1. “Discovering a cure for cancer will only change which way you’re going to go.”
—Representative Earl Landgrebe (Republican, Indiana) who voted against giving
money to cancer research. (His most famous line is, “Don’t confuse me with the
facts.”)
2. “I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money.”
—Rick Santorum, on Jan. 1, 2012, taking a dig at those who he says abuse the welfare and Medicaid systems.
3. “You can't just let nature run wild.”
—Alaska governor
Walter Hickel (Republican), endorsing a state-wide slaughter of wolves.
4. “Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the
sanctity of human life.”
5. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer,
liquidate real estate ... people will work harder, live a more moral life.
Values will be adjusted and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from
less competent people.”
—Andrew Mellon (Republican), U.S. treasury Secretary of
the Treasury in 1931, giving Herbert Hoover advice about what to do about the
Great Depression—namely, nothing. (Hoover fired him.)
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