Current Quotations and Quips

9 July 2004
"I think the day that President Bush drops Vice President Cheney will be a cold day in Gila Bend, Arizona."
-- Senator John McCain

"One of Bush's strengths is that he sticks to his guns. He would appear both weak and political to dump Dick Cheney, and he's not going to do that. It's not the way he operates."
-- Charles Black, Republican consultant

8 July 2004
"Dick Cheney can be president."
-- In a discussion about Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, President Bush implied that Edwards is too inexperienced to be a "heart beat" away from the presidency.

7 July 2004
"... if you're living in a European country, no matter what country it is, with the possible exception of Italy, you're not getting the truth."
-- Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, (erroneously) stating that the BBC, the Agence France-Presse, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are "government-controlled" but Italian media are free of government influence.

6 July 2004
"Guantanamo Bay is an anomaly that has at some point got to be brought to an end."
-- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

26 June 2004
"We in the UK have been unable to accept that the US military tribunals proposed for those detained at Guantánamo Bay offer sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international standards."
British attorney-general Lord Goldsmith on the US proposed military tribunals planned at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba