Politi-quotes: The week in one-liners
By PATRICK GAVIN
Updated 9:16 AM PDT, Sat, Aug 22, 2009
The week's top 10 best quotes in politics:
"Michelle Obama: The Shorts Heard Round the World" — A headline in TIME magazine following the first lady's decision to — gasp! — wear shorts.
"Yes She Can! 59% of Readers Say Michelle Has Right To Wear Shorts" — A Huffington Post headline on the same topic.
"I know George Bush, and he's no Barack Obama." — Vice President Joe Biden, at a fundraiser
"My boyfriend is pretty sure." — Rep. Jared Polis, responding to a question posed by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert on whether he's sure he's gay.
"You look real cleaned up. I thought you'd be in your sweats." — President Barack Obama to radio host Michael Smerconish before their interview Thursday.
"I will never vote for a bill to kill old people, period." — Rep. Mike Voss to CNN's John King.
"You know, I'm not the most civilized person: Those kind of people, I usually took behind the woodshed and just beat the livin' tar out of 'em." — Joe Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe The Plumber", referring to Nancy Pelosi and criticizing her for saying that, when teabaggers drown "out opposing views", it's "un-American."
"Free pie for everybody." — Britney Spears, telling David Letterman how the country would be different if she were president.
"Isn't it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?" — Rush Limbaugh, after Frank asked a rowdy town hall question what planet she lived on.
"I put up a picture of myself with priests, and the majority of the feedback is about my boobs. ...great. my apologies to the priests." — Meghan McCain, Twittering.
Copyright Politico
First Published: Aug 22, 2009 5:31 AM PDT
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