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Punisher Annual #1

Spider-man – They’ll be given a fair trial — you remember — the hallmark of a democracy?  You like democracy.  Don’t you?

Punisher – Why?  You want to put this to a vote?

Secret Warriors #8

Norman Osborn – But is a secret something we don’t tell the people, or something the people don’t want to be told?  The man I work for thinks it’s the latter.  My boss — the big man in the big white house — will leave his job with bloody hands like every President before him.  It’s the dirty work he does so the good people of this country can sleep at night.  And I know you know it’s true… look at the similarities between how we and our opponents behave — compare our methods.  You think just because we’re a democracy we can afford to be less ruthless than our enemies?  Of course not.

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Avengers: The Initiative #28

The Hood – Arizona’s out.  Too friendly with the targets. And California’s a bunch of left bleedin’ hearts.  We could try Washington, or Montana…

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Victoria Hand – Butterball… what can I say?  He’s a surprise hit.  Middle America loves him.

Norman Osborn – Of course.  He’s fat and stupid.  Just like them.

Dark Reign: The List – X-Men

Victoria Hand – But… Director Osborn– Why?  There’s no strategic or political or military virtue in–

Norman Osborn – Because Namor screwed me over!  So now he gets a message!  Nobody does what he does and gets away clean.  Revenge doesn’t need strategic or military virtue.

Uncanny X-Men #515

Namor – Is this place… a refugee camp?  A reservation?  Are you a hotel, a hostel, a fortress?  Perhaps a compound.  Or a sovereign state…?

Hank McCoy – Or a prison.

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Professor X – No jetpack this time?

Cyclops – You want to save the jetpack for big entrances, Charles.  Besides, we’re trying to convince the U.S. we’re not a bigger threat than Castro — We can settle for the unspectacular.

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Ex Machina #45

Mayor Hundred – Whatever, it’ll be your house in a few months anyway.

Dave – See, I don’t know about that.  Odds are I’m going to have Bob Kerrey running to the left of me, Ogniebene to my right and Bloomberg down the middle.  And most New Yorkers are still smarting from the last time they elected a black man Mayor.

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Dave – We could be the first city in America to announce a multimillion-dollar plan to get the morning-after pill into more women’s hands, and I think we should.

Mayor Hundred – After four years of me successfully dodging that shitstorm, now you want me to use taxpayer dollars on abortion pills?

Dave – That’s RU-486.  Morning-after is just emergency contraception.  No different than us handing out condoms on the subway.

Mayor Hundred – Except it is.  I’m with you that abstinence is a fairy tale, but I think some birth control options are more… hot-button than others.

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Dave – But… you’re pro-choice.  Aren’t you?

Mayor Hundred – That’s what certainly what everyone believes.

Dave – And what the hell do you believe?

Mayor Hundred – That public servants should try to avoid genital politics and concentrate on actually getting shit done.

Punisher #9

Microchip – He’s Dead Frank.  Deader than the G.O.P.

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DMZ #45

Matty Roth – On behalf of the Delgado Administration, I would like to declare that the city of Manhattan is now a nuclear-armed state.  There will be no tests or inspections.  For those in a position to confirm, the serial number of the device is 25287.  The people of this beleaguered city voted and gave us independence, an identity, a nation.  We hope the world realizes that we are prepared to deter and defend that at all costs.  Thank you.

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Matty Roth – A majority needs to be overwhelming to work here… overpowering.  So how do you move the people?  How do you move them when they don’t know how to move themselves?  Living “post-racial” was one thing.  Now let’s see what post-nuclear can do.

Unknown Soldier #11

Jack – Nobody wages a war without doing horrible things.  Believe me… I know.

War of Kings: Who Will Rule?

Gladiator – War did this.  With our violence we have injured the very matter of the stars.

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Crystal – We are coming here as conquerors.  As invaders.  That’s not something I ever expected to be.

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Dark Avengers #8

Simon Trask – “For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, and with the upright is his secret counsel.”

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Scott Summers – We reject Norman Osborn’s pogroms against mutants.  We reject the hate crimes of Trask and his ilk.

Dark Wolverine #77

Ben Grim – Trusting all that media spin.  Bunch of idiots.

Johnny Storm – People believe what they want to.

Daken – Until something happens to make them stop.

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Daken – Not every revolution begins with a bang.  Sometimes just a whisper.  The first thread of a well-laid plan.  Blood doesn’t make you a prince.  And it won’t build you an empire.  But knowing the right people sure as hell will.

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Dark Reign: The Hood #4

Unknown – About time we got a good storm here.  This climate change, it’s messin things up.

Wizard – Fah.  I could reverse global warming if I felt like it.

Ex Machina #44

Mitchell Hundred – I know how it looks, but the terrorists hit the World Trade Center the day of the primaries, remember?  It makes sense that they might try to strike during another… you know, demonstration of democracy in action.

the Mighty Avengers #28

Scientific Beast – Let us see what their “Fair and Balanced News” makes of this.

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DMZ #44

Cult Leader – The question is, do you think it can come back?  Do you think it can ever be the same again?

Tony – … probably not.

Cult Leader – I think you’re right.  I think whatever happens, whenever it happens, this city’ll be another Mogadishu, another Monrovia, another Port-Au-Prince.

Tony – That’s harsh.

Cult Leader – The sun is setting on America.  We’re just another failed state, our major cities turned into ghettos.

Fables #87

Bigby – There was no big threat.  No secret, evil group of all-powerful liberals.

Snow – Literals.

Bigby – Right.  Literals.

Green Lantern Corps. #39

Senator Diro – We now have powers — powers to protect ourselves from aliens — all aliens.  We want you and your ring off our world.

Arisia – Get your hands off me — you racist bastard.

Uncanny X-Men #514

Emma Frost – This is was, you cretins– and you’re either with us of against us.  Make up your minds and get out of the way.

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Captain America: Reborn #2

Norman Osborn – The only key that isn’t a bullet to the head. I mean.  Not that the man who helped kill Captain America should be expecting anything but an execution.

Crossbones – Right.  Was there some trial I slept through?

Norman Osborn – Trial… now who’s the comedian?  You’re an enemy combatant who committed a terrorist act on domestic soil… No one has even suggested there would ever be a trial.

Dark Reign: Zodiac #2

Zodiac – America the beautiful?  The founding fathers? The constitution? It’s all a scam.

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Zodiac – Cause enough chaos in the world and there’s room to do anything.  Now let’s find out just how much room…

War of Kings #6

Crystal – Transforming all species against their will would not have resulted in peace.  Can’t you see that?  We don’t have the right.  It’s a tyranny comparable to Vulcan’s aggression.  Sometimes being a King is about having the strength to make a hard decision.  And sometimes.  It’s about having the strength not to.  You are a King.  My lord… not a God.

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Dark X-Men #2

Michael Pointer – This blood on my hands is mine to clean.  You’d just replace it with the blood of your enemies.

Norman Osborn – Michael… let us be clear about something.  There will always be blood.  This is the world we live in.  The question is, whose blood will it be?

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Norman Osborn – You may ask why I want you.  I really like your war.  I’d like to be able to say to the daylight side of the U.S. Government that my people are making major advances in the “War on Drugs.”  I’d like to show them that when one sets aside law and gives order it’s due — Then “wars” which were previously hypocritical gestures — can be fought for real and won.

Unknown Soldier #10

Moses – But what is it exactly you imagine you do here, for us?

Mrs. Wells – I, uh… I guess I drag the media to a place where it wouldn’t normally go, you know?  I take people who follow the most vapid aspects of my culture back home, and I force them to see me in the context of the world.

Moses – Sounds like performance art to me.

Mrs. Wells –  Well, that implies this is all some fiction.  But it isn’t, is it?  Don’t get me wrong.  I also want to understand.  To talk.  To learn… to educate.

Moses – To be honest, Mrs. Wells, I think you push bad PR for a continent that has a PR problem to begin with —

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Moses – Rich people drinking and throwing money at the problem?  Aid just keeps pouring into the continent and social conditions get worse and worse and nothing ever changes!

Soldier – Sir, I need you to calm down.

Mrs. Wells – Jack, relax, okay?  I’m willing to have a conversation with you, but…

Moses – Investment in our markets! Honest trade with the outside world! Micro-loan agencies! Stable banks! Leaders who give a fuck! That’s what we need!

Soldier – Back it up right now!

Moses – We need the world to stop stealing from us with one hand and giving back crumbs with the other!

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Moses – How can you empower an African child!?  With photographs?  By adopting them?  The answer is you can’t!  They need Africans to look up to!!

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Avengers: The Initiative #26

Constrictor – Look.  I’m far from the only American to lose limbs serving their country.  Like them, I’m proud of what I’ve done.

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The Hood – Taskmaster’s right.  You’re a natural.  Comparing us to the troops.  That bit about you holding your kids… you should get an Oscar.

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Ultragirl – So the end justifies the means?

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The Hood – When you see some guy who ran a company into the ground walk away with forty million, is he wearing a skull mask and underwear outside his pants?  No.  He’s wearing a suit, and nine times out of ten, even though he’s into shady crap up to his eyeballs, he gets away scot-free.  The guys in power rip off the public a hell of a lot worse than we ever did.  But now —  finally — we are the guys in power.

Dark Wolverine #76

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli

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