Category: Best Line of the Day

Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.

Best line of the day

“If a couple of lesbians or gay men want to get married, and they love each other, they should have the right to do that and enjoy all the legalities in our society that go along with that. I have no problem with that at all. I think that people who create these problems of homophobia and the likes of that do us a disservice. We are all human beings and one of the things that should motivate us, most of all, is love.”

Presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel

God Bless the Queen

The Queen and the Knave

If nothing else, Her Majesty has two things really going for her — her hats and “the look.”

As I said yesterday, after 54 years she’s learned to spot a knave.

Of course, you may click on the image for a larger version.

Best line of day, so far

“[Comey] has shown insufficient political savvy. The perception is that he has erred too much on the side of neutrality and independence.”

Unidentified DOJ official in 2004 quoted at Law.com. Comey is former Deputy Attorney General James Comey who testified about the DOJ mess last week.

Don’t you just hate it when justice is neutral and independent?

Thanks to Muddy for the tip.

Best line of the day, so far

“Say what you will about Reagan — Let me know when you’re done. OK? Good. We continue. — but he was never as gloomy as John McCain, as transparently phony as Mitt Romney, as feral as Rudy Giuliani, as earnest as Mike Huckabee, as pious as Sam Brownback, as futile as Tommy Thompson, as Out There as Ron Paul, or as monomaniacal as Tom Tancredo. Put all of these guys together on a stage and they don’t add up to Jack Kemp, for pity’s sake, let alone the Gipper.”

Charles Pierce at Altercation

Best lines about Madrid, New Mexico

These were provided by commenters to my item The spirited ghost town but I didn’t want them to be missed.

“There are no traffic lights or stop signs in the entire town, because they don’t want to be in the position of telling someone else what to do.”

“MA – drid doesn’t have any traffic lights YET…there is one in the works, they just haven’t decided what colors they’re gonna use…”

Best line of the day, so far

This is the fifth year of this war. As a matter of fact, next Tuesday is the anniversary of President Bush standing up on an aircraft carrier, playing dress-up with his flight suit, which he never wore in combat, trying to be the war hero he never was, and saying major combat over, mission accomplished. And later on he said, “Bring ’em on.” Well, they came on, surprise, surprise. Have killed over 3,300 young Americans and wounded over 30,000, and over half a million Iraqis have died.

I don’t want that kind of patience. It’s five years into this thing now. It’s time to end it, and it’s time to move on and worry about al Qaeda. That’s the real threat to this country.

Max Cleland on CNN