you won't get that on fox news

While perusing the Best of Notable Quotables 2005 list from Kithcart's blog, I found this one from CNN founder Ted Turner on the Late Show. It's a good one. Click above for the audio file, or click the picture for the Windows Media Player video.

"Cutting the [worldwide] military budgets back by ten percent and using that money to basically solve the real, the real serious poverty problems in the world would be a much better investment in fighting terrorism than — you don’t stop terrorism with tanks, you stop it with giving people hope so they won’t want to blow themselves up."
— CNN founder Ted Turner on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman


Also of note:

Rosie O’Donnell: "This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague. This man lied to the American public about the reasons for invading a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11. And as a Democrat, as a member of this democracy...I feel I have a responsibility to speak out, as does every other person who disagrees with this administration. And it’s scary in a country that you can say something against the President and then worry about your career..."

"Most Republicans who are registered Republicans are decent, honest good people who you have a difference of opinion with. The leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right."
— Actor Alec Baldwin during an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher