"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

"George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself."
— Margaret Cho

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
— Edward R. Murrow

"What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender."
— Terry Jones

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
— George W. Bush

"President Bush, have a hot dog with me."
— Stephen Colbert

""George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history.""
— Helen Thomas

"White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot."
— Denis Leary

"If the ass of Jesus be taken to Mekkah
He will on his return still be an ass. "
— Sa'di (The Gulistan of Sa'di)

"When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation."
— Al Franken

"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."
— George W. Bush

""It will take time to restore chaos""
— George W. Bush

"Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent."
— Scott McClellan (What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington)

"Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. ... The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law."
— Justice Anthony Kennedy

"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house."
— Saddam Hussein

"In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,
judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's
order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'"
— William Safire

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."
— George W. Bush

"Indee, when i came to Italy, i expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is--we have one, too.""
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Senator Kerry carries shrapnel in his thigh, as distinct from President Bush, who carries two fillings in his teeth from his service in the Alabama National Guard, which seems to be his only time that he showed up."
— John Podesta

"JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history."
— Michael Dobbs (One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War)

"I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully."
— George Bush