

"Our campaign has not come to a stop. This will be a long battle." -- Wang Chen, head of China's State Council Information Office, referring to his country's Internet crackdown.
"He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands, Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qa'ida and Taliban leaders?" -- Sarah Palin on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

"Whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty." - Mike Huckabee, US republican party presidential hopeful, on leaking of documents to WikiLeaks.
"The Internet's completely over...All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you." -- Prince, on his plans to withhold online distribution of his new album and instead include it, free, in British newspapers.


"I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do." -- George W. Bush, writing in his new memoir, Decision Point, that he still feels bad no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. Well atleast we know george felt a little bad and sick from being the head puppet of the biggest terrorists that have ever lived.

"Israeli government policies are not supported by all Jews." -- Richard Kuper, member of group Jews for Justice for Palestinians, which sent supply boat to blockaded Gaza Strip. It was intercepted by Israeli forces.

"We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. The cost to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blilghted by the absence of jobs, will be immense." -- Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist.

"It's been a while." -- Leon Panetta, CIA Director, answering question about when US last 'had good intelligence' on whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. (I wonder why? maybe because his family already had his funeral years ago because he's dead, and was pretty much a CIA employee at one point.)

"The crisis is not over. We are at the next stage. This is where we move from a private to a public debt. We socialized part of the private debt by bailing out financial institutions...But public debt is never a free lunch. Eventually We have to pay for it." -- Nauriel Roubini, the Dr. Doom of economics, who was first to predict the recession.

This isn't about a lie, or a conspiracy, or a deceit, or a deception. It's a decision." --Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, on his choice to go to war in Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein.

What quotes would you add to this list?