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Here are a lot of quotes that were removed from the Wikipedia article on Ann Coulter. I'll dump them here because I don't want to sort them all out. —Jeremy Hanson 1 July 2005 22:46 (UTC)

The following quotes are examples of Ann Coulter's flamboyant and often inflammatory polemical style, for which she is well-known. They cover a wide variety of topics, but each demonstrates Coulter's unwillingness to compromise her strong views for political correctness or media palatability. Many view these quotes as examples of a tongue-in-cheek use of hyperbole or satire, while others take them more seriously. Coulter herself once stated, "Liberals love to pretend they don't understand hyperbole." However, she has also stated, "I believe everything I say." 

On the 9/11 attacks

 * Two days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, her syndicated column included discussion of her close friend Barbara K. Olson, who was killed on American Airlines Flight 77 when terrorists crashed it into the Pentagon. She closed by saying:  "We know who the homicidal maniacs are.  They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.


 * "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers.  We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians.  That's war.  And this is war."  - From her syndicated column We should invade their countries September 13, 2001


 * A week later, she detailed a five-point plan guided by an "all-new standard for airline safety procedures:...procedures that [actually] make the airplane safer" of which point 3 proposed requiring "passports to fly domestically". "Passports can be forged", she continued, "but they can also be checked with the home country in case of any suspicious-looking swarthy males".  Point 4 observed, "All 19 hijackers in last week's attack appear to have been aliens....  [Legally,] Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave."  From her syndicated column, Where's Janet Reno when we need her? September 20, 2001

9/11 widows
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 * From Godless: "And by the way how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they better hurry up and appear in playboy"

On the environment

 * "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use.  God said so:  Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet -- it's yours.  That's our job:  drilling, mining and stripping.  Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view.  Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars -- that's the Biblical view." - from her column "Oil Good; Democrats bad" October 12 2000

On law and order

 * "I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention.  And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly." - MSNBC March 22, 1997.


 * "I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more."  Asked how far back in time would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal....[After someone suggests the time when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued] That would be a good start." - Politically Incorrect May 7, 1997.


 * "If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman." The gunman was a teenager who had opened fire on a prayer meeting, killing three other teens. She later added, "Don't pray. Learn to use guns." - Politically Incorrect, December 18, 1997.


 * "The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail." - Fox News, Hannity & Colmes August 24, 2001.

On government

 * "My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism." - MSNBC February 8, 1997.


 * "I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, August 17, 1997.

On public "safety nets"

 * "Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security.  The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal." - WorldNetDaily, December 2, 2003.

On women

 * "Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do." &#8211; Cornell Review, 1984, reported in Time, April 2005.


 * "Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is.  They're whores." - Salon.com November 16, 2000


 * "I think [women] should be armed but should not vote ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care." - Politically Incorrect, February 26, 2001.


 * "It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.  In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted." -  May 17, 2003.


 * "Like the Democrats, Playboy just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children." - How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), 2004


 * "How many people have to die before the country stops humoring feminists? Last week, a defendant in a rape case, Brian Nichols, wrested a gun from a female deputy in an Atlanta courthouse and went on a murderous rampage.  Liberals have proffered every possible explanation for this breakdown in security except the giant elephant in the room -- who undoubtedly has an eating disorder and would appreciate a little support vis-a-vis her negative body image." - "Freeze! I Just Had my Nails Done!" WorldNetDaily March 16, 2005.

On the media

 * "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." - in a New York Observer interview August 26, 2002.


 * "Of course I regret [the previous quote]. I should have added 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.'" - in a rightwingnews.com interview June 26, 2003.


 * "The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?" How to Talk to a Liberal, 2004.

On liberalism

 * "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too.  Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." - at the Conservative Political Action Conference February 26, 2002.


 * "Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do.  They don't have the energy.  If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now." - (from Slander, pp. 5-6; published June 2002).


 * "Ironically, for all of [liberals'] love of conspiracy theories — the rigging of the 2000 election, vote suppression in Ohio in 2004, 9/11 being an inside job, oil companies covering up miracle technology that would allow cars to run on dirt, Britney Spears' career, etc., etc. — when presented with an actual conspiracy of Soviet spies infiltrating the U.S. government, they laughed it off like world-weary skeptics and dedicated themselves to slandering Joe McCarthy." (McCarthyism: The Rosetta Stone of Liberal Lies, November 8, 2007)

On Bill Clinton

 * "If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country." - George, July, 1999.


 * "We're now at the point that it's beyond whether or not this guy is a horny hick. I really think it's a question of his mental stability. He really could be a lunatic. I think it is a rational question for Americans to ask whether their president is insane."---Equal Time.


 * "Clinton is in love with the erect penis."---This Evening with Judith Regan, Fox News Channel, June 2, 2000.

On religion

 * "The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages -- it's much like The New York Times editorial board.  They acknowledge the Ten Commandments -- or "Moses' talking points" -- but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone." - from column "The Jesus Thing" January 7, 2004.


 * "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed')." - from her column (at townhall.com)March 4, 2004.


 * "The Times was rushing to assure its readers that 'prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.' (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible)" - How to Talk to a Liberal, 2004.

—Jeremy Hanson 1 July 2005 22:46 (UTC)