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You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest. -- Kenneth Blackwell
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson. -- Chris Rock
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls. -- Ann Richards
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues. -- Jello Biafra
The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser. -- Chris Matthews
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters. -- Ed Koch
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. -- Charles B. Rangel
I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't. -- Chris Matthews
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned. -- Jackie Jackson
One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent. -- Jackie Jackson
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. -- Jackie Jackson
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville. -- Jesse Jackson
You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from. -- Jesse Jackson
I just voted for Jesse Jackson ! -- Eddie Murphy
He was tenser than Jesse Jackson on Father's Day. -- Scott Adams
Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself. -- Mark Steyn
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If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president. -- Fred Allen
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture -- Mark Steyn
You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest. -- Kenneth Blackwell
Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson? -- Rush Limbaugh
Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color." -- Ernest Hollings
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound? -- Lou Reed
Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted. -- Ted Nugent
The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household. -- Rich Galen
I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics. -- Donna Brazile
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. -- Jay Leno
I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles. -- Marlon Wayans
I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress. -- Evangeline Lilly
It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work. -- Jill Stein
Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant. -- Jay Leno
Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden. -- Argus Hamilton
When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business. -- Leah D. Daughtry
Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night. -- Jay Leno
Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child. -- Jay Leno
I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry. -- Jay Leno
Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'. -- Jon Stewart
Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's private meetings with the president and confidential girl talk with Linda Tripp. Just think of the news stories we've watched on television... -- Ted Haggard
Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize. -- Jay Leno
It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics. -- Kay Coles James
Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for? -- John McLaughlin
The boar held a VCR reote control and cackled maliciously as he watched a video of U.S. politicians grinning with their one-time budy Saddam--Dick Cheney, Gulf War-era Secretary of State James Baker, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, to the tune of Taking Care of Business. And then the viewers saw themselves in a mirror emblazoned with the words You are a witness. -- Wafaa Bilal

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