From Our Finest Minds

A proof is a proof. What kind of proof? It's a proof. A proof is proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it is proven.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Quoted Page A-15, The Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 21, 2002
 reference to the possibility of Saddam Hussein's production of weapons of mass destruction
Source: Peter Warren's
Stupidest Canadian Comment Contest
(Jean Chrétien's comment ranked first)

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

—Fran Lebowitz

The best thing about being a lesbian in the early 1970s is you never, ever thought you would have to get married.

— Elizabeth Birch
[Homosexual] Rights Campaign president

Smoking kills.  And if you are killed you have lost a very important part of your life.

— Brooke Shields

The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

— Clinton aide George Stephanopolous
speaking on  Larry King Live

The police are not here to create disorder.  They're here to preserve disorder.

— Former Chicago mayor Daley
during the infamous 1968 convention

If you've seen one redwood tree, you have seen them all.

— Forestry expert Ronald Reagan

Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas.

— Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

It is wonderful to be here in the great State of Chicago.

— Former US vice-president Dan Quayle

The streets are safe in Philadelphia.  It's only the people that make them unsafe.

— Frank Rizzo Former Philadelphia Mayor
and Police Chief 

The Internet is a great way to get on the Net.

— Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

— Andrew Mathis

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck.

— Boston mayor Menino on the shortage of city parking spaces

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

— Former US vice-president Dan Quayle

They're multipurpose.  Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off.

— Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why
the company charged the Air Force nearly $1,000
for an ordinary pair of pliers

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

— Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.  We are the president.

— Hillary Clinton commenting on the release
of subpoenaed documents

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

— Former US President Calvin Coolidge

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

— Former French President Charles de Gaulle

That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it.

— A congressional candidate in Texas

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

— Former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower

A billion here, a billion there — sooner or later it adds up to real money.

— Everett Dirksen

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.  There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

— John Wayne

Half this game is ninety percent mental.

— Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.  It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

— Former US vice-president Dan Quayle

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

— General William Westmoreland,
during the war in Viet Nam

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

— Former US vice-president Dan Quayle
at a fundraising event for the United Negro College Fund. 
He was attempting to quote the line:
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

— Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin

I love California.  I practically grew up in Phoenix.

— Former US vice-president Dan Quayle

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