Notable Quotes, Volume 5

"Yes, Kerry is liberal. But what's to fear from a liberal president? That he would run big deficits? That he would increase federal spending? That he would expand the power of the federal government over individuals' lives? Nothing Kerry could do could top what President Bush has already done in those realms."

The Des Moines Register in their endorsement of Sen. John Kerry

"The only appeal that seems to work is a pragmatic one that relies on dollars and cents."

Dominic Chua, a 29-year-old Singaporean teacher, on winning rights for gays. Although Singapore’s government is notoriously homophobic and authoritarian, the country’s tourism industry is now actively courting gay dollars.

"For more than a decade, many of us fought long and hard to bring gays into the Republican fold, to defend the GOP, to advance conservative ideas in the gay community. Bush reversed all of it. Bush has done to gays nationally what Pete Wilson did for immigrants in California."

Gay writer Andrew Sullivan

"[Surviving Christmas] makes Gigli look like one of the crowning moments in [Ben Affleck's] career."

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News, about Ben Affleck's new film Surviving Christmas

"Surviving Christmas is exactly what's wrong with Hollywood: No one responsible for this thing seems ever to have lived outside the 310 area code or had a family or been lonely. It's the sort of stupid swill that gets spewed out by a studio committee, slapped together without a brain, a heart, or a good idea about where to put a camera or when to cut a scene. The finished product (calling it a movie would be like categorizing Spam as meat) is then pumped out to the megaplexes of America by a machine you can imagine only someone like the Grinch cranking."

Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe

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