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The "So be it" Union

GROVER NORQUIST: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

RICK SANTORUM: "In a weekend interview with WTAE-TV about the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Santorum said: "You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.""

BARBARA BUSH: "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overhwlemed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle)--this is working very well for them."

JACK BURKMAN: On MSNBC's "Connected - Jack: "I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It's terrible. It's tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen."

CONDOLEEZA RICE: "Asked to say a few words from the pulpit, Rice, a preacher's daughter, said: "The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time." She added: "If we just wait."

DONALD RUMSFELD (April 2003 in reference to widespread chaos and looting in Iraq): "Stuff happens."

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