"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"
Mayor Marion Berry, Washington, DC
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I
can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all
those flies and death and stuff."
Mariah Carey, Pop singer
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
President."
Hilary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed
documents
"The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve
disorder."
Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968
Democratic Party convention
"China is a big country, in habited by many CHINESE."
Former French President Charles de Gaulle
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering
accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
"The Internet is a great way to get on the Net"
Republican Presidential candidate, Bob Dole
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same
reactions in the brain as marijuana... The researchers also discovered other
similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
"It's like an alcatraz around my neck."
Boston mayor Menino on the shortage of city parking spaces
"Half his game is ninety percent mental."
Phildelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark
"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 $1000 for an ordinary pair of
pliers
"It is wonderful to be here in the great State of Chicago."
Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
"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 U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them
unsafe."
Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life."
Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson
for a federal anti-smoking campaign
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide george Stephanopolous speaking on
Larry King Live
"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the
school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele
to the post."
Philip Streifer, Superitendent of Schools, Barrington, RI
"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
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
General William Westmoreland, during the war in Vietnam.