Wednesday, December 31, 2008

"Yes we Can"--Some interesting quotes of 2008


“Change has come to America." -- Barack Obama

“Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it has about 18 million cracks in it.”-- Sen. Hillary Clinton

“Can I explain to you what happened? First of all it happened during a period after she was in remission from cancer.”—John Edwards

“I made a mistake.”-- Alan Greenspan, Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve who preached deregulation

"If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up." -- Former Gov. Jesse Ventura on politics and organized religion

"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."--John Carlin

“Good people sometimes make bad decisions. This is not just a bad decision. This is a crime.”-- US District Judge Kenneth Marra while sentencing PB County Commissioner, Warren Newell.

"Thank you all for coming," he told them, then paused to kiss his former law partner, Alan Ciklin, on the cheek. "I love you all."--William Boose after getting sentenced 2 years in Federal prison for corruption

"There's no intent, it was nothing willfully done. This was just a mistake."-- Commissioner Retha Lowe responding to the Florida Elections Commission on finding her guilty of knowingly filing false campaign reports.

“I'm so confused.”--Commissioner Retha Lowe on just about anything discussed on the dais.

“You mean all you have to do is turn on a switch?”-- Newly elected Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill after visiting the West Palm Beach Water connect and learning that we can get extra WPB water for nothing (no capital outlay) compared to PB County water costing us an estimated $21 million dollars.

“I'll never drink West Palm Beach Water.”--Mayor Jeff Clemens who then votes to spend $21 million of our money unnecessarily and votes to burn $14 million dollars we have already put into our own Reverse Osmosis System