Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator
Catch Phrases
Source: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703300001
"Pretend to be all you can be" (3 October 2007) http://anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=210. <br class="br">2007 <br class="br">Context: Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.
Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator
Catch Phrases
Source: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703300001
Jason Whitlock (1967) American TV person
" Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/20227", Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.
“I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.”
Bernard Goldberg (1945) American journalist
Everyone Loves a List http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/column/archive/2005_08_01_archive.php Newsweek. Carl Sullivan (July 30, 2005)
“Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Rant in E-Minor (1997)
Allen West (politician) (1961) American politician; retired United States Army officer
2010s, Open letter to Khizr M. Khan (31 July 2016)
“You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
In reference to an attack on him by Rush Limbaugh who declared that he hoped Barack Obama would fail as president. "Barack Obama picks a fight with Rush Limbaugh as bipartisan spirit crumbles" in The Times (24 January 2009) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4331839/Barack-Obama-picks-a-fight-with-Rush-Limbaugh-as-bipartisan-spirit-crumbles.html <br class="br">2009
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. (1939) United States Navy admiral
Why Peacekeeping is So Difficult http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/LWSmith/lwsmith-con07.html <br class="br">Interview at USC Berkeley (1997) <br class="br">Context: When we went to Bosnia the people in Bosnia welcomed us with open arms, and I would go down the street and people would come up and say, "Admiral, thank you for bringing peace to Bosnia." And my standard answer was this, "I cannot bring peace to this country. Only you can bring peace to this country. I can bring the conditions in which peace can be established, but I cannot bring peace to this country." So the mistake we have made in our country, if we have made a mistake, is that we believe that we can influence or that we can enforce a peace, and we cannot. You can stop the fighting, and we did. And you can put money into a country and you can try to build it up so that the momentum you get from a visible economic engine creates a condition where peace will take hold. But that requires a political will that is not today evident in Bosnia. It was certainly not evident when I was there.<br>I think we are doing the right thing to put our military into these kinds of operations. No one is better able to do it. Peacekeeping is not a soldier function, but only soldiers can do it, because we've got the organization. We can make things happen in a hurry.
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 99, “By the Military Cemetery: Missing Persons” (p. 664)
Context: “It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.”
“Soldiers live,” I muttered.
“You’re turning that into a mantra.”
“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”
Carl Rowan (1925–2000) American journalist
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)