Birth Certificate Quotes

• A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

  Donald Trump

  Imagination, Birth, Certificates

  "ABC Grills Trump With Tough Questions, Provided Softballs for Dem Candidates in 2007". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 19, 2011.

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Ernest Istook

  Iraq, Democracy, Eras

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Territory, Being There

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.

  Bob Dole

  Data, Identity, Immigration

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• What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Doe, Common

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• I don't know where [Obama is from] I don't think he's from where they issue birth certificates – I think he's from Hell.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Issues, Birth

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• The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

  Rickey Henderson

  Names, Firsts, Birth

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• On Fox News, Donald Trump said Obama's birth certificate could indicate that he's a Muslim. Trump said he doesn't trust anyone with a foreign-sounding name, and neither does his daughter Ivanka.

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, Names, Doe

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• I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Baby, Ugly, Causes

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• President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Japan, Korea, President

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• Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met Jesus - not in a church or on a camp or through people, but alone in my bedroom with an open Bible and a tangible revelation that the Son of God was not only real, but alive and awesome and stronger than the chains that bound me.

  Brooke Fraser

  Jesus, Real, Son

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• You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, College, Needs

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• I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they're saying, 'Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate.' And America saw that and said, 'I think I'll go with the calm black man.'

  Bill Maher

  Father, Gun, Men

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• I have people that have been studying Obama's birth certificate and they cannot believe what they're finding... I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can. Because if he can't, if he can't, if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility…then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Real, Believe

  "14 of Trump's most outrageous 'birther' claims - half from after 2011" by Gregory Krieg, edition.cnn.com. September 16, 2016.

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• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Sorry, Presidential, Birth

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• Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, President, Return

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• Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

  George Lopez

  Want, Birth, Certificates

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• In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.

  David Gelernter

  Children, School, Parent

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Donald Trump says that he will not run for president. You know why? He can't find his birth certificate.

  Jay Leno

  Running, President, Birth

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• I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Tired, Guilt

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• You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Travel, Government, Sea

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Years, Drug

  "Guatemalan President Praises Colorado and Washington for Marijuana Legalization at UN Speech" By Daniel Robelo, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

  David Letterman

  Friday, Years, Chinese

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