Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton -- on the news media's "dismissive" attitude about his presidential campaign: " . . . When you look at the lack of diversity from the editors and those in power, then you see them as automatically dismissive of anything that is not like them, which is white males. . . . I think we've seen some very blatant racial insensitivity in the coverage of this race so far."

Aaron McGruder on Americans: "Americans are not patriotic. Americans really don't care about freedom; they don't really care about liberty; they don't care about any of that. . . . Because if Americans really cared about any of that stuff, they would have been holding signs that said 'Sore Loser' the year before, when America was really attacked, when somebody took over the whole country who was never elected president."

California State Sen. Diane Watson, on Ward Connerly, an opponent of affirmative action: "He's married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."

Aaron McGruder on Big Oil: "I like conspiracy theories. . . . Everyone in the Bush administration is affiliated with oil and, you know, these are the last of the big oil reserves on the planet, and they needed to get the Taliban out of the way so they could run these pipelines through Afghanistan."

Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla.: during a recent congressional hearing, for declaring the Bush policy toward Haiti "racist" and complaining that the hearing's administration officials were "a bunch of white men." When Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, a Mexican-American, protested being called "white" and "racist," Brown snapped, "You all look alike to me."

Aaron McGruder on politics: "We've got to figure out a way to get the Nazis out of the White House. . . . One thing that you have to respect about the right wing is that they will steal, lie, cheat and murder to maintain power. They do it because that's how the game of international global politics is played. . . . But understand that this is not a nice game. It's ugly. . . . Al Gore won the election, and is not president because he was not willing to do what it took and Bush was."

Envelope, please. And the winner of this year's "McGruder" award -- for calling National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice a "murderer" -- Aaron McGruder!

Congratulations, A-Mc. You deserve it.