Mehlman Quotes

#1. Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

Susan Estrich

#2. Another of the older views, and they are simply read out

Thomas S. Kuhn

#3. Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

Ken Mehlman

#4. There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.

Ken Mehlman

#5. There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.

William H. Macy

#6. There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

Laura Wilkinson

#7. I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

Ken Mehlman

#9. I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Ken Mehlman

#10. Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.

Ken Mehlman

#11. If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

Ken Mehlman

#12. Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

Ken Mehlman

#13. The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Ken Mehlman

#14. I drank a jar of coffee
And I took some of these

Mark E. Smith

#15. Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

Ken Mehlman

#16. The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Desmond Tutu

#17. We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

Ken Mehlman

#18. Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Sam Brownback

#19. While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

Ken Mehlman

#20. But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Ken Mehlman

#21. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

Jack Canfield

#22. For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Ken Mehlman

#23. If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

Ken Mehlman

#24. I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Ken Mehlman

#25. We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Ken Mehlman

#26. We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

Ken Mehlman

#27. I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

Ken Mehlman

#28. John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

Ken Mehlman

#29. Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.

Daniel O'Malley

#30. The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Barton Gellman

#31. Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#32. When a stoplight caught us, I found a strange amount of joy in putting my hands on hers, or resting my hand on her knee. She didn't seem to mind, and admittedly, I was pretty fucking close to heaven.

Jamie McGuire

#33. I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Joseph Force Crater

#34. The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.

Ken Mehlman

#35. If I had to sum up my philosophy of fuckness in a few words so I could cram it on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, those were the words I would have chosen: "Fuck it.

Andersen Prunty

#36. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

Ken Mehlman

#37. The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Ken Mehlman

#38. Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

Pharrell Williams

#39. Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

Ken Mehlman

#40. Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.

Ken Mehlman