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  • "Self-defense reform is real health care reform." - Chris Cox
  • “Fraud is in the culture of Iraqis. I believe that is true in the state of Louisiana as well.” – Larry Craig in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
  • “What the Obama administration and Muslims will not tell Americans is that the ultimate goal of Islam is to take over the world and replace representative, constitutional governments with Shariah.” – Ted Nugent
  • “You will recall that over the years [military dictator] Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship.” – Oliver North
  • “There wouldn't be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouth shut.” – Wayne Anthony Ross
  • "Three men marrying? Two men and a woman? If everyone can marry, then no one can marry, thus ending marriage as we know it.” - Ken Blackwell
  • "There is one thing we could do that would make a small contribution to lowering temperatures [to address climate change]: We could bury, not burn, the bodies of unborn children who have been aborted under [Obama’s] health care takeover." - Ken Blackwell
  • “If a guy can’t rape his wife, who’s he gonna rape?” – Wayne Anthony Ross
  • “In America today, there are two kinds of black people—the field hand blacks and the house niggers. We of CORE, the nationalists—are the field hand blacks. The integrationists are house niggers.” – Roy Innis
  • "Well, my friends, it looks like we had better put in a good supply of powder and lead!!!!" - Jay Printz on the election of Barack Obama as President
  • "Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up." - Jeff Cooper
  • “Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.” – Grover Norquist
  • “Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin’ dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces.” – Ted Nugent
  • “Foreigners are assholes, foreigners are scum. I don't like 'em. I don't want 'em in this country.” – Ted Nugent
  • "What the Republicans need is fifty Jack Abramoffs. Then this becomes a different town." - Grover Norquist
  • “Over my dead body will I let this current regime [the Obama administration] continue in their abuse of power.” – Ted Nugent
  • “The black guys with this rap, electronic, make-believe, talentless music makes me want to throw up.” – Ted Nugent
  • “This bill seems to give extra rights to a group [gays] whose lifestyle was a crime only a few years ago, and whose beliefs are certainly immoral in the eyes of anyone with some semblance of intelligence and moral character.” – Wayne Anthony Ross
  • "It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous—and black." - Jeff Cooper
  • "[W]atching the cops pounce on and pepper-spray a few Occupy stooges and then drag the dirtballs off to jail in shackles is good for my conservative soul and gold for my sense of humor." - Ted Nugent
  • “Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal.” – Ted Nugent
  • "It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.” - Jeff Cooper
  • “It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.” – Larry Craig
  • "The black community was vibrant and strong 60 years ago. This is not the case today." - Ted Nugent
  • "[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it." - Jeff Cooper
  • “[Ugandan dictator Idi Amin] has the ability to make decisions, unlike other leaders who theorize but do not execute.” – Roy Innis
  • “Sarah Brady [the wife of Jim Brady, who was shot and gravely injured in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan] is a dirty whore.” – Ted Nugent
  • "Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread." - Jeff Cooper
  • "It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence." -Jeff Cooper
  • “I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex. I think it's against nature. I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are I love ya.” – Ted Nugent
  • "Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting." - Jeff Cooper
  • "We can't treat [Seattle mass shooter Ian Stawicki] like a child. He's got his own life to live and he can make his own mistakes no matter how horrific those mistakes turn out to be." -Dave Workman
  • "If 'marriage equality' is the real goal, then three or four marital partners are even more equal than two." - Ken Blackwell
  • “By his own admission, Grover [Norquist] couldn’t be any closer to [convicted lobbyist Jack] Abramoff if they moved to Massachusetts and got married.” – Mark Salter on Grover Norquist
  • “I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War" - Ted Nugent
  • “I choose to own a gun because I am a good mother.” - Maria Heil
  • “The definition of Islam is subjugation.” – Ted Nugent
  • "The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average." - Jeff Cooper
  • “If I’m taking a shower in an open shower bay, the last thing I want is some guy looking at me having sexual fantasies.” – R. Lee Ermey
  • "[S]lavery has been the normal condition of mankind for most of history. What do you do with the losers? You either kill them outright or put them to work." - Jeff Cooper
  • “A woman who cannot cook, like a man who cannot shoot, is in important ways incomplete." - Jeff Cooper
  • "Sorry, Mr. Jefferson, but all men are not created equal. ('All ya gotta do is look.')" - Jeff Cooper
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