Old Fogey's Quotes for Friday

"It's no secret that Barack Obama has a bright future. But make no mistake -- this guy is a work horse, not a show horse. He's fighting hard in the U.S. Senate for causes that benefit everyone -- not just those at the top."
Sen Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
Obama in Iowa: A Preview of 2008?
[This is for my daughter who already has an Obama for president bumper sticker]

"He's trying to protect his reputation at the risk of America's reputation."
Sen John McCain (R-Arizona), referring to CIA Director Michael V. Hayden's desire that he and his agents would be immunized against accusations of unlawful conduct in the proposed new strategies for interrogating and trying enemy combatants
Senators Defy Bush On Terror Measure
[The rubber stamp ink pad appears to be running out of ink]

“When your biggest customer says, ‘I ain’t buying,’ you rethink."
Hal Harvey, the environment program director at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in Menlo Park, Calif, referring to California's refusal to buy energy that produces high levels of greenhouse gases
In Gamble, Calif. Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases
[In the absence of any federal energy policy, it's up to the states to do the right thing, but how will all the states' righters react?]

“Whatever structure we have, we are going to speak out, we’re not going to be intimidated, we’re not going to be muzzled and we’re not going to be gagged.”
Troy Newman, Operation Rescue’s president, regarding the anti-abortion group's loss of tax exempt status
Anti-Abortion Group Loses Tax Exemption
[Oh, but wouldn't it be nice to stick a gag in that mouth, but hey, I'm for the first amendment, even for weasels]

"If we are going to be pro-life, we cannot say we are against abortion . . . and then let our children suffer in broken schools. We can't claim to be pro-life at the same time we are cutting support for Medicaid, Head Start or the Women, Infants and Children's Program."
Robert P. Casey Jr., the Democratic candidate seeking to unseat Sen. Rick Santorem (R-Pa.)
Candidate Speaks of Life, Faith
[Now here is an abortion foe who actually makes some sense. Can't we all work to make abortion as rare as possible, while taking care of the already born?]

"America is not tired of fighting terrorism. America is tired of the wrongheaded and boneheaded leadership of the Republican Party that has sent $6.5 billion a month to Iraq when the front line was Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, that led this country to attack Saddam Hussein when we were attacked by Osama bin Laden."
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), responding to charges of Democrats aiding and abetting terrorism
Democrats Meander in a New New Direction
[Think about what all that money could do to alleviate poverty, construct infrastructure, raise teachers' salaries, provide health care services, research alternative energy sources, and all those other things we Democrats are told that there's not enough money to do]