James Lileks Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.

  James Lileks

  Girl, Golf, Class

• All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

  James Lileks

  Needs, Politics, Pistols

• And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

  James Lileks

  Country, Years, Bangs

• Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause.

  James Lileks

  Mean, Blood, Names

• From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

  James Lileks

  Gum, Politics, Hull

• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

• Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

  James Lileks

  Cells, Politics, Best Place

• It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

  James Lileks

  Hate, Mustache, Looks

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