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Lucifer in the flesh. … I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking at Stanford University, when asked for his opinion of Ted Cruz.
# posted April 28, 2016
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If any future president wants (the) CIA to waterboard anybody, he better bring his own bucket, because CIA officers aren’t going to do it.

Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden, responding to Donald Trump’s comments on torture and waterboarding, via PRI

Read Trump’s comments on waterboarding here.

# posted March 01, 2016
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I don’t know, did he endorse me? Or what’s going on. Because I know nothing about David Duke.

Donald Trump, February 2016. 

Here’s Donald rejecting David Duke and his Reform Party in February 2000: "The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.“

# posted February 29, 2016
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There are those who contend that it does not benefit African­-Americans … to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less­-advanced school, a less ­­– a slower-­track school where they do well.  One of … the briefs pointed out that … most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.

Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, during oral arguments for Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin

Corrected Dec. 20, 2015: We’ve corrected this post to include Justice Scalia’s full comment, which clarifies that he was quoting from briefs filed in the case and not necessarily expressing his own opinion.

# posted December 09, 2015
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What exactly is a “real” black president? Rupert apologized this morning.

What exactly is a “real” black president? Rupert apologized this morning. 

# posted October 08, 2015
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It is unacceptable that The Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the U.K. are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between police and civilians. That is not good for anybody.
FBI Director James B. Comey complaining about the lack of federal data on police use of force via The Washington Post
# posted October 08, 2015
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That’s the culture they have. They hit each other.
A Brooklyn judge sentenced an ex-con to time served for assaulting two women, who he referred to as “so-called victims” who “are not angels themselves.” (via New York Daily News)
# posted September 29, 2015
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I don’t think dignity is guaranteed in the Constitution.
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis defending her decision to defy the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling (via ABC News)
# posted September 22, 2015
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I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.
Donald Trump, 1991. Here are 46 other Trump-isms, via Politico.  
# posted August 14, 2015
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They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
A week after Donald Trump proposed blamed Mexico for “not sending their best” immigrants, Univision said it would not be airing the Miss USA pageant next month 
# posted June 25, 2015
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We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.
#SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the dissent to the 6-3 decision on King v. Burrell case that upheld health care subsidies for those in states that did not set up exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
# posted June 25, 2015
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Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.
Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt, who resigned from University College London after his criticism of women scientists prompted a backlash. But not before doubling down on his concerns about tears getting in the way of “absolute truth” in an interview with the BBC. 
# posted June 11, 2015
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I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joking about how he might have approached being transgender in high school (via BuzzFeed). 

“You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous,” he continued. Watch full video (remarks begin around 18:20).

# posted June 02, 2015
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