"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease." -- Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas

"I hope he's not long for this world." -- Nina Totenberg on General Jerry Boykin

"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." -- Nina Totenberg on Senator Jesse Helms

"For hypocrisy, for sheer gall, Gingrich should be hanged". -- Richard Cohen

"If we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone He...

"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease." -- Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas

"I hope he's not long for this world." -- Nina Totenberg on General Jerry Boykin

"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." -- Nina Totenberg on Senator Jesse Helms

"For hypocrisy, for sheer gall, Gingrich should be hanged". -- Richard Cohen

"If we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families." -- Alec Baldwin

"Shoot him with a .44 caliber Bulldog." -- Spike Lee on Charlton Heston

"There is a sound case to be made for dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on the Cuban section of Miami. The move would be applauded heartily by most Americans. Alas, Operation Good Riddance would require the sort of mature political courage sadly lacking in Washington, D.C., these days." -- Alexander Cockburn

"There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I’m going to use that word." -- Senator Robert Byrd

"Jews are diamond merchants with the blood of innocent babies on their hands. -- Al Sharpton

"He ran a gas station down in St. Louis." -- Hilary Clinton on Mahatma Gandhi

"They got the willies, they got the Buckwheats." -- Dan Rather

"Careful, Brown Sugar." -- Gary Trudeau on Condoleeza Rice

"You can’t go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-11 without an Indian Accent." -- Senator Joe Biden

“You’d think Thomas’ opinions were written in ebonics.” -- Senator Harry Reid on Justice Clarence Thomas before later referring