I nominate "We use our missiles to protect our people. They use their people to protect their missiles."
You nominate?
"What does it matter now?"
�The best way to predict the future is to invent it.� � Alan Kay
"If you like your insurance plan.....".
"most transparent gov't evah" BO
yep we see right through the BS you spew Mr. Prez
"we have to pass the bill to see what is in it" nasty piglosi
"The country is definitely better off than when I got into office" BO
"we have to pass the bill to see what is in it" nasty piglosi
good one Keith, hard to top.
i'm incredulous that we pay these people to say stupid chit like that?
and they make fun of Palin and leave this alone?????
it's evident we're outnumbered, via voting results.
but stupid people die easier
"Always have enough gun."
�Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.� � Babe Ruth
"My skills definitely lie more in the area of government than in the area of working." --attorney guy from the reality show Utopia
Or, particularly apropos for a consultant: "You pay a contractor so that you can tell him what to do. You pay a consultant so that he will tell you what to do."
McClain did not attack me on my Muslem faith.
Cynic: N; a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are rather than how they are supposed to be. - Ambrose Bierce
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. - Twain
ISIS is not Islam.
It was workplace violence.
Not one smidgeon of corruption, Bill
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. -Twain
I don't make jokes - I watch congress, and report the results.
Mark Twain
2003:
D Rumsfeld
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
OK - this one is from years back, from wolf control controversy here in Alaska.
Not only was it hilarious, but true. And my all time favorite.
"We can't just let Nature run wild!" Wally Hickle, Governor.
I don't make jokes - I watch congress, and report the results.
Mark Twain
Some of you guys are cheating. Using quotes that are not from this year.
For shame.
"The president thinks people are depressed because they don�t understand how good the economy is. Actually right now they are depressed because he is president."
Peggy Noonan
"The president thinks people are depressed because they don�t understand how good the economy is. Actually right now they are depressed because he is president."
Peggy Noonan
I post this not because it is Palin, but because I find it very Pithy...
"We can survive the Error of Obama; it�s almost over, and we can survive this President. The question is, can we survive the people who voted for him a second time?"
Sarah Palin just last week...
"I've spent the past month in Washington D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America."
� Cruz during a rally in his home state of Texas
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. -Twain
Moderation in all things; including moderation.
OK - this one is from years back, from wolf control ungulate enhancement controversy here in Alaska.
Not only was it hilarious, but true. And my all time favorite.
"We can't just let Nature run wild!" Wally Hickle, Governor.
There is a lot of people in this country i would like to strap to the missiles and bombs before we drop them on the Muslims in their country. Kill two birds with one stone as they say .
"What does it matter now?"
I think it's "What difference does it make now?"
I want you to ignore the fact that they died from my and Tyrant Obama the Liar's incompetence and betrayal.
I don't make jokes - I watch congress, and report the results.
Mark Twain
Some of you guys are cheating. Using quotes that are not from this year.
For shame.
Saw it quoted just last week! hehehe
"and when you kill the last one you go kill his pet goat."
In 2006, John Kerry said �You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don�t you get stuck in Iraq.� Now Kerry�s . . . stuck in Iraq. So, you know, you might want to be careful. . . .
From today's Instapundit.
Now it's my turn to apologize for wasting your time, Amigo.
Didn't know that you wanted a clunker.
I don't own clunkers.
Sorry!
Pithy don't quite cover it though.
"Hold my beer and watch this!"
I think that's a perennial.....
"Hold my beer and watch this!"
I think that's a perennial.....
I've witnessed the after effects of that statement. Darn near folded a Ford truck in half and not an ounce of beer spilt.
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry - USA Today (24 March 1989)
The good Dr Howell quietly pointed out to me, that I did not attribute the quote properly.
I should have (correctly) attributed that quote to Will Rogers.
Thank you my friend.
"The 'S' is silent." - Pareekshit Ravi
I should have (correctly) attributed that quote to Will Rogers.
I was thinking that, but was not sure enough to call you on it.
miles
"Memo to the GOP: Win the Senate, then enact an agenda and dare the president to veto it. Show the country what you stand for. Then take it to the nation in 2016."
By Charles Krauthammer
"After all is said and done, more will be said than done."
"No generalization is worth a damn, including this one."
"Damn fools! Can't even follow plain instructions!"
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- by Ken Howell, on respondents offering 'pithy quotes of the year' - from years long past by people long dead.