Thursday quotables...

"Just when we thought Ann Coulter couldn't take the politics of personal destruction any lower, she proved us wrong," Edwards said. "Her outrageous comments are inexcusable and should not be tolerated in the public dialogue."
- JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic candidate for president

"I hope that [President] Bush follows suit!"
- ROSIE O'DONNELL on Thursday's "The View" when asked her opinion about British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigning.

"Dream on my friend, dream on."
- Conservative panelist ELISABETH HASSLEBECK's response to Rosie's comment.

"On the pop front, I greeted with relief the news that Rosie O'Donnell will be leaving ABC's "The View." Joy Behar will get some oxygen at last. What a crass solipsist, clod and yahoo O'Donnell is -- and what a bad advertisement for both liberalism and lesbianism. I thoroughly enjoyed Donald Trump putting the shiv to her with his eye-opening insults of withering accuracy."
- CAMMILLE PAGLIA in her column on Salon.com

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“It is irrelevant. The story was about sexual abuse, and the person going back to fight for a child that was abused, and what they’re doing today to try and change laws to protect children. It’s not a profile on Thomas Roberts... I don’t want to draw all these correlations between something that’s not an issue to me – being gay is not an issue to me, being sexually abused; that’s an issue. That’s a problem, that’s illegal. Sexual abuse: issue. Gay: not an issue.”
-Former CNN Anchor THOMAS ROBERTS to AfterElton.com regarding why his being gay was not brought up in his televised interview with Anderson Cooper about his being molested as a child by a priest.

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"There has always been a huge cult following for the show in the gay community. When the show was originally airing, the gay bars on Saturday night would all shut off their music at nine o'clock, put on the show, and then start up the music and start dancing again afterwards. We always got such a kick out of that."
- BETTY WHITE telling the Wall Street Journal about the big gay following of "The Golden Girls"