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We've all let fly from our mouths words we wish we had swallowed instead. For us, it means a little embarrassment. For people in high places, it can mean public ridicule. Unfortunately many of the fools quoted below stand by what they have said. For mindless rantings from the religious right, visit Quacks. For blatant ignorance from the mouths of the politically powerful and hopelessly dense, visit Punks. A fool is consumed by his own lips. |
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As for that V.P. talk all the time, I tell ya, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me: What is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? —Sarah Palin, to CNBC’s Larry Kudlow The talking motion picture will not supplant the regular silent motion picture. There is such a tremendous investment to pantomime pictures that it would be absurd to disturb it. With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the
Japanese auto
industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market.
Old science is not good science to teach only as a fact. Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find
work. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
There is a physical difference between the white and black
races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races from living
together in terms of social and political equality. This
case is a loser. The bomb will never go off. I speak as an
expert in explosives.
Truth will become the hallmark of the Nixon administration. ...a dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and
adolescent emotions. Christianity and Democracy are inevitably enemies. |
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God himself could not sink this ship. The Titanic is unsinkable. I think there is a world market for about five computers. While theoretically and technically
television may be feasible,
commercially and financially it is an impossibility. Gentlemen, you have come sixty days too
late. The depression is over. Hemingway was a jerk. It is envy that makes a Communist, Nazi, or Moslem Terrorist. It is the
fear of being envied that makes a liberal. We're going to have the best
educated American people in the world. Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes. It's always better to take advantage of your
chances as they come along.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. He is one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge.
Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this
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You'd better learn secretarial work or else get
married. Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on
history.
All forms of leftism and liberalism are based on an atavistic belief in
Black Magic. All are based on the primitive fear of the envious Evil Eye.
Knowing of your congregation's deep involvement in the major social and
constitutional issues of our country is a great inspiration to me. People will soon get tired of staring at a
plywood box every night.
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our
children. 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. The singer will have to go. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky. |
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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. What a waste it is to lose one's
mind, or not to have a
mind. ...too racy.
The issues are much too important for the Chilean
voters to be left to
decide for themselves. You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck. Facts are stupid things. What has America done for anybody? Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
The future will be better tomorrow.
This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential
mential [sic] losses. An orgy of vulgar noise. |
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You will find it a distinct help... if you know and look as if you know what you
are doing. Always chew your pretzels before you swallow. Airplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value
whatsoever. Republicans understand the importance of
bondage between a mother and child. I don't need bodyguards. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his
face and not
Gary Cooper. People are becoming too intelligent ever to have another war. There is not the slightest indication that nuclear
energy will ever be
obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at
will.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. There will never be a bigger
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I understand small business growth. I was one. [It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. It will be years—not in my
time—before a woman will become prime minister.
No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to
nobody
in particular?
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication. We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. A few months ago I told the American people I did not
trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me
that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it's not.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. ...impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.
The best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most
objective sources I have are people on my staff. Just a passing fad. |
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Childrens do learn. 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. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western
World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into
a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic
violence. It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.
The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued to the screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. Therefore the showmen are convinced that for this reason, if not other, television will never be a serious competitor of broadcasting. This, the greatest of all wars, is not just another war—it is the last
war! We don't need you. You haven't got through
college yet. We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. 640K
ought to be enough for anybody. Who wants to hear actors talk?
No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught
napping. Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
X-rays will prove to be a hoax. The Constitution has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in extra-marital
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