The right wing is not where America is at.

Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate. They hate. They exist in the politics of hate.

They're not patriots.

They're hate-triots, and they believe in the politics of hate-triotism. Hate-triotism is where they stand, and patriotism is where real Americans stand.

It's all over but the voting.

They're not going to go without a fight.

and believe me, they are better fighters than we are.

I mean, they are up at six in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they're going to screw today.

The hate, they eat for breakfast. They are going to fight and they are going to smear, and they are going to lie, and they are going to hate.

by Michael Moore *
Producer, director, author

Carried a home movie camera to record his exploits for later viewing.

Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film.

Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns.

by John O'Neill *
Kerry’s Relief as a swift-boat commander

On February 28, 1969, now in charge of PCF 94, Kerry came under fire from an enemy location on the shore. The crew's gunner returned fire, hitting and wounding the lone gunman. Kerry directed the boat to charge the enemy position. Beaching his boat, Kerry jumped off, chased the wounded insurgent behind a thatched hutch, and killed him. Kerry and his crew returned within days, armed with a Super 8 video camera he had purchased at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the skirmish on film.

by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson *
Author

I cannot apologize for being a protector of my people.

Sacrificing Angelo de la Cruz would have been a pointless provocation. It would have put the lives of 1.5 million Filipinos in the Mideast at risk by making them a part of the war.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo*
on her SONA

The real state of the nation is one of extreme poverty, escalating political repression, more taxes, more economic burden and no immediate relief for the people.

spokesman Renato Reyes*
leftist group Bayan told The Associated Press

We appeal for sobriety... Let's have a peaceful SONA. We're here to protect everybody. We guarantee freedom of assembly. But as law enforcers, we can't allow abuses.

Director Ricardo de Leon*
National Capital Region Police Office

The elaboration of [Ms Arroyo's] 10-point program during her SONA would only be a rehash of her old and tired promises of the last three years.

secretary general Leody de Guzman*
Buklurang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas

Isn't this a bit sneaky? Why? Because the President never mentioned her plan to impose a new round of taxes during her campaign. On the contrary, she deliberately avoided them. We are hearing them for the first time.

The President cannot claim that her election is an endorsement of her tax proposals.

Now she sings a different tune: times are bad so we have to bite the bullet.

Senator Joker Arroyo*

We are a bit wary about the new taxes that she may announce in her Sona. Congress needs to pass at least three of eight priority tax bills in the next six months to help raise about P60 billion in additional revenues.

Jovis Vistan*
AB Capital Securities

I'm feeling like my body is light. It's the best I've probably felt as far as energy in 10 years.

It was like a whitish-blue, but it was so bright.

I actually heard the snap, but I was paralyzed. It was like my whole body was just vibrating. It was like, a hell of a sensation. It was like chest pain, with someone's hand on my chest.

My knees buckled. I was able to straighten out.

Then I was dumbfounded. Just dumbfounded.

by John Corson (56) *
Ordinary Citizen

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

by Benjamin Franklin
American Statesman, Author (1706-1790)

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, it's too crowded.

by Yogi Berra
Baseball Player, Coach

Our foreign policy has not changed... We share the same goal but may not always walk on the same path.

It won't take more than three lines to summarize my case, and let me say these three lines: One, I take sole responsibility. Two, I make no apologies. Three, I stuck to my oath.

This is not a tale about politics. It is about human survival and diaspora, about poverty and families being torn apart, and our will and resolve to bring food to every table.

And as Angelo comes home, I am not about to bare a bleeding heart to defend my position.

I trust that our allies will come to understand that the Philippines is in a special circumstance.

Ms Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo*
in a speech at the 106th founding anniversary
of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)

It would be sheer hypocrisy if the administration will pretend that it's 'business as usual' in our dealings with the United States and we have nothing to worry about.

The advice of Congress becomes all the more necessary in the light of the plan of the United Nations to invite its member-states to help in forming an international peacekeeping force in Iraq that will supplant the troops belonging to the US-led coalition of the willing.

Sen. Aquilino Pimentel*

It is heartening to know that the government has adopted a foreign policy that will give importance to our OFWs, who have made valuable contributions to our country's progress.

Sen. Manuel Villar*