1. “Queen Elizabeth Taylor.” – Thai Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa, referring to the Queen of England.
2. “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country." – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referring to the USA while addressing Columbia University.
3. "I would never approach a small-breasted woman." – President Clinton, denying that he had sexually harassed Kathleen Willey.
4. “Life has become better, life has become more fun!”
[«Жить стало лучше, жить стало веселее!»] Josef Stalin. The irony of
this phrase is that he said it at the peak of mass repressions organized
by him at the end of 1930s.
5. “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.” – Fidel Castro. But he also said: “I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
6. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people, and neither do we." – Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004 – George W. Bush.
7. "This is a great day for France!" – President Richard Nixon at French President Charles de Gaulle's funeral.
8. "I've now been in 57 states – I think one left to go." – Barack Obama at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon.
9. “We are not without accomplishment. We have manauged to distribte poverty equally.” – Nguen Co Thatch, Vietnamese Foreign Minister.
10. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." – Barack Obama attempting
to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously
undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
11. "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten
thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." -- Barack Obama on a Kansas tornado
that killed 12 people
12. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the
television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.
He said, 'look, here's what happened'." Joe Biden in interview with Katie Couric, September 2008.
However, Roosevelt wasn't president in 1929 and televisions
were still experimental. Couric didn't blink.
13. "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." -- Nancy Pelosi about Obamacare during a speech she delivered for the National Association of Counties.March 10, 2010
14. "I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a
Republican and a Christian." - Hillary Clinton in the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, 1997
15."My
first pledge will be to restore integrity to the White House. And I'll
fire anyone who has lied to the American people or the United States
Congress" -- Al Gore, 1988
