“Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’ll be very bored.”
Gary Hart, during the 1988 campaign, a few days before the newspapers published a photo of Donna Rice sitting on his lap aboard the Monkey Business.
“I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.” - James Watt, on what an all-round inclusive sort of guy he was. He never recovered.
Why would Nixon have regretted saying this?
I guess he wouldn’t have, but it certainly proved ironic - he returned, and he took an unprecedented kicking.
Considering he said it right after losing to Kennedy in 1960, it must have been bitterly ironic to him later in life.
Ah, true, true. I wonder what he did do on that day. I imagine it takes a lot for royalty to say nothing interesting happened. Maybe he could have slapped around a jester for awhile or something.
Well because didn’t he say it back in the 50s? And then had a huge political come back… And then a huge scandal… and got kicked around again.
Two crooked British politicians.
Jonathan Aitkin :-
*If it has fallen to my destiny to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it. I am ready for the fight.
*
Jeffrey Archer :- (to a TV reporter when he didn’t realise the microphone was still on)
You wait till I’m Mayor. You’ll find out how tough I am.
Both ended up in prison for perjury. This was after they had sued newspapers which had run stories about their dishonest activities.
No, he said it after losing the gubernatorial race to Pat Brown in 1962.
That just shows that he was wrong when he said it in 1962. It doesn’t show my why he would have wished he had not said it.
Similarily, Louis XVI would have written in his diary on July 14 1789 (Bastille day) : “Today : nothing”
Actually, both quotes are so similar (and allegedly written down in similar circumstances during roughly the same period) that I can’t help doubting they’re authentic, or at least that both are.
OK… Sorry for posting without reading the whole thread (well…not so sorry that I won’t do it again, in all likehood)
That *was *a good one. It was even better when **Guinastasia **cited it up there in post #9.
You could probably fill an entire book with malaprops from the Bush Administration, especially given the proliferation of recording devices and electronic archives these days.
My choice? “[M]y fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
– just because it perfectly encapsulates the deceptive, manipulative, and ultimately erroneous leadership for George’s Big Iraq Misadventure.
No. He said it right after losing to Pat Brown for California governor in 1962.
The echos in this thread are amazing!
“I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.” -J. Danforth Quayle.
This of course prompted a rather memorable retort from one Senator Lloyd Benson.
amazing
“Niggardly.”
Yes, but I added the context. Actually, I didn’t read carefully enough.
One of my favourite Australian political advertisements was a clip of then Prime Minister Paul Keating telling a group of protesting university students to “Go and get a job!” followed by a clip of him in an interview saying “I didn’t say go and get a job.” The two clips were then repeated back to back a few times. Beautiful.