Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
I mean, he pretty much DID preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” - Bill Clinton
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” - Mitt Romney
Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” - Bill Clinton
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” - Mitt Romney
“Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination” to serve as President - Theodore Roosevelt
Said on Election Night 1904, after he’d won the Presidency in his own right after serving most of William McKinley’s second term. T.R. could easily have run and won again in 1908, but didn’t; after four years out of the White House, he ran again in 1912 and lost.
Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” - Bill Clinton
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” - Mitt Romney
“Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination” to serve as President - Theodore Roosevel
Eisenhower’s warning against the military industrial complex.
Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” - Bill Clinton
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” - Mitt Romney
“Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination” to serve as President - Theodore Roosevel
Eisenhower’s warning against the military industrial complex.
“If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold.” (and multiple variations thereof) - Barack Obama
Statements made by world leaders they later came to rue
read my lips no new taxes - George H.W. Bush
I am not a crook - Richard M. Nixon
“He kept us out of war!” - Woodrow Wilson 1916 campaign slogan
“It is our will that this state (the Third Reich) shall endure for a thousand years” - Adolf Hitler
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” - FDR
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles…Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”- Winston Churchill
“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” - Bill Clinton
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” - Mitt Romney
“Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination” to serve as President - Theodore Roosevel
Eisenhower’s warning against the military industrial complex.
“If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold.” (and multiple variations thereof) - Barack Obama
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” - Gerald Ford
Next subject.
Singers (both solo and band members) you like not only because of their music but also because you have a bit of crush on: