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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (49590)7/26/2006 11:52:17 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (3) of 90947
 
>France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these
>drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been
>governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain
>
>"I would rather have a German division in front of me than
>a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton
>
>"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
>without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf
>
>"We can stand here like the French, or we can do
>something about it." ---- Marge Simpson
>
>"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
> ---Jacques Chirac, President of France
>
>"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
> ---Rush Limbaugh,
>
>"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is
>sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
> --- Regis Philbin
>
>"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any
>better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit
>outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more
>stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey
>I don't know." --- P.J O'Rourke (1989)
>
>"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the
>1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have
>the face for it."
> ---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
>
>"I don't know why people were surprised that France wouldn't help us
>get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the
>Germans out of France!"
> ---Jay Leno
>
>"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into
>Paris under a German flag."
> --David Letterman
>
>How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
>One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
>
>Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
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