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"You would believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners." (June 2005)

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), on Democrats protesting the nuclear option:

"[It's] the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It's mine.' " (May 2005)

Entertainer Harry Belafonte:

"We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended." (January 2006)

Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, on those who support the estate tax:

"That's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. . . the morality that says it's okay to do something to a group because they're a small percentage of the population." (October 2003)

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), describing Guantanamo detainees:

"Hitler, in his philosophy, was, you know, he hated Jews, he was murdering Jews, and there were some people he liked. But he never went to the level that these [extremists] are going to." (July 2005)

Commentator Michael Savage, on George Soros's campaigning against Bush:

"I couldn't believe what I heard when I turned on C-SPAN today, and heard billionaire George Goebbels Soros attacking Bush." (June 2004)

Humanities professor Camille Paglia, on students tape-recording professors as evidence of liberal bias:

"When students become snitches, we are heading toward dictatorship by Mao's Red Guards or Hitler Youth." (March 2006)

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of the Nation.