I Can’t Believe They Said That!
Dan Quayle: “potatoe”
A Massachusetts politician was accused of attacking and cursing another politician during a local meeting. The first politician was quoted in the local paper, “I did not attack anyone or say a single cuss word, and anyone who says I did is a damn liar.”
Bill Clinton in 1992: “I will have the most ethical administration in the nation’s history.”
Romanian minister on homosexuality: “We can’t legalize homosexuality. Half of the country will become homosexuals.”
Bill Clinton at his 1999 State of the Union Address to Congress: “You don’t have to pass a law against taking gifts. Just stop taking them. You don’t have to have a law for everything.”
Al Gore, touring Monticallo with Clinton after the 1992 election, looking at busts of our founding fathers, “Who are these guys?”
Right-winger Ronald Reagan: “This country means freedom for religion, not freedom from it.”
Al Gore after the Bulls won another championship: “How about that Michael Jackson!”
Former Mayor Marion Barry: “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
Charles DeGaulle: “China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
Philadelphia Phillies manager Ozark: “Half this game is ninety percent mental.”
Jason Kidd: “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
Dan Quayle: “It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
Dan Quayle: “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with all those people.”
Mariah Carey: “Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean, I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”