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25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Various Idiots
1) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they
all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And
so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway
so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." --Former
First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome
in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)
2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
--House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane
evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)
3) "What didn't go right?" --President Bush,
as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, after she urged him to fire
FEMA Director Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that
didn't go right" in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, Sept. 6, 2005
(Source)
4) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --President
Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged
Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005 (Source)
(Listen to
audio clip)
5) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in
New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively
well." --FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)
6) "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't
it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --President
Bush, to a divorced mother of three in Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
(Source)
(Listen to audio
clip)
7) "I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching
since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was
a male horse." --First Lady Laura Bush, at the White House
Correspondents dinner, April 30, 2005 (Source)
(Read more of Laura
Bush's comedy routine)
8) "Well, I think that's bullsh*t and I hate that. Just
let it go." --Commentator Bob Novak to James Carville,
before storming off the set at CNN, Aug. 4, 2005 (Source)
(Read more about Novak's
freakout)
9) "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating
things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult
the propaganda." --George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24,
2005 (Source
)(Listen to audio
clip)
10) "You are the best governor ever." --Supreme
Court nominee Harriet Miers, writing to Texas Gov. George Bush
in 1997 on his 51st birthday, adding that she found him "cool" and
that he and his wife, Laura, were "the greatest" and telling him:
"Keep up the great work. Texas is blessed." (Source)
11) "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?"
--President Bush, in a note to to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice during a U.N. Security Council meeting, September 14, 2005 (Source)
(Read more about Bush's
potty break)
12) "If one person criticizes [the local authorities'
relief efforts] or says one more thing, including the president of the United
States, he will hear from me. One more word about it after this show airs, and
I…I might likely have to punch him, literally." --Sen. Mary
Landrieu (D-LA), "This Week with George Stephanopoulous,"
Sept. 4, 2005 (Source)
13) "If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll
really vomit. I am a fashion god… Anything specific I need to do or tweak?
Do you know of anyone who dog-sits? … Can I quit now? Can I come home?
… I'm trapped now, please rescue me." --Ex-FEMA Director Michael
Brown, in various emails to colleagues and friends in the immediate
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (Source)
(Read more about Brownie's
idiotic emails)
14) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor
individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor
and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people
who are watching this story unfold." --CNN's Wolf Blitzer,
on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source)
15) "I question it based on a review of the video footage
which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office. She certainly
seems to respond to visual stimuli." --Sen. Bill Frist,
diagnosing Terri Schiavo's condition during a speech on the Senate floor, March
17, 2005 [The autopsy later revealed she was blind.] (Source)
16) "If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're
not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place
in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the
Coit Tower? Go ahead.'" –FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly,
after San Francisco voted to ban military recruiters from city schools, Nov.
8, 2005 (Source)
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Bill O'Reilly quotes)
17) "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination,
but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought
to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." --Pat
Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez, Aug. 22, 2005 (Source)
(Read more stupid
Pat Robertson Quotes)
18) "I do know that it's true that if you wanted to
reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every
black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." --Bill
Bennett, former Education Secretary and author of "The Book of
Virtues," Sept. 28, 2005 (Source)
19) "You think people can work all day and then pick
up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich
in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot
of them have never made an honest living in their lives." --Democratic
Party Chairman Howard Dean, speaking at the Campaign for America's
Future annual gathering, June 3, 2005 (Source)
20) "I think they're in the last throes, if you will,
of the insurgency." --Vice President Dick Cheney, on the
Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005 (Source)
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Cheney quotes)
21) "I am not going to give you a number for it because
it's not my business to do intelligent work." --Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while
testifying before Congress, Feb. 16, 2005 (Source)
(Read more Rumsfeldisms)
22) "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work."
--President Bush, after being thwarted by locked doors when
he tried to exit a news conference in Beijing in the face of hostile questioning
from reporters, Nov. 20, 2005 (Source)
(Read more about Bush's
door gaffe)
23) "Get some devastation in the back." --Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist, to a staff photographer as he posed
for a photo op while visiting tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka, Jan. 6, 2005 (Source)
24) "If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would
have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election."
--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, after all four of
his ballot initiatives were roundly defeated in the special election he called,
Nov. 10, 2005 (Source)
(Read more stupid
Schwarzenegger quotes)
25) "I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme
Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called."
--Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush
to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's White House records, Oct.
5, 2005 (Source)
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more stupid Dean quotes)