Silly Quotes - Page 25

• Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

  Sarah Palin

  Law, Conservative, Republican

  "Sarah Palin on National Day of Prayer Controversy". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2010.

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• What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

  John McCain

  Might, Conservative, Unexpected

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• We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

  John McCain

  Stupid, Struggle, Iraq

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Vegas, Gambling, Class

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Want, Conservative

  "Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'". "The Big Idea" with Donny Deutsch, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2007.

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• Do you have blacks, too?

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Conservative, Republican

  "You've been a great audience ..." by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Order, Liberal Media

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.67, Crown Forum

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• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  Neil Innes

  Song, Titles, Looks

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• It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

  Russell Hoban

  Animal, Earth, Pet Loss

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

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• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Past, Thinking

  "Text: Rumsfeld's News Briefing". www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2003.

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• I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Airports, Thursday

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• I think I was unprepared for war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Stupid, Thinking

  Interview with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Fun, Squares, Long

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• We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

  Bobby Robson

  Funny, Soccer, Stupid

  "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

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• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Appreciate, Political

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

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• It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

  George W. Bush

  East London, White, House

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• I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Thinking, Enemy

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• The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

  Jonathan Alter

  Art, Analyzing, Politician

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Lying, Hard Work

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• But as importantly, it lies in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my neighbor. I want to make somebody's life just a little bit better.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Party, Political

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• Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

  Yuri Razuvaev

  Play, Example, Chess

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• Put the 'off' button on.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Dumb, Buttons

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• It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.

  Jan Gustafsson

  Moving, Sacrifice, Games

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• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Agriculture, People

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• The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

  Robert Frost

  Dog, Pups, Remember

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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