Jim Gibbons (U.S. Politician) - Quotations

Quotations

• "Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals… go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else…. It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket .".

• "Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist.".

• "... I learned an important lesson, never to offer a helping hand to anybody ever again", following the alleged assault on the woman in the parking lot in October 2006.

• "I would have loved to have been the committee chairman and when the choice was made to go with Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), of course that disappointed me...but as my mother would say, when one door closes, another opens up", regarding Gibbons' non-selection for chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and the possibility that he could instead run for Governor.

• “Racial profiling should be for terrorism. If you look like and act like a terrorist, if you’re coming across as a bad person, you’re going to do harm to our citizens, whether it’s deal drugs, commit crime or commit a terrorist act. Absolutely we ought to profile everybody that looks like a terrorist. I don’t have a problem with that. But if they want to have a racial profile of Irishmen, then I’m going to question that.”