Dumbest Political Quotes of All Time

[Lil Missy]

''I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.''
—California Gov. Arnold Scharzengger

''We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we've had one under Obama.''
—Rudy Giuliani, Mr. 9/11, forgetting 9/11, Jan. 8, 2010

''I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it.''
—Rush Limbaugh, responding to criticism that he is sexist and defending his selection as one of the judges at the 2010 Miss America Pageant, ''Fox News' Fox & Friends,'' February 3, 2010

''We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.''
—Ann Coulter

''Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?''
—George W. Bush, Jan. 11, 2000

''Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.''
—Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.

more
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-dumbest-political-quotes.htm

[hobbit709]

1. "I am not a crook"-Richard Nixon

[Lil Missy]

2. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.

—Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) expressing concern during a congressional hearing that the presence of a large number of American soldiers might upend the island of Guam

[Lil Missy]

3. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

—President George W. Bush, Sept. 6, 2004

[Voice for Peace]

13. yeah lol that one.

[JackRiddler]

6. Are you sure that wasn't meant as a joke.

[Lil Missy]

11. Nope. Saw it on either KO or RM that night. He was serious.

[Dead_Parrot]

4. "Drill, baby, drill." nt

[sarge43]

5. Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

(As opposed to the dead who don't)

Ronald "Captain Obvious" Reagan

[pinboy3niner]

7. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

--Actress Brooke Shields, testifying before a House subcommittee on June 25, 1981.

[smokey nj]

8. "Poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich

doesn't mean you're willing to kill."

[Cyrano]

9. Dan Quayle tops the list with this one:

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

This was Quayle screwing up the motto of The United Negro College Fund -- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

[scrubthedata]

10. Very funny - and just the tip of the iceberg! n/t

[TransitJohn]

12. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. n/t

n/t

[PADemD]

14. Dan Quayle Quotes

"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state."
Dan Quayle

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
Dan Quayle

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
Dan Quayle

More here:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/danquayle102933.html

[awoke_in_2003]

15. "I know human

and fish can coexist peacefully" Dumbya

[obxhead]

16. "Oil rigs today generally don't cause spills, they are

technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn't come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore." - Barrack Obama

[treestar]

23. Barack, not Barrack

[obxhead]

24. DOH! That was a really dumb typo.

:blush:

[Raspberry]

17. One from Joe Biden:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'"

[lfairban]

26. First of all . . .

. . . Roosevelt was not president when the stock market crashed, and secondly, television was . . . oh, never mind.

[Raspberry]

18. One from the current President:

Obama: "Over the last fifteen months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states, I think — one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to … my staff could not justify it."

[Lil Missy]

19. ''What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

—Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.

[treestar]

20. Literacy problems solved:

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - George W. Bush, Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

[Dr Morbius]

21. No thank you, little boy; I don't like cheese.

Behold the power of cheese.

[Raspberry]

22. One from last week:

“If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.”--Milwaukee Co. Supervisor Peggy West

[sarge43]

25. Wow, simply wow. The S. Palin Non Squirtur Award goes to.

Ah Ms West, there is more than one border. If you look directly north .....

Oh never mind