Quotables

‘I’ll give it to you. You have employed a lot of people, mostly as secretary of defense.’

Mock conservative host Stephen Colbert to President Barack Obama in a Dec. 8 “interview” on Comedy Central, after Obama spoke about job creation. Colbert is leaving the network to replace David Letterman next year on The Late Show at CBS.

‘Jonathan Gruber was pilloried today for being the most honest architect of this law.’

Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute on the Dec. 9 congressional hearing in which legislators grilled MIT economist Gruber, a key architect of Obamacare, over his comments that a lack of transparency and “the stupidity of the American voter” were important in passing the law (see p. 54).

‘It’s insane. We’re in hand-to-hand combat with other schools.’

Daniel B. Rodriguez, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law, on students bargaining down tuition prices at elite law schools. With enrollment at law schools plummeting over the past few years, students have more leverage to get better deals.

‘The one-sided report that will be released by Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence cost U.S. taxpayers over $40 million dollars to produce, and its authors never interviewed a single CIA official.’

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on a Senate report that claims the CIA misled the public, Congress, and the White House on its aggressive interrogation methods after 9/11.

‘These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie.’

Rolling Stone magazine, in a letter to readers, apologizing for not interviewing more sources for a November story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. The story didn’t interview any of the alleged attackers or check key facts. It caused the university to suspend all fraternities until next year but then began to unravel as many details were proven false. The magazine initially blamed alleged victim “Jackie” before acknowledging that it should have spoken to more sources.