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“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You need to intervene here,’ you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame-retardant. You take action. The planet has a fever.”

- Former Veep Al Gore, Urg[ing] Congress to Take Action on Climate Change

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“We’ve got a problem, and it will not be solved only by changing which party has power. Our government at every level is full of people who don’t recognize discrimination when it hits them in the face—or when it comes up for a vote or a court ruling. We must seek out individuals, not parties, who have the courage to run, and who understand the government’s interest in tolerance, liberty, privacy and equality—not procreation. We have enough people—let’s focus on treating them fairly.”

- NOW President Kim Gandy, in her Below the Belt Column, 8/1/06

“Abortion: never an easy choice, sometimes the best choice, always a woman’s choice.”

- One “laurahcory,” in response to Salon’s piece on a godbaggin’ douchebag who penned a zealously deadpan attack on the author of a 7-year-old editorial entitled “I’m Totally Psyched About This Abortion!” Which was published in The Onion. I shit you not. Really. Links available at said Salon piece. Because I refuse to link to anyone that stupid.

“If we accept the anti-choicer’s claim that the zygote is a baby at the moment of fertilization, and the abortion rate is about 46 million per year world wide, and the number of live births is approximately equally to the number of spontaneous abortions, and the number of babies born last year was about 80 million…that means God killed almost twice as many babies as the abortionists did last year. That psychopathic bastard.

“I want to see the anti-choicers start picketing churches instead of abortion clinics.”

- PZ Myers, commenting on this paper in “That great and arbitrary abortionist in the sky”

Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs:

“[M]y Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?”

Jamie Raskin, professor of law at American University:

“Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”

 
 
(Overheard at a March 1, 2006 hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage in the state of Maryland.)

Source: Snopes.com