The Stupidest Things Ever Said By Politicians

A zebra can not change its spots. - Vice President Al Gore

Don't believe any false rumors unless you hear them from me. - New Orleans mayor Vic Schiro

Things happen more frequently in the future than they do in the past. - Washington governor Booth Gardner

Democrats did very well in Democratic primaries. - Dee Dee Myers, then Clinton's press secretary

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

People don't want handouts! People want hand jobs! - Connecticut governor William O'Neill at a 1998 political rally (His comment was followed by riotous applause.)

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I will anticipate what they will do. - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno

Who are these guys? - Vice President Al Gore referring to the busts of Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and the Marquis de Lafayette on a televised tour of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.

Rural Americans are real Americans. There's no doubt about that. You can't always be sure with other Americans. Not all of them are real. - Dan Quayle in a campaign speech

U.N. goodwill may be a bottomless pit, but it's by no means limitless. - John Major, British prime minister

Girls shouldn't play with men's balls. Their hands are too small. - Senator Wally Horn of Iowa talking about girls' sports in school -and specifically, what size basketball they should play with.

The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally and internationally. - British prime minister John Major

I was thinking of you last night, Helmut, because I watched the Sumo wrestling on television. - President Bill Clinton at a Belgian cocktail party to the very robust Helmut Kohl

Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they? - President George Bush on an Auschwitz tour in 1987

Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk....I think it was those Irish guys. - Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, commenting on the often-confusing streets in St. Paul (He later apologized)

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun. - Senator Barry Goldwater talking about women in the armed forces

Do you own Sombreros? Do you know the Mexican hat dance? - Representative Sidney Yates (D, Ill) speaking to Hispanic high school students.

Queen Elizabeth Taylor. - Thai prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa , referring to the Queen of England

The first black president will be a politician who is black. - L. Douglas Wilder, governor of Virginia

Traditionally, most of Austrailia's imports come from overseas. - former Austrailian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

(From The Stupidest Things Ever Said By Politicians, by Ross and Kathryn Petras)

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