I remember hearing Judge Judy say it.

That alone would be enough for me to consider it bullshit.

Gotta pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
Every man for himself.
I got mine, so fuck off.

Some of Hillary's dad's other favorite expressions

He was apparently quite an asshole and cold as ice, sometimes psychologically abusive.

Sander (D)

Clinton (R)

Clinton (D)

Take your pick on the last two

... when she informed him she was going to marry Bill Clinton.

She went from being against Bernie's single payer to saying that before Obamacare was Hillarycare and my head was spinning.

"If something sounds to good to be true, it probably is too good to be true."

It's a duck.

Clinton sure seems like a duck (Republican) to me.

Can't wait for the PA primary.

That is such a Republican sentiment. She doesn't even seem to notice it.

"The Scarcity of Hope" and "Dashed Dreams from my Father"

I think she is taking this "Obama is my brother from another mother" thing in the wrong direction

It was too good to be true?

Hillary is about telling us that it's all just NOT POSSIBLE.

Tired of her Nelly Olsen negativity. (Little House on the Prairie fans will get the reference. hehe )

Like her speeches to Goldman Sachs are worth $250,000/hr?

no party just a third way

Because she doesn't know who she is, imo. I think Hillary has some issues with insecurity and identity.

"It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It's political Daddyism, and it's as old as demagogues and despotism."

"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle."


"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."

And, a contextual classic : "The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up.... He has no discipline."

Republican, conservative and strict, and recognize the authoritative attitude that comes out under pressure. My older siblings still cop it when they lose patience and feel like they're losing control.

Interesting to hear these old familiar platitudes in response to someone who is presenting plans to expand freedoms and restore civil rights. 'Oh no you can't' 'This will never come to pass!' and 'If it sounds too good it is' are all ways of keeping someone on a leash. Of course I rebelled. then