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I’m comfortable with what I did.

Former president George W. Bush, on Iraq. 

(h/t @DavidGrann)

# posted April 15, 2013
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The president did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip.

Press Secretary Jay Carney, responding to questions about rap lyrics that imply Obama cleared Jay-Z’s trip to Cuba.

“I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury,” Carney said, of the department in charge of travel licenses. 

# posted April 12, 2013
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If I were to have said, ‘Who do you think the founders of the NAACP are?’ . . . would everybody in here know they were all Republicans?
Sen. Rand Paul attempts to pop-quiz students during a visit to Howard University about the origins of the Republican Party. He added, “The argument I’m trying to make is we haven’t changed.” 
# posted April 11, 2013
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We’re in deep doo-doo.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on the crisis in North Korea. 

(from CNN)

# posted April 11, 2013
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I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) explaining a ‘divergence of evidence’ on global warming. 
# posted April 11, 2013
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I am not a prejudiced person…I have built Habitat homes for colored people.

County Commissioner Jim Gile of Saline County, Kansas, apologizing for using the term “n*gger-rigging.” Gile said he meant “jury-rigged.”

In his apology, “Gile said he also has a close friend whom he regards as a sister who is black,” the Salina Journal reported. “‘I don’t ever do anything bad and don’t know how to do anything bad. People know I am not,’ he said.”

# posted April 10, 2013
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Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in a 1975 conversation with a U.S. ambassador and two diplomats. 

The quote was unearthed by Wikileaks, when they published the world’s largest searchable collection of U.S. diplomatic communications late last night. 

(h/t Salon.com)

# posted April 08, 2013
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In Pakistan, things fall out of the sky all the time.
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to a CIA agent, explaining why it would be easy to keep the CIA’s drone strikes in Pakistan under wraps.
# posted April 08, 2013
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I probably should consider resigning from my position.
Mongolia’s deputy speaker of Parliament, Bayartsogt Sangajav, expresses regret after being confronted with evidence of an undeclared offshore company and Swiss bank account.
# posted April 04, 2013
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We used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes.

Rep. Don Young of Alaska, describing the immigrant laborers that used to work on his father’s ranch.

(h/t NBC News)

# posted March 29, 2013
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Same-sex marriage is very new… newer than cell phones or the Internet.
Justice Samuel Alito, wondering whether the SCOTUS case on same-sex marriage is too soon.
# posted March 26, 2013
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If you’re offended, Rep. Stockman suggests you tweet at his flak.

If you’re offended, Rep. Stockman suggests you tweet at his flak.

# posted March 21, 2013
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We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.
CIA’s chief technology officer Gus Hunt on the agency’s strategy for collecting digital intelligence. via Huffington Post
# posted March 21, 2013
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