There is nothing unusual about [Texas] Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today's [US] Republican Party is this: In any other party and in any other country, an individual may occasionally rise to the top in spite of being an uneducated ignoramus. In today's Republican Party "in spite of" is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory.– Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author
The world is burning! Whatever we've grown to think is solid and strong and durable is under siege. The threats are mounting! The evil is growing! Darkness is falling!– Former Fox News presenter and extreme neo-conservative rabble rouser Glenn Beck proves the point
Women who have been assaulted often worry, with reason, about being victimised a second time in court. And those with problematic backgrounds must feel confident that they can demand and receive justice.– New York Timeseditorial comment on the dropping of rape charges against former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn
We are all Libyans. This revolution is for all Libyans. The wealth is for all Libyans and it will be redistributed for all Libyans equally.– Libyan rebel leader and ruler-in-waiting Mustafa Abdel Jalil
Do not leave Tripoli to those rats! Kill them! Defeat them quickly! The enemy is delusional; Nato is retreating . . .– Audio message from Col Gadafy, whereabouts unknown, after his compound in the Libyan capital was overrun by rebel forces
. . . deeply bizarre and deeply creepy.– Victoria Nuland, US state department spokeswoman, on the finding, in the Gadafy compound, of an album of photographs of former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice