These are your Idiots – Quotes
“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
“Yes, maam? Right here, this lady. No, she! Yes, right, second row. Next to the guy in the blue shirt, holding her left hand up. It’s a he? Sorry about that. Gotta be careful. I’m very sorry. Go ahead! I’m, excuse me, I’m very sorry. Go, ah, I, a thousand apologies, go ahead.”
- George Bush Sr., Former U.S. President, at a press conference
“It is white.”
- George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London
“I didn’t realize I was in a Buddhist temple.”
- Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President when asked about his illegal fundraising activities that took place in a Buddhist temple.
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.”
- Everett Dirksen, Congressman
“How can a guy this politically immature seriously expect to be president?”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., assessing John F. Kennedy’s chances in the 1960 U.S. election
Love This one:
“Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do.”
- Hillary Clinton, former first lady, at a Democratic fundraiser
“Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk… I think it was those Irish guys.”
- Jesse Ventura, Minnesota governor
This is one of my personal favorites…
“I don’t think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?”
- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of The Nation of Islam
“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”
- Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
Wow…I’m physically exhausted. More to come….
…and thanks to these guys: http://www.amusingfacts.com/stupid/
Farrakhan is really a scary figure.