Quotes  from  around  the  world

"Al Gore is out and it is a bad day for American democracy."

"Democracy, quite simply, was poisoned to put George W Bush in the White House."
Britain's The Guardian

"The legal decision shows at the minimum that there is something rotten in the Florida of Jeb Bush."
France's Le Monde

"P.S. We are here."
London's Mirror
printed a globe with an arrow pointing to Britain, to show they know what an idiot the Supreme Court appointed.

"Because of Bush's linguistic deficiencies, inability to grasp complex issues and a deeply right-wing disposition unlikely to favour Africa."
Kenya's Daily Nation

"I hope he is not as stupid as he seems."

"Bush was not elected president, but appointed" and therefore why should the US bitch about Cuba not holding free elections?"
Fidel Castro

"By simultaneously destabilizing global security in China, Korea, the Middle East and Russia, by recklessly abrogating the Kyoto climate change treaty, by bullying his allies in Europe and Asia, by pursuing a tax policy that will turn America into the most unequal society in modern history, George W. Bush is fully living up to my expectation that he would become the worst U.S. President since Herbert Hoover."
Anatole Kaletsky,   London Times

"Thirty years [after the ABM Treaty was signed] Bush comes to the White House, with no substantial achievements to his name or experience of international affairs, and announces that the ABM treaty is no longer appropriate to the modern world and the US is going to pursue its dream of a missile defence system. The reaction around the globe to his speech contained a common element and that was indignation that the fragile structures and trust of the nuclear stand-off had been ended by a man with neither the intellect nor humility which this issue requires. Slim Shady and his chainsaw were now in charge of world peace."
Henry Porter,   The Guardian

"If ever proof were needed that we live in a global village, that is confirmed by George Bush - we now have our own global village idiot. There is a huge amount about which we can be more optimistic. But I will try not to mention George Bush because he is enough to send a shiver of fear down any optimist's spine."
Jonathan Porritt, a former chairman of the Green Party and Friends of the Earth.

"For us, Bush represents many things from our fascist past."
Lacha Hernandez, a teacher demonstrating outside the U.S. Embassy, Madrid

"A shallow, arrogant, gun-loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon."
a European administration official described it to the New York Times.

"Logically unsound, confused and unprincipled, unwise to the extreme."
Jiang Zemin, Chinese President

"George W Bush has abdicated the leadership role America once enjoyed. He has walked away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties like the Kyoto Protocol and ABM treaty, which, however imperfect, have helped bring peace and environmental protection. The least we can say is that he has embarked on a dangerous journey. Why?

The answer is corporate payback. This has been the defining trait of President Bush's administration. His election was a straightforward capitalist venture for the energy corporations. Oil, gas, coal and nuclear companies are the power behind Bush; together, they donated more than $50 million dollars to put him in the White House. As soon as he was elected, it was payback time and Bush declared the Kyoto Protocol on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions dead and buried.

The message was : 'US corporations have the right to pollute the entire planet. The people and the environment don't matter.'
Bianca Jagger,    The Guardian

"In our country, we wouldn't let judges pick the president. I know that in various nations, judges were in the pocket of executive officials -- I just didn't know that was so in the United States"
a Russian justice

Blast  from  the  Past

"The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy."
George Washington

"The patronage of public office should no longer be confided to one who uses it for active opposition to the national will."
Thomas Jefferson, 1804

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."
Disraeli, 1845

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A.J. Liebling, media critic

"You can fool all of the people some of the time;
You can fool some of the people all of the time;
But you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

"Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right."
Kipling

"You must have taken great pains, sir, you could not have been naturally so stupid"
Samuel Johnson

Nader  Rebuffed

"He [Nader] is, I believe, an authoritarian, a man on a white horse, and I for one, hope that he will never ride into the White House."
David Sanford, Nader's former editor, 1976

"Who's going to work with him now?"
Rep. John Conyers ( D-mi )

"We're not going to touch him with a 10-foot pole. He has divorced himself from the very ideals that made him a worthwhile political actor. He sold out his constituency."
Rep. Robert Wexler ( D-fl )

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