Christine O'Donnell Quotes

Christine Therese O'Donnell is a former Republican Party candidate and conservative activist in the Tea Party movement best known for her 2010 campaign for the United States Senate seat from Delaware vacated by former Vice President Joe Biden.

O'Donnell was born in Philadelphia and began her career as a public relations and marketing consultant in the early 1990s. After attending Fairleigh Dickinson University, O'Donnell was active in Republican organizations and campaigns. She also worked for such organizations as Enough is Enough and Concerned Women for America. Later, O'Donnell established her own consulting firm.

With strong financial support from the Tea Party movement, she defeated nine-term U.S. Representative and former governor Michael Castle in Delaware's September 2010 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, despite Castle being the favorite to take the seat back from the Democrats. In doing so, O'Donnell caused an uproar among the political establishment. She lost in the general election to Democrat Chris Coons by a margin of 57% to 40%.O'Donnell's 2010 Senate run was her third try for the office in five years. In 2008, she was the Republican nominee, losing to the incumbent , Joe Biden, by 65% to 35%. In 2006, she ran in the Republican primary for Senate, finishing third, then ran as a write-in

in the general election, drawing four percent of the vote. After 2010, O'Donnell provided commentary on the Fox News Channel and CNN. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. August 1969
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Famous Christine O'Donnell Quotes

“The generation of young people that questioned the establishment in the '60s is now middle-aged, and has become the establishment itself. Moral absolutes have been eliminated, "feel-good" religions created, and free sex legitimized, paving the way for disposable marriages. The results of these tailor-made values are new strains of sexually transmitted diseases, more potent drugs, more broken families and out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates and worrisome suicide rates.”

Christine
O'Donnell
Opposite Attraction; Pitching Abstinence to the Young and the Restless at the HFStival
1997-06-15
The Washington Post
C1
2010-09-15
Remembering Christine O'Donnell: Praising Helms, Missing Lenny and Squiggy, and Worries of Rampant Satanism
Kyle
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remembering-christine-odonnell-praising-helms-missing-lenny-and-squiggy-and-worries-rampant-
2010-10-20

“The Ryan White Care Act provides money for community-based counseling centers. While that may sound noble and compassionate, we know from experience that "AIDS education" becomes a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents and lure teens into a self-destructive sexual lifestyle.”

Concerned Women for America press release
2010-09-15
Christine O'Donnell Does Not Like Gays.
Instaputz
http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-does-not-like-gays.html
2010-10-20

Christine O'Donnell Quotes about people

“The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with the opposite sex… Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”

2001-10
Television series
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
ABC
Steve
Krakauer
Christine O'Donnell Thinks Psychics Are Evil Pimps
Mediaite
2010-09-15
http://www.mediaite.com/online/christine-odonnell-thinks-psychics-are-evil-pimps/
2010-11-01
Asked why James Van Praagh (also present) is so evil that Leviticus 20:27 says he should be stoned to death
TV appearances

“We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools. Now we're having weekly shootings. We had the '60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.”

1998-08
Television series
Politically Incorrect
ABC
Politically Incorrect August 1998 Part 1 of 2 Eddie Izzard Christine O'Donnell
YouTube
2009-06-21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFisw16di3w
2010-10-20
Scott
Keyes
O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home
Think Progress
2010-09-15
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/15/odonnell-lie-jews/
2010-10-20
TV appearances

“I don't celebrate Halloween because of what it means. Because it is a Satanic holiday, it is a pagan holiday, and while people are going around getting free candy, people are falling victims to human sacrifices and things like that. That's the reality of what's going on on Halloween.”

1999-10-29
Television series
Politically Incorrect
ABC
2010-09-20
Profile: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11378369
2010-10-20
TV appearances

“People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married… with Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?”

America's Sexual Right Turn
Insight
1997-06-02
2010-09-15
Remembering Christine O'Donnell: Praising Helms, Missing Lenny and Squiggy, and Worries of Rampant Satanism
Kyle
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remembering-christine-odonnell-praising-helms-missing-lenny-and-squiggy-and-worries-rampant-
2010-10-20

Christine O'Donnell Quotes about thinking

“Since anonymous sources are being taken seriously, please allow me to share some tips I've received and keep the tipsters' identities anonymous. We've been warned by multiple high-ranking Democrat insiders that the Delaware Democrat and Republican political establishment is jointly planning to pull out all the stops to ensure I would never again upset the apple cart. Specifically they told me the plan was to crush me with investigations, lawsuits and false accusations so that my political reputation would become so toxic no one would ever get behind me. I was warned by numerous sources that the DE political establishment is going to use every resource available to them. So given that the king of the Delaware political establishment just so happens to be the vice president of the most liberal presidential administration in U. S. history, it is no surprise that misuse and abuse of the FBI would not be off the table. And further connecting the dots, do you think it is just a coincidence that Melanie Sloan was a senior Biden staffer just before she joined CREW and filed her complaint against me?!”

Press statement, 2010-12-29, quoted in * Is There a Case Against Christine O'Donnell?
Slate
2010-12-29
http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/12/29/is-there-a-case-against-christine-o-donnell.aspx
2011-06-07
regarding an FBI criminal investigation into allegations she misused campaign funds for personal expenses

“Eric Nies: You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?
Christine O'Donnell: Yeah. Yeah!
Eric Nies: You're living on a prayer if you think that's going to happen.
Christine O'Donnell: That's not true. I'm a young woman in my thirties and I remain chaste.”

2010-09-23
Television series
Scarborough Country
MSNBC
Jason
Linkins
Christine O'Donnell Will Stop America From Sexing Each Other (Video)
The Huffington Post
2010-09-24
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/christine-odonnell-will-s_n_738276.html
2010-10-20
to Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation
TV appearances

“Christine O'Donnell: Well, don't you think as a host, if I say "this is what I want to talk about", that's what we should address?
Piers Morgan: Not really, no. You're a politician.”

Piers Morgan Tonight
CNN
Television, quoted in * Christine O’Donnell storms out of Piers Morgan interview over ‘rude’ treatment
2011-08-18
Steven
Nelson
Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/18/christine-odonnell-storms-out-of-piers-morgan-interview-over-rude-treatment/
2011-10-15
TV appearances

Christine O'Donnell Quotes

“I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously.”

TV appearances
Context: Eddie Izzard: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, "Do you have any Jewish people in your house?" and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
Christine O'Donnell: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
Bill Maher: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.
Christine O'Donnell: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.

“You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.”

TV appearances
Context: Eddie Izzard: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, "Do you have any Jewish people in your house?" and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
Christine O'Donnell: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
Bill Maher: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.
Christine O'Donnell: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.

“It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.”

Context: We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible.... The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms.... It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.

“They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it’s too expensive to be worth saving.”

at Family Research Council's Values Voters Summit, 2010-09-17
Mike
Lillis
O'Donnell revives Palin's 'death panel' claim on health reform
2010-09-18
The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/119545-odonnell-revives-palins-death-panel-claim
2010-10-30
Kenneth
Hayes
Christine O'Donnell: health care and death panels
2010-09-18
Chicago Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-chicago/christine-o-donnell-health-care-and-death-panels
2010-10-30
2010 Delaware US Senate race

“Christine O'Donnell: But let me tell you something! They — homosexuals' special rights groups can get away with so much more than nobody else can!
Alan Colmes: Well, what are they getting away with here, Christine? Tell me what you’re seeing…
Christine O'Donnell: They're getting away with nudity!
Fay: Oh, right.
Christine O'Donnell: They're getting away with nudity! They're getting away with lasciviousness! They're getting away with perversion!
Fay: Oh, Christine…
Christine O'Donnell: They're getting away with blasphemy!”

2000-06-26
Television series
Hannity & Colmes
Fox News
Christine O'Donnell: how can she be taken seriously? Rush says she's electable.
Pam
Spaulding
Pam's House Blend
2010-09-19
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17374/christine-odonnell-how-can-she-be-taken-seriously-rush-says-shes-electable
2010-10-20
2010-09-15
Christine O'Donnell Does Not Like Gays.
Instaputz
http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-does-not-like-gays.html
2010-10-20
about 2000 New York City Gay Pride Parade
TV appearances

“You're gonna be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him, and he's gonna please himself, then why am I in the picture?”

1996
Television
IX: The Safest Sex of All
Sex in the 90s
MTV
Jill
Rayfield
Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's 'Sex In The 90s' (VIDEO)
Talking Points Memo
2010-09-14
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/christine-odonnells-1996-anti-masturbation-campaign-on-mtvs-sex-in-the-90s.php
2010-10-20
2010-09-20
Profile: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11378369
2010-10-20
TV appearances

“I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.”

first 2010 US Senate race general election TV advertisement by the Christine O'Donnell senate campaign
Christine O'Donnell: I'm You
Christine4Senate's YouTube channel
YouTube
2010-10-04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGAgljengs
2010-10-20
2010 Delaware US Senate race, 2010 political advertisements

“America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”

campaign speech, December 6, 2009
Christine O'Donnell on socialismin America
YouTube
2009-12-06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFisw16di3w
2010-10-20
2010 Delaware US Senate race

“The U. S. Supreme Court does not recognize the homosexual community as a minority group. We believe homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle, and it is reversible.”

1995
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
2010-09-15
Christine O'Donnell Does Not Like Gays.
Instaputz
http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-does-not-like-gays.html
2010-10-20
as press secretary of Concerned Women for America, on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual History Month

“We think that it legitimizes the homosexual lifestyle.”

1995
The Toronto Star
At Coors, a Brewing Dilemma Over Gay Rights
The Washington Post
1995-09-16
2010-09-15
Christine O'Donnell Does Not Like Gays.
Instaputz
http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-does-not-like-gays.html
2010-10-20
2010-09-15
Remembering Christine O'Donnell: Praising Helms, Missing Lenny and Squiggy, and Worries of Rampant Satanism
Kyle
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remembering-christine-odonnell-praising-helms-missing-lenny-and-squiggy-and-worries-rampant-
2010-10-20
as press secretary of Concerned Women for America, on why the organization opposes Coors giving benefits to gay employees' partners

“Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.”

interview with Miles O'Brien, CNN, 1996-03-30
Gabriella
Schwarz
O'Donnell questioned evolution
Political Ticker
CNN
2010-09-16
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/16/odonnell-questioned-evolution/
2010-10-24
GOP's Delaware Senate Nominee Christine O'Donnell Not a Big Fan of Evolution
New York Magazine
2010-09-15
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/the_gops_delaware_senate_nomin.html
2010-10-24
Posed question: There's a lot of people who would suggest that creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. That the big bang— after all, something had to create the big bangs, perhaps some higher being, and there's a tremendous amount of scientific evidence that there was a big bang which started this whole process underway. You can't go along with that?

“I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to”

2006 Delaware US Senate race
Context: :There's much that I want to say, that I, uh, I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to because I think that, um

“Absolutely, but let me qualify that— I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.”

interview at Americans for Prosperity's RightOnline Conference, July 2010
Christine O'Donnell Running For Senate In Delaware At AFP's RightOnline Conference
2010-09-05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYPTaKrWkRk
2010-10-20
asked if she considers herself a feminist

“What's next? Orgy rooms? Menage a trois rooms? All this coedness is outside normal life. Most average American adults don't use coed bathrooms — if they had the option of a coed bathroom at a public restaurant, they wouldn't choose it.”

Taming Animal House; Students find ways to keep morals in college life.
2003-09-18
Washington Times
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3130739/Taming-Animal-House-Students-find.html
on coed dormitory rooms

“I think that making a statement whether China is friend or foe we have to be careful not to label all Chinese but in terms of the government I think that there is a very carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America.”

I think that China, the Chinese government is definitely a foe and one example is that China is taking American soil right now.
2006 Delaware US Senate race

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