"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" -- Senator Joe Biden

" Fort Mill (SC) Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”
--Stuart Watson in the Charlotte Observer

"We must in all seriousness ask if Barack Hussein Obama could be a Muslim terrorist sympathizer or a Marxist mole. His closest friends include Communists, domestic and Muslim terrorists, racists and convicted felons."
--Victoria Jackson, on her website

"McCain was 'in the middle of' the Keating Five case in the sense that he was exonerated. The lawyer for the Senate Ethics Committee wanted McCain removed from the investigation altogether, but, as The New York Times reported: 'Sen. McCain was the only Republican embroiled in the affair, and Democrats on the panel would not release him.' So John McCain has been held hostage by both the Viet Cong and the Democrats." -- Ann Coulter, on her website.

"How about Sarah Palin last night? Viva la barracuda!" --John McCain

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America." -- Sarah Palin

"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking." Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan - Feb. 24, 2008

"In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism."
--Peggy Noonan in the Wall St. Journal