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 "It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten
war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world
where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it’s the
rights of immigrants to start a new life, or the rights of gays to marry, or
the rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a
world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight
relentlessly for every gain. You weren’t. But you are. And for that, I’m
sorry."— From New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s May 21 graduation address at the State University of New York at New Paltz, shown on C-SPAN May 27. Runners-up: |
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Co-host Rosie O’Donnell: "As a result of the [9/11] attack and the
killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed
innocent people in their countries." Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "But do you understand that, that the belief funding those attacks, okay, that is widespread. And if you take radical Islam and if you want to talk about what’s going on there, you have to-" O’Donnell, interrupting: "Wait just one second. Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam [loud applause] in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state. We’re a democracy." — Exchange on ABC’s The View, September 12. |
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"I don’t support our troops....When you volunteer for the U.S. military, you
pretty much know you’re not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and
Canada. So you’re willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American
imperialism, for better or worse....I’m not advocating that we spit on
returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn’t be
celebrating people for doing something we don’t think was a good idea." — Los Angeles Times columnist and former Time staff writer Joel Stein in a January 24 column. |
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