Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack Kennedy in 1960, or for Richard Nixon...Those bastards are scarred forever, and I'm not. At least not for that. Hell, it was an honor to be able to vote against Richard Nixon - and it will be an honor on November 3 [1992] to vote against George Bush and everything he stands for.
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Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal ... PAUL BEGALA Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Today is a sad day for Maryland. Fifteen people decided to make a decision for 5 million people by n... GREG MASSONI Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process SOTONYE ANGA The American people deserve full disclosure, and that way, they will be able to judge for themselves... LARRY KLAYMAN The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and his imprecise talk about n... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It's really quite an honor for me to still be able to do this, 10 years later. If my autograph can m... DOMINIQUE MOCEANU To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go ou... ROBERT GRIFFIN III Students are residents, too. They need to have a voice. They need to get out and vote to prove they ... KAREN SNYDER George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, a... SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I v... GENE SIMMONS Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevel... DREW CAREY When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergat... RICHARD BEN-VENISTE We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor sho... MICHAEL KORDA In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, wa... JOHN N. MITCHELL Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. 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PAT PAULSEN It is an honor for us to be one of this year's headliners at the New England Metal and Hardcore fest... ANDREA FERRO If I had to vote now for immediate action against Iraq, I'd vote no, LARRY CRAIG Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Rich... JONATHAN KOZOL I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote f... NORM DICKS That crossover vote shrank ... fewer Democrats and independents bothered to vote for McCain because ... BILL SCHNEIDER If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. HENRY KISSINGER 33. Satan will attempt to offer you whatever you hunger for, whether it be money, power, sex, or pre... JAMES C. 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THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON