“…a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.”
-Herbert Hoover during the 1928 presidential campaign. The next year started the great depression of 1929.
Not quite. The German Navy lost most of its front-line strength, which could be considered to have rendered the invasion of the UK later that year out of the question.
amazing
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People didn’t find it very funny at the time, but as I said I don’t think that fazed him.
Actually, Hoover didn’t say that.
The original quote about a chicken is found from Henri IV, French King 1553-1610. He said
Hoover said, in a campaign speech in 1928
. The Republican party adopted after this a political slogan A Chicken in Every Pot. A Car in Every Garage.
Courtesy of Fred Shapiro’s wonderful new The Yale Book of Quotations which I just purchased(and contributed to).
Which one was it who said, “The insurgency is in its last throes”? Either Cheney or Rumsfeld. Unfortunately, neither one has the sense of shame to be regret having said that obvious lie.
“There can be no whitewash, at the White House” - Richard Nixon, April 30th 1973
“We’re all right! We’re all right!” - Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party, 1st April 1992, at a political rally in Sheffield a week before the UK General Election, at which they were widely expected to defeat the incumbent Conservative Party. Kinnock’s behaviour on the podium - acting as though the election was already won - caused a drastic slide in support and in the end the Conservatives held on and won the election.
would have been better for the Tories if they had lost - Labour would have taken the blame for being bundled out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, and they would have been back in again next time.
Not a politician, but Gerald Ratner’s quote about the products sold in his chain of low budget jewellry shops must go down as one of the all time greats
The whole chain collapsed as the public stayed away in droves.
Somehow I doubt if Neil Kinnock regards his defeat as a blessing in disguise, though.
Isn’t he the same fellow who said, vis-a-vis the Pope making pronouncement about unmarried folks’ sexual behavior, “He no play-a the game, he no make-a the rules” ?
Not that she was wrong or anything.
No, that line is credited to Gerald Ford’s Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz (see last paragraph of linked column). Butz also tossed off a notorious remark about “what the coloreds want.” Incidentally, he lives in the Lafayette area, and is still active (at 97) in the local chapter of a fraternal organization (I believe it’s Kiwanis, but can’t vouch for that).
Wow, AFU! They’ve been so eclipsed by Snopes I forgot they were out there!
“By 1990, no Australian child will live in poverty!”
- Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke (and the silly bastard only said it in 1986 or so).
“Life wasn’t meant to be easy” - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in response to complaints from the victims of economic recession- a remark which forever branded him as arrogant, distant and self centered and probably remains more famous than anything he did in 8 odd years of government.
“I’ll tell you what the coloreds want. It’s three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.” :smack:
Earl Butz, Agriculture Secretary for Pres. Gerald Ford
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– Richard M. Nixon
Regrettable mainly for frequency of repetition.
Of course she was wrong. When did teenagers ever need to be taught masturbation? Monkeys can work this shit out! 
Ya know, I didn’t think much of the guy (them Democrats vying for the White House are all politicians) but I never understood why this scream hurt him so badly. Was it because it was funny? Or because it was emotional? Or something else?
Marion Barry, right?