State Senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr. (D) NY
Between 1999 and 2005 Efrain Gonzalez Jr., 58, directed the state legislature to send grant monies to a Bronx charity, where a friend redirected the funds to a shell charity that was the senator's "conduit for paying personal expenses," the U.S. attorney's office said.
Gonzalez used the money to pay for New York Yankees tickets, jewelry, his daughter's college tuition, clothing, a cigar company in the Dominican Republic as well as member fees to a resort and rent for a luxury apartment there.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D)
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998-Truth!The text of this statement by Nancy Pelosi is posted on her congressional website.
Vice-President Al Gore (D)
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002-Truth!This and the quote below was part of prepared remarks for a speech in San Francisco to The Commonwealth Club.
Danny DeVito (D) Hollywood
"I didn't go [to the White House] after, you know, numb nuts," DeVito said, alluding to President Bush. ABC censors bleeped the phrase "numb nuts," but it was clear from reading DeVito's lips that was what he said."You know, we love him," Barbara Walters, co-host of the daytime talk show, said on Thursday's show. "We'll have him on again ... better sober than not."
Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger
Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger lifted a whole bunch of top secret documents, reportedly stuffed them in his pants and socks, misplaced some of the purloined items and says it was all an honest mistake
Julian Bond - NAACP Chairman
"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side."
Senator Tom Daschle (D) SD
"Not only did the tax cut fail to prevent a recession, as its supporters said it would, it probably made the recession worse,"
Senator Patty Murray (D) WA
"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
Bill Mahr - on Larry King Live
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I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn’t have to kill them for their oil.”