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Marie Antoinette: "Let 'em eat cake." |
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Barbara Bush (observing the Astrodome full of Katrina
evacuees): "So many people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway
[chuckle], so this is working very well for them." |
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Nikita Khruschchev: "We will bury you." |
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George W. Bush: "Bring ‘em on!" |
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Irving Fisher (1929): "'Stocks have reached what looks
like a permanently high plateau."
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Dick Cheney (March 16, 2003): ""My belief is we
will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." |
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Henry Hyde: "There are so many women on the floor of
Congress, it looks like a mall." |
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Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow
unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
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Unknown Bystander at Kitty Hawk: "I told Orville and I
told Wilbur, it’ll never get off the ground."
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George W. Bush: "You’re doing a heckuva job,
Brownie." |
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George W. Bush: "'I have opinions of my own --strong
opinions-- but I don't always agree with them." |
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George W. Bush: "Our enemies are innovative and
resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country
and our people, and neither do we."
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Ann Coulter: "There's a reason hurricanes are named
after women and homosexual men."
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Ann Coulter. God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape
it. It's yours." |
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Orrin Hatch: "Capital punishment is our way of
demonstrating the sanctity of life."
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Pat Robertson: "My personal feeling is that oral sex is
against nature." |
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John Ashcroft: "I feel the best way to ensure
Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only
through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a
controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of
all people."
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George W. Bush: "I don't know that atheists should be
considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under
God." |
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Bill Gates: "No one will need more than 637Kb of memory
for a personal computer."
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Tom DeLay (to young Katrina evacuees in the Astrodome):
"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" |
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Pat Robertson: "Feminism encourages women to leave
their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become
lesbians."
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Antonin Scalia: "I even take the position that sexual
orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged." |
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Cardinal Bellarmine (1615): "To assert that the earth
revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a
virgin."
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Dick Cheney: "I had other priorities in the 60's than
military service." |
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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 those people."
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George W. Bush (May 1, 2003): "Major combat operations
in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have
prevailed." |
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Yogi Berra: "If you come to a fork in the road, take
it. |
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Donald Rumsfeld: "I believe what I said yesterday. I
don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I
said." |
