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Stupid Quotes

“If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.”-Dan Quayle

“Please provide the date of your death.” From an IRS letter

“I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.” – Richard (Dicky) Nixon

“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”-Lee Iacocca

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.” – -Samuel Goldwyn

“We understand the importance of having bondage between parents and their children.” – Dan Quayle

“The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman.” -Rear Admiral James R. Hogg

“If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” -Brooke Shields

“Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.”-Batman costume warning label

“The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others.”-Gerry Brown

“I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.” -George Bush

“I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”-Colonel Oliver North

“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”-Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

“The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”-Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst

“Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.”-Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel

“I’ve read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents.”-George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

“We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.”-Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor

“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.” – Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

“Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, “Thank God, I’m still alive.” But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.” – Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D, Calif.)

“You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy!”- President Bill Clinton, looking at the recently-discovered Inca mummy “Juanita”

“First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I’m a night owl.”- Marion Barry

“It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment,it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”-Dan Quayle

“If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.”-Dan Quayle

“We are not ready for an unforseen event that may or may not occur.”-Dan Quayle

“Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a –it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it’s got a particularly unique situation.” -Dan Quayle

“It is wonderful to be here today in the great state of Chicago” – Dan Quayle

“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system!” – Dan Quayle, on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.” -Dan Quayle

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” – -Dan Quayle

“Potatoe” -Dan Quayle