Taft, Charlotte (reformed abortion mill administrator)
"We were hiding from the women some of the pieces of truth about abortion that were threatening. ... It is a kind of killing."
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Former abortion mill administrator Charlotte Taft. The Dallas Observer, March 18, 1995.
Target Stores
"Catholic schools are not part of the community."
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The explanation Target Stores, a discount chain, gave for refusing a donation to a Catholic school in Buffalo, New York, in 1996. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1996 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Tatchell, Peter (President of the homosexual group OutRage)
"We do not believe that consensual actions between adults, no matter how bizarre they might appear to the majority, are any concern of the law or its agents. Thus we seek to legitimize consenting actions in bath-houses and saunas, 'backrooms' in pubs, and all group sex in private, including sado-masochistic games. ... We would also like to extend the concept of "private" to include public lavatory cubicles and after-dark 'cruising' areas. Since recreational sex is a natural activity and popular pursuit, all laws which seek to control it should be abolished ... The whole basis of the current homosexual control laws is moralistic and based on a largely medieval concept of Christianity which we believe has no place in a pluralistic democratic society. ... sensitive consideration should be given to examples of [sexual] experimentation between those just above and just below a fixed age of consent."
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Submission to the British House of Commons by the homosexual group OutRage, led by Peter Tatchell, in support of lowering the age of consent for sex. Cited in "Britain Panders to Homosexual Pedophiles." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, February 11, 2000; and Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor. "Gay Groups Seek to Legalise Sex in Public Lavatories." Daily Telegraph, February 11, 2000 [NOTE: The latter article stated that "They [the homosexuals] have made clear that yesterday's Bill to equalise the ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts is only the start of a concerted effort to remove all legislative restrictions upon homosexual activity and relationships"].
Taylor, Howard
"Dr. Helpern, about the frequency of suicide in pregnancy to which you have referred, I think it has been shown that the rate of suicide among pregnant women is considerably lower than among nonpregnant women of childbearing age. This is perhaps not a complete answer, but, at any rate, it appears that suicide as a result of pregnancy must be vary rare indeed. I say this in the fact that for the last three years the threat of suicide has been at our hospital the principle psychiatric indication accepted."
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Howard C. Taylor, Jr., M.D., Director, Obstetrical and Gynecological Service, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, at the 1955 conference on induced abortion held by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Quoted in Mary Calderone, M.D. (editor). Abortion in the United States [New York City: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.], 1956, page 139.
Taylor, Ronald
"Due to the increasing severity of the food shortage, the following will be a typical menu by the year 1990;
Slug Soup
Wasp Grubs Fried in the Comb Termites Bantu
Moths Sauteed in Butter
New Carrots with Wireworm Sauce
Fricasseed Chicken with Chrysalides
Cauliflower Garnished with Caterpillars
Slag Beetle Larvae on Toast Chocolate Chirpies"
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Ronald L. Taylor, author of Butterflies in My Stomach. As described in David Wallechinsky and Amy and Irving Wallace. The Book of Predictions [New York City: William Morrow and Company], 1980.
Teicher, Oren ('Americans' for Constitutional Freedom (ACF))
"What Wildmon is doing is no different than what the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini did when he tried to suppress the sale of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses."
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Oren Teicher, director for 'Americans' for Constitutional Freedom (ACF), attacking Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association for testifying against pornography. Quoted in Tom Shales. "Wildmon Denies He's Acting As Censor." The Oregonian, June 22, 1989, page D9.
Tepper, Sheri (Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA))
"Do you want a convenient warm body? Buy one. That's right. There are women who have freely chosen that business; buy one. Do you want a virgin to marry? Buy one. There are girls in that business, too. Marriage is the price you'll pay, and you'll get the virgin. Very temporarily."
"There are certain things that you do not want to talk about to your parents. There are certain things they don't want to talk about to you. The only thing you owe anyone is courtesy. You don't owe anyone 'love.' If you think your parents are great, that's wonderful. If you don't get along, that's too bad but it's no lifetime tragedy. How you feel about them isn't nearly as important as how you feel about yourself. And if you start thinking and talking about them all the time, you may find yourself still doing it at age fifty with no one listening."
"This is a rotten time to be black. Blacks are just going to take it in the chops. ... Their programs are going to get eviscerated and affirmative action is going to go right down the tubes. ... Politics have moved right because a lot of middle-class people thought they were taking my money and giving it to poor black people, and they didn't like it and they want their money back."
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Newsweek Magazine Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas on "Inside Washington," November 12, 1994.
"She [Hillary Clinton] is really convinced that the right wing is incredibly well-organized, and there is kind of a hate campaign going on in this country that is, is deeply and well-organized, and it poses a real threat to government and the Clintons personally. And I mean, she may be right."
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Newsweek Magazine Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas on "Inside Washington," August 13, 1994.
"Yes, the case is being fomented by right-wing nuts, and yes, she is not a very credible witness, and it's really not a law case at all ... some sleazy woman with big hair [Paula Jones] coming out of the trailer parks ... I think she's a dubious witness, I really do."
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Newsweek Magazine Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas, May 7, 1994 "Inside Washington."
Thomas, Helen
"A liberal bias? I don't know what a liberal bias is. Do you mean we care about the poor, the sick, and the maimed? Do we care whether people are being shot every day on the streets of America? If that's liberal, so be it. I think it's everything that's good in life — that we do care. And also for the solutions — we seek solutions and we do think that we are all responsible for what happens in this country."
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UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas on C-SPAN's "Journalists Roundtable," December 31, 1993.
Thomas, Laura
"Historically, radical feminism portrayed pornography as exploitative. Now we're saying it can be beautiful."
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San Francisco lesbian Laura Thomas, quoted in Eloise Salholz. "The Future of Gay America." Newsweek Magazine, March 12, 1990, page 23.
Thompson, Dick (Time Magazine)
"The noises coming from [Rep. Sonny] Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's 'Contract with America' signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues — a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls, and even
the human species."
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Time Magazine reporter Dick Thompson in a February 27, 1995 story headlined "Congressional Chain-Saw Massacre: If Speaker Newt Gingrich Gets His Way, the Laws Protecting Air, Water and Wildlife May be Endangered."
Thompson, Ginger (New York Times reporter)
"As she watches Republicans in Congress push ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Ellen Mendel of Manhattan says she feels the same despair that she did as a girl in Nazi Germany when the efforts of a stubborn group of leaders snowballed, crushing the will of the people. 'It is apparent that the bulldozing campaign by the Republicans will not end,' said Ms. Mendel, a psychotherapist. And in a moment of self-analysis, she added: 'Their efforts are so abusive that I was beginning to feel a sense of discouragement. I have been feeling very isolated.'"
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Opening to a January 25, 1999 New York Times story by Ginger Thompson on liberal Manhattanites enraged by the Republican push for removal of President Clinton.
Thompson, Leigh ('artist')
[A] "smiling papal figure standing between two nuns. Each nun has her hand on the head of a male figure who is kneeling in front of the papal figure's crotch. ... Hanging from a crudely designed crucifix made of intersecting penises is a Jesus Christ-like figure receiving oral sex from a veiled figure. Below the cross, two nuns lie on their backs with the ends of a coat hanger between their legs. Pages of the Bible are scrawled with the Satanic figure, 666. There was also a painted depiction of a priest receiving oral sex from a small child."
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Michelle Malkin's description of Seattle-based Leigh Thompson's various pieces of "art" displayed in the Art/Not Art Terminal gallery, from an article in the Seattle Times. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here [NOTE: Thompson left no doubt that the works were designed to offend in order to gain him some notoriety. He was actually calling Seattle media in an effort to stir up controversy over these works of "art." In June of 1998, Thompson put together yet another piece of garbage, consisting of "Christ on cross being sodomized by two men, anally and orally, genitals showing, ejaculation, while blood drips from his forehead and hands, semen is present." Thompson hung Catholic League president William Donohue's name in the window alongside this latest atrocity].
Thorstad, David (child molester)
"Man-boy love relationships are a happy feature of the rebellion of youth, and of its irrepressible search for self-discovery ... Most of us, given the opportunity and the assurance of safety, would no doubt choose to share our sexuality with someone under the age of consent."
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Convicted pedophile and NAMBLA [North American Man-Boy Love Association] member David Thorstad, quoted in Richard Goldstein, "The Future of Gay Liberation: Sex on Parole." The Village Voice, August 20-26, 1980.
"I think that pederasty should be given the stamp of approval. I think it's true that boy-lovers [pederasts] are much better for children than the parents are ..."
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Convicted pedophile and NAMBLA [North American Man-Boy Love Association] member David Thorstad, quoted in Joseph Sobran. "The Moderate Radical." Human Life Review, Summer 1983, pages 59 and 60.
Threlkeld, Richard
"After eight years of what many saw as the Reagan Administration's benign neglect of the poor and studied indifference to civil rights, a lot of those who lived through this week in Overtown [rioting in a section of Miami] seemed to think the best thing about George Bush is that he is not Ronald Reagan. ... There is an Overtown in every big city in America. Pockets of misery made even meaner and more desperate the past eight years."
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Reporter Richard Threlkeld on ABC's "World News Tonight," January 20, 1989.
"And why do they do these unnatural, unhuman things, these soldiers? Not for God or country or freedom or even because they've been ordered to. They do them, finally, as James Jones, the author put it, because they don't want to appear unmanly in front of their friends."
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CBS reporter Richard Threlkeld on U.S. soldiers, February 8, 1991 CBS "Evening News."
Thurow, Lester C.
"The traditional family is disappearing almost everywhere ... patriarchal linear life is economically now over ... the one-earner, middle-class family is extinct."
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Lester C. Thurow. "Changes in Capitalism Render One-Earner Families Extinct." USA Today, January 27, 1997, page 17A.
Tietze, Christopher (abortion statistician)
"It was recognized by conference participants that no scientific evidence has been developed to support the claim that the increased availability of contraceptive services will clearly result in a decreased illegal abortion rate."
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Concluding statement signed by the leading sex researchers of the day at the April 1955 Conference on Induced Abortion, sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Cosigners included Alan Guttmacher, M.D.; Alfred E. Kinsey, M.D.; Christopher Tietze, M.D.; John Rock, M.D.; and Abraham Stone, M.D.
"Because induced abortion and contraception share the prevention of unwanted or mistimed births as a common objective, a high correlation between abortion experience and contraceptive experience can be expected in populations to which both contraception and abortion are available and where some couples have attempted to regulate the number and spacing of their children. In such populations, women who have practiced contraception are more likely to have had abortions than those who have not practiced contraception, and women who have had abortions are more likely to have been contraceptors than women without a history of abortion."
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Christopher Tietze. "Abortion and Contraception," in Abortion: Readings and Research (Toronto, Canada, Butterworth & Company), 1981, pages 54 to 60.
"Within 10 years, 20 to 50 percent of pill users and a substantial majority of users of other methods may be expected to experience at least one repeat abortion."
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Abortion statistician Christopher Tietze, quoted in the National Abortion Rights Action League's A Speaker's and Debater's Guidebook. June 1978, page 24 [NOTE: Note that Tietze is speaking about repeat (second or greater) abortions here].
"The safest regimen of control for the unmarried and for married child-spacers is the use of traditional methods [of contraception] backed up by abortion; but if this regimen is commenced early in the child-bearing years, it is likely to involve several abortions in the course of her reproductive career for each woman who chooses it."
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C. Tietze, J. Bongaarts, and B. Schearer. "Mortality Associated With the Control of Fertility." Family Planning Perspectives, January- February 1976, pages 6-14.
"... women who have practiced contraception are more likely to have had abortions than those who have not practiced contraception, and women who have had abortions are more likely to have been contraceptors that women without a history of abortion."
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Christopher Tietze. "Abortion and Contraception." In Abortion: Readings and Research. Toronto: Butterworth, 1981, pages 54-60.
Tiller, George R. (late-term abortionist)
"Sometime in the next legislative session, bills may be introduced to prevent third-trimester abortions for fetal indications. Please call or write your newly elected officials at the state and local levels. Let them know that this option must be preserved for women and families with a damaged fetus ... [Neonatal units] do not guarantee good kids. There are very damaged, very dead, very vegetable-like kids who come out of these neonatal care units."
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Late-term abortionist George R. Tiller. "Don't Prohibit Third Trimester Abortions." Letter to The Hays [Kansas] Daily News, January 6, 1989, page 4. Also see Tiller's quote in Michael Martinez. "Late-Term Abortions at Clinic Draw Clients, Foes From Many States." Washington Post, August 22, 1987, page A5.
Sidewalk counselor: "You can't go to heaven unrepentant, George; you are going to Hell."
Abortionist George Tiller: "Abortion is worth going to Hell for."
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Conversation on the morning of January 22, 2003 outside George Tiller's third-trimester abortion mill, described in Operation Rescue West media advisory dated February 11, 2003.
"For the past ten years, you and I have defeated the evils of misogyny, hatred, condemnation and castigation of women. We have provided hope, growth, understanding and the promise of a better day tomorrow for over 25,000 women right here at Women's Healthcare Service. ... We have helped women and families struggle to save their unwell, unborn child from a lifetime of pain, suffering, disability and hardship. We have helped ten-year-old girls and 56-year-old women avoid the age related horrors of unplanned motherhood. ... Those that oppose us know — and we know — and all women know — that if the forces of misogyny and evil can deny women birth control before intercourse and abortion services and emergency contraception after intercourse, then they control women's lives forever. ... Therefore, holding these truths to be self evident, acknowledging that a new reproductive paradigm and a new social order is necessary for true equality of men and women, the members of Women's Healthcare Service announce and declare a new paradigm and new social order: The 2001 Declaration of Reproductive Independence: "For every woman, each pregnancy is an invited guest into her body and a welcome addition into her family."
"God Bless America.
"God Bless all the abortion workers who make FREEDOM possible in ways that we will never completely understand for hundreds of thousands of women and families each year.
"God Bless, care for, comfort, protect and defend all women everywhere if they find it necessary to pass through the abortion experience."
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Late-term abortionist George Tiller, in a July 13, 2001 speech at the so-called "Victory Rally and Declaration of Reproductive Independence" [NOTE: According to the preliminary report Abortions in Kansas 2001, Tiller killed 635 babies aged 22 weeks gestation or greater; 395 viable babies using the "mental health" exception; no babies to save the life of a pregnant woman, and no babies in the context of a medical emergency. During the period 1999-2001 alone, Tiller killed 1,848 babies aged 22 weeks gestation or greater; 1,077 viable babies using the "mental health" exception, of which more than 75% had no fetal anomalies whatsoever. During these three years, Tiller committed no abortions to save the life of the mother, and committed exactly one abortion in the context of a medical emergency].
Time Magazine
"... an even more radical approach may evolve. It is reasonable to ask whether there will be a family at all. Given the propensity for divorce, the growing number of adults who choose to remain single, the declining popularity of having children and the evaporation of the time families spend together, another way may eventually evolve. It may be quicker and more efficient to dispense with family-based reproduction. Society could then produce its future generations in institutions that might resemble state-sponsored baby hatcheries ..."
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Time Magazine Fall 1992 Special Issue entitled "Beyond the Year 2000: What to Expect in the New Millennium."
"Put an international tax on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. ... Find a way to put the brakes on the world's spiraling population, which will otherwise double by the year 2050. ... Give the United Nations broad powers to create an environmental police force for the planet."
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Time Magazine list of "What They Should Do But Won't" at the United Nations "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, June 1, 1992.
"NATURE HAS A CURE FOR EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THE SPREAD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. Until recently, cultural genocide has been a quietly accepted practice. But times change and so does TIME."
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Time Magazine advertisement in the April 27, 1992 Sports Illustrated promoting their "Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge" issue.
"Once employment by the elite Stasi was a way of life. Now it is the curse of [former Stasi] Dieter's existence. 'Everybody has forgotten that we worked to make this country safe,' he says. ... Though the Stasi propped up an unpopular Communist regime for more than four decades and were notorious for their disregard of privacy and occasional beatings of prisoners, Dieter cannot understand why so much loathing is aimed his way."
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Unbylined story in Time Magazine, April 23, 1990.
"The only thing most experts agree on is that homosexuality is not a result of any kinky genes."
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Time Magazine editorial, October 31, 1969, page 64.
"Humanity's current predatory relationship with nature reflects a man-centered worldview that has evolved over the ages ... In many pagan societies, the earth was seen as a mother, a fertile giver of life. Mortals were subordinate to nature. The Judeo-Christian tradition introduced a radically different concept. The idea of dominion (engendered in the book of Genesis) could be interpreted as an invitation to use nature as a convenience. Thus, the spread of Christianity, which is generally considered to have paved the way for the development of technology, may at the same time have carried the seeds of the wanton exploitation of nature that often accompanied technical progress."
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From Time Magazine's bizarre 1988 "Planet of the Year" issue [NOTE: This issue was predictably crammed with lurid color photographs of oil slicks, dead and rotting animals, toxic poisons leaching into the soil, smog, Everests of trash, and starving children (but nothing about aborted preborn children, naturally)]!
Tinker, Grant (former President of NBC)
"The public wants violence, and we produce it for them."
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Grant Tinker, former President of NBC, on the PBS series "On Television," quoted in "CBS News Head Puts It Bluntly." National Federation for Decency Journal, July/August 1985, page 16.
Tisdale, Sallie (abortion mill nurse)
"Abortion is so routine that one expects it to be like a manicure: Quick, cheap, and painless."
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Sallie Tisdale, abortion clinic nurse, October 1987 Harpers Magazine article entitled "We Do Abortions Here."
"It is when I am holding a plastic uterus in one hand, a suction tube in the other, moving them together in imitation of the scrubbing to come, that women ask the most secret question. I am speaking in a matter-of-fact voice about 'the tissue' and 'the contents' when the woman suddenly catches my eye and says 'How big is the baby now?' These words suggest a quiet need for definition of the boundaries being drawn. It isn't so odd, after all, that she feels relief when I describe the growing bud's bulbous shape, its miniature nature. Again, I gauge, and sometimes lie a little, weaseling around its infantile features until its clinging power slackens."
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Abortion mill worker Sallie Tisdale. "We Do Abortions Here." Harpers Magazine, October 1987, page 68.
Tivis, Luhra (reformed abortion mill worker)
"From May to November 1988, I worked for an abortionist [George Tiller of Wichita Kansas]. He specializes in third trimester killings. I witnessed evidence of the brutal, cold blooded murder of over 600 viable, healthy babies at seven, eight and nine months gestation. A very, very few of these babies, less than 2%, were handicapped. ... I thought I was pro-choice and I was glad to be working in an abortion clinic. I thought I was helping provide a noble service to women in crisis. ... I was instructed to falsify the age of the babies in medical records. I was required to lie to the mothers over the phone, as they scheduled their appointments, and to tell them that they were not 'too far along.' Then I had to note in the records that Dr. Tiller's needle had successfully pierced the walls of the baby's heart, injecting the poison what brought death. ... One day, Dr. Tiller came up the stairs from the basement, where the mothers were in labor. He was carrying a large cardboard box, and ducked into the employees only area of the office so that he wouldn't have to walk through the waiting room. He passed behind my desk as I sat working on the computer, and he turned the corner to go around a short hall. He called out for me to come and help him. the box was so big and heavy in his arms that he couldn't get the key into the lock. So I unlocked the door for him, and, pushing the door open, I saw very clearly the gleaming metal of the crematorium — a full-sized crematorium, just like the ones used in funeral homes. I went back to my computer. I could hear Dr. Tiller firing up the gas oven. A few minutes later I could smell burning human flesh. Mine was the agony of a participant, however reluctant, in the act of prenatal infanticide."
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Luhra Tivis on her experience in the abortion business, quoted in American Life League. Celebrate Life, September/October 1994.
Tooley, Michael
"Most people would prefer to raise children who do not suffer from gross deformities or from several physical, emotional or intellectual handicaps. If it could be shown that there is no moral objection to infanticide, the happiness of society could be significantly and justifiably increased ... A newborn infant does not possess the concept of a conscious self any more than a newborn kitten possesses such a concept ... infanticide during a time interval shortly after birth must be morally acceptable."
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Michael Tooley. "Abortion and Infanticide." Philosophy and Public Affairs, January 1972.
Totenberg, Nina (NPR)
"You big asshole. ... You are so full of shit! You are an evil man . ... I don't have to listen to this shit. You're a bitter and evil man and all your colleagues hate you."
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NPR's Nina Totenberg to Senator Alan Simpson after "Nightline," as Simpson told The Washington Post, October 9, 1991.
"There is a lot of gleeful sexist reaction to her [Hillary Clinton's] difficulties, a lot of piling on, a lot of men who never stood up for a woman's right to do anything who would be completely content to have her whispering sweet nothings to him in bed and manipulating him that way, and are simply terrorized by the thought that she may have real, formal, out-front power."
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NPR's Nina Totenberg on "Inside Washington," March 12, 1994.
Reporter Nina Totenberg: "Have you ever cried over these cases?"
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun: "Have I ever what?"
Totenberg: "Have you ever cried over them?"
Blackmun: "No."
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Exchange about capital punishment cases on ABC's "Nightline," November 18, 1993.
Host Tina Gulland: "Are we agreed generally that it was a plus week for Clinton in the sense that he was viewed as presidential and in charge of foreign policy?"
Nina Totenberg: "He was there in the middle of the desert. I mean, it was biblical!"
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Exchange on "Inside Washington" about Clinton's Middle East trip, October 29, 1994.
"I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
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National Public Radio and ABC News reporter Nina Totenberg, reacting to Senator Jesse Helms' claim that the government spends too much on AIDS research, July 8, 1995 "Inside Washington."
Toynbee, Polly
"The only good religion is a moribund religion. Only when the faithful are weak are they tolerant and peaceful."
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Journalist Polly Toynbee, in the October 5, 2001 edition of The Guardian. Quoted in "Blaming Religion for September 11: Belief Systems Foster Violence, Some Critics Contend." Zenit's Weekly News Analysis of November 10, 2001.
Trafford, Abigail (Washington Post)
"An unfortunate legacy of the Reagan revolution is a swelling medical underclass: alcoholics and drug addicts who deluge emergency rooms and fill prisons, AIDS babies and crack newborns in overwhelmed pediatric wards, homeless children with anemia, schizophrenics and other mental patients in shelters and jails and on the streets."
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Abigail Trafford, Editor of The Washington Post "Health" section, in a January 24, 1989 article.
Tribe, Laurence (law professor)
"State efforts to ferret out prohibited abortions — as defined by the Government — would require not only searches of bedrooms for telltale 'morning-after' pills, but also searches of women's bodies for intrauterine devices."
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Law professor Laurence Tribe, quoted by Douglas Johnson. "81 Congressmen File Brief Urging Court to Retain Roe." National Right to Life News, September 26, 1985, pages 7 and 12.
"The ultimate point should be to recognize that many nonhuman species are more than things, and have interests that deserve to be taken into account in much the way that human interests do — in much the same way, but not quite."
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Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, quoted in "Beastly Behavior?: A Law Professor Says It's Time to Extend Basic Rights to the Animal Kingdom." Washington Post, June 5, 2002, page C01.
Tripp, Clarence ('sexologist')
"The children [with whom Green had sex] thought he was wonderful, all the mothers thought he was wonderful. There was no force, no damage, no harm, no pain ... [just] two instances in which a young boy or girl — agreed to the sexual contact but then they found it very painful and yelled out when it actually took place. This was because they were very young and had small genitalia and Green was a grown man with enormous genitalia and there was a fit problem. But even there, there was no, never enough complaint to get him into any trouble. A very important observation ... If you go out and masturbate dogs — I was very good at this when I was a boy — the dog will love you to pieces because the dog has no efficient way to masturbate. He loves the orgasm as much as anybody else but he can't self-produce it. Now you just do this a time or two. The dogs do various things. You try this on all the neighborhood dogs ... Some dogs will always expect or try to talk you into doing it ... Other dogs will come to any human and say, please touch me here in a certain kind of way." [Interviewer: "Do you believe that Kinsey viewed Green's actions and material as ethically acceptable?"] "Totally ... he is clean as a whistle. Where it counts he is very clean. Nobody is objecting ... he had sex with all the relatives and brothers and sisters and aunts ... but nobody is objecting. He makes it pleasant ... Paedophilia is an almost non-existent kind of crime ... For instance, they use words like "child molestation." What is that? Nobody knows. "Abuse of children?" Are they talking about boxing them against the ear or hitting them with a stove pipe? Are they talking about tickling them a little? Are you talking about fondling?"
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Dr. Clarence Tripp, Kinsey's photographer, later a psychologist, pornographer and homosexuality expert witness. Interview performed for the British Television program entitled "Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles." Excerpts taken from videotaped interviews used in the production of the documentary. Compiled by Judith Reisman, Ph.D., August 26, 1998.
Tuchman, Barbara
"Men's affairs, from what I can tell, are dominated by aggression and alcohol."
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Barbara Tuchman, quoted in Sisterhood is Powerful (Robin Morgan, editor) [New York City: Vintage Books], 1970.
Turner, John (former Canadian Prime Minister)
"You don't know what the f*** you're talking about! You people are a bunch of extremists! I am in good standing with the Church!"
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Obscene comments by former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner to pro-lifers picketing outside the building where Turner acted as Chairman for the annual Toronto Cardinal's Dinner on October 18, 2001. Quoted in "Pro-Lifer: Former PM Used F-Word in Angry Comments at Cardinal's Dinner." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, October 19, 2001 [NOTE: Turner, while Justice Minister in 1969 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, passed the notorious Omnibus bill, which included the legalization of abortion and homosexuality. He has never repented of these acts and did not, of course, apologize for swearing at pro-lifers outside the event].
Turner, Ted
"Hey, God put 'em here for a reason. Who are we to exterminate 'em?"
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Ted Turner, who is referring to his advocacy for prairie dogs, considered destructive vermin by generations of western cattle ranchers, and who object to his protection of them. Turner is ardently pro-abortion. USA Today, July 17, 2000, page 1.
"I was looking at this woman, and I was trying to figure out what was on her forehead. At first I thought you were in the [Seattle] earthquake. What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox."
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Ted Turner's anti-Catholic remark on Ash Wednesday 2001. He was attending a farewell dinner for CNN anchor Bernard Shaw and saw a woman with ashes on her forehead. Britt Hume, Fox News, March 8, 2001.
Ted Turner's Ten Voluntary Initiatives
(1)
I promise to have love and respect for the planet Earth and living things thereon, especially my fellow species — humankind.
(2)
I promise to treat all persons everywhere with dignity, respect, and friendliness.
(3)
I promise to have no more than two children, or no more than my nation suggests.
(4)
I promise to use my best efforts to save what is left of our natural world in its untouched state and to restore damaged or destroyed areas where practical.
(5)
I pledge to use as little nonrenewable resources as possible.
(6)
I pledge to use as little toxic chemicals, pesticides, and other poisons as possible and to work for their reduction by others.
(7)
I promise to contribute to those less fortunate than myself, to help them become self-sufficient and enjoy the benefits of a decent life, including clean air and water, adequate food and health care, housing, education, and individual rights.
(8)
I reject the use of force, in particular military force, and back United Nations arbitration of international disputes.
(9)
I support the total elimination of all nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction.
(10)
I support the United Nations and its efforts to collectively improve the conditions of the planet.
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Ted Turner. "Ten Voluntary Initiatives," quoted in Charles Trueheart. "Ted Turner Updates Moses: Cable Mogul Delivers Ten Commandments." The Washington Post, October 31, 1989, pages C1 and C6.
"We have two courses of action. We can be a bunch of dumbasses and go to extinction like the dodo. Or we can be real smart and intelligent, and progress to a brave new world. What we need to have for 100 years is a one-child policy ... If everybody voluntarily had one child for 100 years, we'd basically be back to 2 billion people, and we could do it without a mass die-off and the kind of misery you see on TV in Rwanda ... "Increase and multiply," that's what is says in the Bible, right? Now scratch that out and say, "Multiply in a very limited way, because there's too many people." That's a big change for people to get used to."
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Ted Turner, quoted in Thomas Goetz. "Billionaire Boy's Cause: Can Three of the World's Richest Men Put Overpopulation Back on the Public Agenda?" Downloaded from The Village Voice Online at http://www.villagevoice.com:80/ink/news/40goetz.shtml on October 1, 1997 (no longer available).
"If I was doing it over again, I wouldn't have done it [have children]. But I can't shoot them now that they're here."
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Ted Turner, apologizing to an Atlanta real estate group for having five children. "Media Mogul Despises Own Children, Reveals Messianic Complex." LifeSite Daily News, September 18, 1998.
"If you're going to have 10 rules, I don't know if adultery should be one of them."
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Ted Turner, quoted in "CNN Founder Calls For One-Child Policy, Insults Pope." Catholic World News Service Daily News Briefs, February 17, 1999.
"Gorbachev has probably moved more quickly than any person in the history of the world. Moving faster than Jesus Christ did. America is always lagging six months behind. ... I think we can get by easily with a $75 billion military budget. Those bombers and all of this stuff is an absolute waste of money and a joke."
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Ted Turner, quoted in "TV Chieftain with an Outspoken Conscience." Time Magazine, January 22, 1990.
"We are often judgmental about people that are different from us. ... and we don't even understand what their problems are. ... A lot of students got killed at Tiananmen Square, but I remember several students got killed at Kent State. And, remember, they have a lot more students than we do. We shot down our own students."
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Ted Turner, promoting the new 24-part CNN documentary series "Cold War," as quoted in the September 24, 1998 Washington Post.
"Here they [the Soviets] are, trying to emulate our system, which is collapsing."
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Ted Turner to his wife, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, in Moscow Square in October of 1990. Quoted in National Review, November 19, 1990, page 13.
"The Christian faith — the Judeo-Christian tradition — says that God gave dominion over the planet to human beings; as for animals, they don't count for anything. That's another reason I didn't want to go there [Heaven]: No trees, no animals, just these fundamentalist Christians."
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Ted Turner, 1990 Humanist of the Year, "Humanism's Fighting Chance." The Humanist, January/February 1991, page 15.
Turtox Company
The Turtox Company, a division of the MacMillan Science Company, has issued a catalog entitled "Turtox '76: Turtox/Cambosco Life and Physical Science." Page 183 of this catalog, titled "Turtox Plastic Embedments," displays a four-month aborted baby encased in plastic with the explanation "These embryos range for [sic] 3 to 4 months in age. They have been bisected along the median, cleared and mounted naturally. Specify age or ages desired. [Catalog Number] D10.100, $97.50. NOTE: occasionally ages other than those listed above can be furnished. Please write us for current information."
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A description of preborn babies being encased in plastic and used as paperweights, as described in Nick Thimmesch. "Fetuses and Cosmetics: The French Connection." Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 1982. Also described in John W. Whitehead's The Stealing of America [Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books], 1987, page 56.
Tutu, Desmond (South African Nobel Peace Prize winner)
"I am a Socialist. I hate Capitalism."
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Sunday Times, December 29, 1985.
"One young man with a stone in his hand can achieve far more than I can with a dozen sermons."
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Daily Telegraph [London], November 16, 1984.
"Unless America puts pressure on South Africa, the only way forward is to overthrow the government with force. ... Is it not surprising that Black resistance has not yet blown up a school bus with White children? They are the softest targets!"
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Sunday Times, January 26, 1986.
"Imagine what would happen if only 30 percent of domestic servants would poison their employer's food."
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Volkskrant [Holland], November 15, 1984.
"Thank God I am black. White people will have a lot to answer for at the last judgment.
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Argus, March 13, 1984.
"There will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over."
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Boston Jewish Times, November 21, 1986.
Tyrer, Louise
"Girls who have not begun to menstruate need to be told they can become pregnant. Advise using condoms with foam if intercourse is sporadic or OCs [oral contraceptives] if is occurs regularly ... Oral contraceptives can be safely prescribed prior to menarche [first menstruation]."
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Louise Tyrer, M.D., former Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "What Every Teen Should Know About Contraceptives." Contemporary Pediatrics, October 1989, pages 68 to 82 and 94.
"More than three million unplanned pregnancies occur each year to American women; two-thirds of these are due to contraceptive failure."
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Louise Tyrer, former Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), in a letter to the Wall Street Journal dated April 26, 1991.
"It doesn't matter how much men scream and holler that they are being left out [of the abortion decision]. There are some things that they are never going to be able to experience fully. I say 'tough luck.'"
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Louise Tyrer, M.D., former Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in John Leo. "Sharing the Pain of Abortion." Time Magazine, September 26, 1983, page 78.
"We must fight to ensure that scientific progress and the right to practice medicine in the best interest of our patients is not stifled by the ideological perspectives of a few who would force their moral views on the rest of the world."
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Louise Tyrer, former Vice-President of Medical Affairs for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "Update on RU-486." The American Journal of Gynecologic Health. January/February 1989.
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