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In Their Own Words
Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite, Borough of Enfield, London, England, quoted by BBC News:
If you make the wrong decision after tonight, trust me, we are coming after you . . . .
We know who you are.
You might have 100 people in your gang — we have 32,000 people in our gang. It’s called the Metropolitan Police.
… Right. Look, man, you said it, not me.
(Via Lenin’s Tomb, via Charlie Davis 2012-02-11.)
(Via This Modern World 2008-05-28.)
Master GOP strategist Karl Rove
on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, 18 May 2008:
ROVE: But look. The Republicans have got three things they need to do strategically and three things they need to do tactically.
Strategically, they better get their act together with an aggressive agenda of reform here at home about the things people are talking around the kitchen table.
What are the Republicans going to do about health care? What are they going to do about providing reliable and affordable energy? What are they going to do about jobs and keeping our economy innovative and competitive, encouraging exports? What are we going to do about helping people grapple with the cost of college education?
We’ve got great answers, Republicans do, on this, but they better get their act together in laying this out in a comprehensive way.
Menelaus Pappy
O’Daniel and his son, Junior O’Daniel, in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000):
Pappy: Languishing! Languishing! Goddamn campaign is languishing! We need a shot in the arm! You hear me boys? In the goddamn arm! If the election held tomorrow, that goddamn Stokes would win it in a walk….
Junior: Well… he’s the re-form candidate, Daddy…
Pappy: Yeah?
Junior: Well, people like that re-form….
Hey! Maybe we should get us some!
Pappy: I’ll reform you, you soft-headed sonofabitch! How we gonna run reform when we’re the damn incumbent?