Jack Cafferty Quotes

A collection of quotes from Jack Cafferty's appearances on The Situation Room is listed below. This page will occasionally be updated with more quotes.

"I don't understand this reluctance to say, Mr. Brown, you failed in your assignment. You're out of here. Go away. Go back to Colorado and go back to work for the Arabian Horse Association that we got you from." - Sept. 6, 2005

"The other sin is that these two lowlifes - and that's what they are - are going to be allowed to remain free pending sentencing on September 11th, and then I'm sure their lawyers will argue vigorously for them to remain free pending appeal. I assume they plan to appeal. It's too bad they weren't remanded into custody immediately like Dennis Kozlowski, that fat worm that ran Tyco was, and told to begin serving their sentence immediately." - on former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling - May 25, 2006

"Well, judging by the reaction on Capitol Hill, maybe the FBI ought to raid their offices more often. What is it, do you suppose, they're hiding in those offices? Once again, Congress is demanding a different set of standards for themselves." - May 24, 2006

"My belly is full of acid every time I look at the government in Washington, D.C. I've had it." -February 28, 2006

“President Bush names his homeland security adviser to investigate what went wrong with the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Frances Townsend is the one who mostly recently oversaw the reorganization of the nation’s intelligence services following the WMD debacle. Given the outcome of that effort she’ll probably conclude there was no hurricane.” - Sept. 20, 2005

"I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it? Where was the news conference?" - February 15, 2006

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"Has he been indicted yet?" – on former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay - Sept. 21, 2005

"We better all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that stands between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country.” - May 11, 2006

"Well, that would be a good idea. He was out in San Diego, I think, at a Naval air station giving a speech on Japan and the war in Iraq today. Based on his approval rating in the latest polls, my guess is getting back to work might not be a terrible idea." - August 30, 2005

CAFFERTY: Did you say the IRS building is flooded?
BLITZER: A little bit, yes.
CAFFERTY: Oh, sorry to hear that.
- June 27, 2006

"But the White House insists it's important for the president to express reservations about the constitutionality of certain provisions of laws, because, of course, he's the decider and he can decide these things just by looking at them." - June 27, 2006

BLITZER: But you did hear Ed Henry say it is a basement apartment, which is not necessarily all that desirable, and he's paying the fair market value.
CAFFERTY: Ya, and pigs fly upside down and the moon's made of green cheese and there's no quid pro quo from a lobbyist who is also your landlord. Do I look like I just fell out of the back of a vegetable truck to you?
BLITZER: No, you look like Jack Cafferty.
- On Rep. John Boehner renting an apartment owned by a lobbyist - February 8, 2006

"They're cutting $80 some million from New York City. And this was Ground Zero. What the hell is going on here?" - May 31, 2006

"It's becoming, Wolf, a situation where those who are in power only want those of us to vote who can help those of them who are power. It's a vicious, nasty little thing that's beginning to creep into the system here and there." - June 1, 2006

"He would strut around on Capitol Hill like a cocky little bandy rooster. But today he slithered away from Congress to await his fate at the hands of the criminal justice system. Good riddance." - On the resignation of Tom Delay - April 4, 2006

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