Lefty Tuesday-Ringo Starr

"Everything government touches turns to crap." as quoted by Ringo Starr, English musician singer, songwriter, actor, also known as Richard Starkey.

Left-handed and a musician; add him to the statistic of lefties who are artistic.

Stating the obvious

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." as quoted by Dan Quayle Vice President of the United States 1989-1993

Abraham Lincoln speaks for all the presidents

Yesterday was President's Day! I was looking around at quotes from some of our more memorable Presidents and ran across this quote from Abraham Lincoln. It's a quote that all Presidents can probably relate to

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." as quoted by Abraham Lincoln from The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.

Quotes from the candidates-Ron Paul

"The Constituions was written for one specific purpose and that was to restrain the goverment, not to restrain the people." as quoted by Ron Paul, candidate for the presidency.

Yes, I know I gave you a quote from him alread, however, I really liked this quote that I found..which came this morning. Therefore, consider it a bonus!

Quotes from the candidates-Ron Paul

"Yes [the federal governemnt] has a role to play, but it's a negative role...We want the people to be free. We don't want to manage people and tell them how to live." as quoted by Ron Paul, republican candidate for the Presidency.

Quotes from the candidates-Rudy Giuliani

"No matter what they media are saying, if the people on the ground are telling you we can win this, or we can succeed, or we need more time to succeed, you inclination has to be to go with that." as quoted by Rudy Giuliani republican candidate for the Presidency.

Quotes from the Candidates-Barack Obama

We continue on or quest to find quotes of the presidential candidates. Take them for what they're worth:

"I'm not running for president to conform to Washington's conventional thinking. I'm running to challenge it." as quoted by Barack Obama

Quotes from the Candidates-Duncan Hunter

To continue on our quest of quotes from the presidential candidates. When I began this quest, I had a goal to try and find "old quotes". Quotes from before they were candidates. That is really when you find their true desires. Alas, it is difficult. I continue to search, and will bring them to you as they come. However, todays is from the campaign trail:

"We are not going to give the money to aging hippies anymore to desecrate the crucifix or do other strange things," as quoted by California Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican candidate for President

Common Sense

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher." as quoted by Thomas Paine in Common Sense

Today is the date when Common Sense was first anonymously published 232 years ago (1776) in which he paid for the first printing and gained no money from publishing it ever as he donate the copyright to the states.