Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 31, 2001 | by John Elvin

"We don't owe America anything. America owes us."

-- The Rev. Al Sharpton, addressing the State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta.

"It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face-to-face meeting."

-- A "quote of the day" circulating on the Internet, provided by INSIGHT readers Kate and Todd Dierdorff.

"I think there is a conservative conspiracy going on in Congress, especially the House of Representatives."

-- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, claiming that conservatives are enemies of the working man and condemning the "sleaziness of the Republicans in the House of Representatives."

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