"We formed in 1979, June, in Washington D.C. the Moral Majority, with a handful of people...which has grown now to over a hundred thousand priests and rabbis and pastors and blacks and whites and young and old and all kinds. Catholics are the largest part of the constituency -- 30% -- because of our strong pro-life emphasis."

-- Jerry Falwell, The Role of Religion in Politics

Here the enumeratio is found in the listing of the parts of the Moral Majority

Note: Can you spot the polysyndeton?

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-- Jimmy Hoffa, 1962 Address at Harvard University

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Seinfeld: "That's true."

Kramer: "It's very refreshing!"

  -- from the TV sitcom Seinfeld

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-- Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley Lecture "The Culture of the Self"

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- The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40% of the bombs in the first six months of [Operation] Enduring Freedom.

- The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.

- The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra.

- The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.

- The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War.

- The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11."

-- Zell Miller, 2004 Republican National Convention Address

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"For the first time in history, people of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths are standing side by side and working in closest cooperation for the great common cause. The seven organizations included in the campaign -- namely, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the Salvation Army -- are authorized by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to work for the soldiers and [unintelligible] in and near the camp."

-- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., United War Work Campaign Address

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-- Larry Rayfield Wright, Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Address

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"The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced into Congress in 1923. It was born in the era of women's suffrage amendment. I'll recite it for you in case you don't know it by heart. It says, 'Equality of life under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.' Section II says 'Congress will have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this Article.'  And Section III has it going into effect within two years."

-- Phyllis Schlafly, The ERA -- is there a future?

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"These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:

- It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

- It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.

- It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

- It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

- It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.

- It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

- It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will."

-- Hillary Clinton, Women's Rights are Human Rights

-- Condoleezza Rice - 9/11 Commission Hearing Statement

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