"This socialized medicine is the crown jewel of socialism. This will change our country forever."
—Michelle Bachman, on Fox News, November, 2009.
"They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God."
—Rep. Steve King, Glenn Beck Show on Fox News, March 18th, 2010
"Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they're making a suicide run here."
—Senator Lindsey Graham, March 18, 2010.
"Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook … Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate."
—Rush Limbaugh, August 9, 2009
"If ObamaCare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states — the Great War of Yankee Aggression."
—Rep. Paul Broun, March 18
"Congress would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."
—Betsy McCaughey, July 16, 2009
"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes."
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, Aug. 31, 2009
"To our seniors, I have a message for you: you're going to die sooner," if the health care bill passes."
—Sen. Tom Coburn, December, 2009.
"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
—Investor's Business Daily, July 31, 2009
"We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma."
—Sen. Chuck Grassley, Aug. 12, 2009
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide whether they are worthy of health care."
—Sarah Palin, Facebook, 2009
"When I’m drafting right-to-life language, I don’t call up the nuns."
—Rep. Bart Stupak, Fox News, March 20
"Faggots!"
—HCR Protestors, Capitol Hill, March 20, 2010
"Niggers!"
—HCR Protestors, Capitol Hill, March 20, 2010
"Go Back to Mexico!"
—HCR Protestors, Capitol Hill, March 20, 2010
"Go Back to Africa!
—HCR Protestors, Capitol Hill, March 20, 2010
"When Rush Limbaugh said he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests... Today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry."
—David Frum, March 21,200