El Ministerio de la Verdad

“Wall Street doesn’t do things because it’s good for the country, Wall Street does things because it’s good for Wall Street”
- Jim Ellis (BusinessWeek)

Barack Obama: “In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing.”
Compañera de trabajo: “That was us!”
- Humor inglés

“Couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled, or something, to get here?”
- Congresista Gary Ackerman (preguntándole a los CEOs de las automotrices de EU al enterarse que volaron en jets privados a Washington DC para pedir un rescate financiero)

“The story that systemically markets don’t make mistakes and that only states make mistakes is I think not going to be plausible for the forseeable future. And for me who believes in a mixed economy, a keynesian operation of the economic management, that is a huge, fantastic moment. I’ve waited 30 years for it, thank [...]

“Creo que forma parte de la vida de todas las personas, y yo en la medida en que sienta que la historia que me ofrezcan lo amerita y tengo ganas de formar parte del proyecto, me desnudaré.”
- Ana Claudia Talancón (actriz, diosa)

“Not bad for a country that has no swimming pools and very little soap.”
- John Coates (director del Comité Olímpico Australiano, sobre el hecho de que Australia podría verse superada por Gran Bretaña en el medallero por primera vez en 20 años)

“Dejaré de llamarle pelele y ladronzuelo, aunque existen muchos sinónimos.”
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador (a Calderón si es que acepta un debate público sobre la reforma petrolera)

“Si le doy de comer a los pobres, me dicen que soy un santo. Pero si pregunto por qué los pobres pasan hambre y están tan mal, me dicen que soy un comunista.”
- Hélder Câmara (Arzobispo brasileño, 1909-1999)

“Wey, venía hoy en el metro y me preguntaba, ¿qué sentirían esta bola de moscas si supieran que El Gran Haplo viaja con ellos?”
- Haplo (via MSN)

“I’m not a brief kind of girl.”
- Michelle Bachelet (Presidenta de Chile durante su discurso en la London School of Economics 04/04/07)

“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
- John Stuart Mill

“La [narrativa] de Felipe Calderón se vuelve la vieja historia de siempre; la historia de los cambios incrementalistas y los ajustes minimalistas. De los presidentes que prefieren tolerar las grandes omisiones y negociar las pequeñas sumisiones. De los políticos que prefieren operar dentro de las constricciones existentes antes que desmantelarlas. De los líderes incapaces de [...]

“When I am this party’s nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran; or that I supported Bush-Cheney policies of not talking to leaders that we don’t like. And he will not be [...]

“I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., [...]

“We fear death and dismemberment, we fear pain, insanity and loss, we ever fear sexuality, and it’s only by addressing these fears that we avoid living in a state of constant trepidation. Horror can speak of such things in a way that a more realistic or naturalistic genre can’t. Horror is a leap of faith [...]

“What’s happening, presumably, is that modern movement conservatism attracts a certain personality type. If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don’t belong. If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ woes, you fit right in.”
- Paul Krugman (Economista y columnista del New York Times 05/10/07)

“Los únicos terroristas, los grandes delincuentes no están en el pueblo. A dichos delincuentes y terroristas búsquenlos en este gobierno.”
- Comunicado del EPR sobre los ataques en Veracruz (13/09/07)

“I pray that this event ends global warming the same way that Live Aid ended world hunger”
- Chris Rock (Presentador en Live Earth 07/07/07)

“No estoy huyendo.”
- Pedro Ángel Palou (Rector de la UDLA tras salir apresurado del campus antes de que terminara la ceremonia de graduación 08/06/07)

“Sale un doctor y entra un doctor.”
- Pedro Ángel Palou (Rector de la UDLA 23/05/07)