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...it is time to sit down and shut up. You have shamed yourself beyond belief. While you are at it, please fire the idiot you call a campaign manager. He clearly ain`t up to the job. - In response to Senator George Allen`s use of an obscure racial slur on the campaign trail

- James Landrith

When a woman drinks it`s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It`s a slur on the divine in our nature.

- Marguerite Duras

It was a most unfortunate racial slur. There can be no excuse for what was said. Dave Lenihan has been let go. ... There is enough hate. We certainly are not going to fan those flames. That is not what we`re about.

- Barbara Saunders