SoundBites

Okay, so Im going to type off the quote I have on my desk calender everyday…should be fun. They’re mostly from political figures, so remember this is just fun not politics. :smile:

Apr 1, 2005

“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, vice president

That guy is the the most quotable politician…him and Bush.

Apr 4, 2005

“I would have made a good pope.”

Richard Nixon

I swear this was my desktop calender quote for the day… :shock:

Apr 5, 2005

“Pray for me. Don’t brag. And don’t talk to Connie Chung.”

Barbara Bush, on what George W Bush asks of her

LOL

Apr 6, 2005

I think that the free enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace.

Richard Kelly, representative from Florida

Hahaha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ohhh… man… that’s a good one :!:

I lived in Florida for a few years. I think it’s the heat that does that to a brain 8)

--Jon

“Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.”

Charles de Gaulle, French president

“I’m the president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!”

George H.W. Bush

Apr 14, 2005

“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politican. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”

President Harry S. Truman

“These little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violations or whatever, are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.”

-Jimmy Carter, on why he meets with dictators

surely you can think of better ways to get your post count up !!

Ahh wait..hehehehe

“Presidents say the darndest things”

Apr 18, 2005

“Gerhard Schroder is no as bad as most Germans. For a start, he is not one of the uniform, stereotypical blonds with hypernationalistic pride who loudly invade our beaches.”

-Stefano Stefani, Italian deputy tourism minister, on Germany’s chancellor

:shock:

good one - actually he regularly goes on vacation in italy afaik :wink:

Mon, Apr 25 2005

“A species goes out of existence every twenty seconds. Surely a new species must come into existence every twenty seconds.”

-Helen Chenoweth, representative from Idaho,
on the Endangered Species Act

aaahhh…my home state… real smart people runnin that place :smile:

hahaha…that’s funny :smile: …yeah when I go back home (Italy) I do see tons of germans and sweds tourists, especially in the touristy areas.
The funny thing is, Italy’s economy would be a lot worse w/out them, since many places depend on those tourists…it’s irony he would say that :shock: …I don’t think he’s a deputy tourism minister anymore…
funny stuff…

paul.

What the “progressives” don’t apparently understand is what she meant, at that rate “A species goes out of existence every twenty seconds” All species would be destroyed in less than a year…

hehe are you positive thats what she meant? Im no tree hugger, and I didn’t read it that way.

Apr 27, 2005

“Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.”

-George W. Bush, refusing to answer reporters’ questions

2 May 2005

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

-Karl Marx, political philosopher