With a few exceptions, I’ve generally given just a quote with a link, but no attribution or names. If you like, you can use this as a test of your campaign knowledge by trying to identify the speaker before clicking the link!
Huge thanks to the Veracifier YouTube channel set up by Talking Points Memo, where I got a lot of these clips from.
Part of me envies those who were blogging when all this stuff was going on, but another part is glad I can just whip this together in one shot, to blatantly mix metaphors.
So, in no particular order, here they are:
1. “We even know how to talk about eating fried squirrel and stuff like that, so we’re on the same wavelength.”
[video]
2. "I'm not doing hand shows today."
[video]
3. "I'm looking forward to you advising me as well. I want to gather up talent from everywhere."
[blog + video]
4. "I was tied up at the time."
[video]
5. the Romney face scrunch
[video at 4:10]
6. "Here's the thing. After a couple minutes, I was feeling kind of fired up. And I was feeling like I was ready to go."
[video]
7. "I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's terrible!"
[video, 1:20 - 2:20] + [blog]
8. "I ... opposed Iraq from the beginning ..."
[video]
9. "I just don't want to see us fall backwards!"
[video]
10. Huckabee shows the negative ad he's not going to show
[blog]
11. Russert channels an Iraqi nationalist
[video, 3:30 - 4:45]
12. "I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother."
[video at 13:45]
13. "I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged."
[video]
14. "a noun, a verb, and 9/11"
[video, first few seconds]
15. "I am honored ... I am honored ... I am absolutely honored ..."
--> "Shame on you!"
[debate] --> [speech 2 days later]
16. “Maybe 100!”
[video]
17. “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America ... in a way that Bill Clinton did not.”
[video]
18. “He has said in the last week that he really liked the ideas of the Republicans over the last 10 to 15 years.”
[video]
19. [Dead link.]
[video, 10:30 - end]
20. “Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself ....”
[story]
21. "I want to make change, but I've already MADE change!!!"
(debate in between Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary)
[video at 0:35]
22. “Well, that hurts my feelings.”
[video]
23. “Who let the dogs out?!”
[video]
24. bug in hair
[video]
25. "We're going to win Florida."
[video]
26. Hillary Clinton on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants
[video]
27. "She is a monster too. That is off the record."
[article]
28. "It's not surprising that they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."
[audio clip at 0:25]
29. "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice ..."
[video]
30. "I just said some things that ... didn't jibe with what I knew to be the case."
[blog]
31. "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"
[blog]
32. "We would be able to totally obliterate them."
[video]
33. McCain says he's "pleased" to have endorsement of pastor who said Katrina was retribution for gay pride parade
[video, 3:05 - 4:45]
34. Hillary Clinton endorses McCain and herself for Commander-in-Chief
[video]
35. "It would be OK to repeal [Roe v. Wade]."
[article]
36. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad."
[article]
37. "Well, I'll talk to him later!"
[video]
38. "When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
[video]
39. "... [he] was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book ..."
[video, 1:20-2:00]
40. "He said, 'Katrina! Katrina!' So I then gave my answer on Katrina."
[video, 9:20 - 10:45]
41. "It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals."
[article]
42. Hillary Clinton refuses to state a policy on Social Security
[video, 8:15 - 9:10]
43. Edwards says Obama and Clinton have both assured him they'll carry on his fight against poverty
[video at 5:00]
44. “Sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this, a night that years from now ... you'll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.”
[video at 8:50]
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