On ex-altar boys, marriage, blah blah blah

QUOTABLES WORTH REPEATING:


From the Youngstown Vindicator, via the Plain Dealer:

"(I am) saddened that the work that I have done to feed the poor, clothe the naked, help cure the sick and to bring an end to the death penalty has fallen on deaf ears.  I guess being an altar boy for six years didn't qualify me for dispensation." - State Rep.  Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown),  after learning that his invitation to be the commencement speaker  at a Catholic  nursing school had been rescinded by Bishop  George V. Murry because Hagan supports abortion rights.


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"We've arrived at a point where the president of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage" - Traditional marriage authority Rush Limbaugh, having been married four times himself.

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"I'm sorry, I made a mistake and it won't happen again." - King Juan Carlos of Spain, recovering from a fractured hip suffered when he  fell off an elephant  while  hunting in Botswana.

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"This is the first time that George Clooney has ever been photo-shopped out of a picture.  Never happened before, never happen again." - President Obama at a Hollywood fund-raiser with Clooney at his side, quipping that Clooney had been  taken out of the Hope poster used by the Obama campaign in 2008.

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"If you live long enough, you  get old" - Grumpy Abe