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HUMOR CLASSIC: Memorable Quotes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Oct 6 13:22:46 1995

To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 13:16:26 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>


Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:09:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Berczuk <berczuk@space.mit.edu>
From: Rod Holland - Sun BOS Software <Rod.Holland@East.Sun.COM>
Subject: history lesson
Subject: They Really Said That - , Politicians (fwd)
Author:  "Katrina Ghafghaichi" <Katrina_Ghafghaichi@adoc.xerox.com> at intergate
Date:    10/5/95 2:26 PM


     
"I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job" 
George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign
     
"This is a great day for France!"
Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral
     
"Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to 
come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? ... I bet if 
they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'" 
George Bush, talking about drug abuse to a group of students
     
"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've 
had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh...setbacks." 
George Bush
     
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and 
democracy. But that could change."
Dan Quayle
     
"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the 
Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right 
here."
Dan Quayle during a visit to Hawaii in 1989
     
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind-or not to have a mind. How true that 
is."
Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund
     
"I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of 
Baltimore-that is Maryland."
William Donald Schaefer, first inaugural address
     
"The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are 
more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at."
George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline
     
"I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what 
drives me."
George Bush
     
"If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced that 
we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without 
food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the 
unemployed."
Ronald Reagan
     
"My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia 
forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for a radio broadcast, unaware that 
the microphone was already on
     
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance 
from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there 
are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is 
oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Dan Quayle
     
"Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to 
succeed."
Ronald Reagan
     
Walter Mondale: George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize.
Bush: Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time.
     
     
     
     

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