- I. QUOTES:
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- "I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job"
- George Bush, during his first Presidential
campaign
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- "This is a great day for France!"
- Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De
Gaulle's funeral
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- "Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some
drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?
... I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want
any of that.'"
- George Bush, talking about drug abuse to a
group of students
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- "For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President
Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ...
uh... setbacks."
- George Bush
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- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom
and democracy. But that could change."
- Dan Quayle
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- "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific.
It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island
that is right here."
- Dan Quayle during a visit to Hawaii in 1989
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- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind.
How true that is."
- Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College
Fund
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- "I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor
of Baltimore-that is Maryland."
- William Donald Schaefer, first inaugural address
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- "The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies.
There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at."
- George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline
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- "I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism.
This is what drives me."
- George Bush
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- "If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced
that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without
food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the
unemployed."
- Ronald Reagan
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- "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw
Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
- Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for
a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on
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- "Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the
same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures
where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that
means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
- Dan Quayle
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- "Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think
we're going to succeed."
- Ronald Reagan
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- II. AND GREAT MOMENTS IN POLITICAL DEBATES:
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- Walter Mondale: George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize.
- Bush: Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any
time.
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- III. FOREIGN GOOFS:
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- "Bite the wax tadpole."
- Coca-Cola as originally translated into Chinese
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- "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."
- ad slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" as
originally translated into Chinese
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- "I am a jelly doughnut"
- English translation of John F. Kennedy speaking
at the Berlin Wall
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- "We pray for MacArthur's erection."
- sign erected by Japanese citizens in Tokyo,
when MacArthur was considering a run for President
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- "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
- from a guest directory at a Japanese hotel,
1991
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- "It takes a virile man to make a chicken pregnant."
- Perdue chicken ad, as mistranslated abroad
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- IV. MISCELLANEOUS:
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- "I'm not against the blacks and a lot of the good blacks will
attest to that."
- Evan Mecham, then governor of Arizona
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- "Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern
has been exposing himself to the people of the United States."
- Frank Licht, then governor of Rhode Island,
campaigning for McGovern in 1972
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- "Retraction: The 'Greek Special' is a huge 18 inch pizza and
not a huge 18 inch penis, as described in an add. Blondie's Pizza would
like to apologize for any confusion Friday's ad may have caused."
- correction printed in The Daily Californian
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- "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall
and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is
a terrible thing for the Padres!"
- Jerry Coleman, Padres radio announcer
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- "I want you to take your balls in your hand and bounce them
on the floor and then throw them as high as you can. Now, have you all
got your balls in your hands?"
- announcer of children's radio show "Life
With Mother" to her audience
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- They X-Rayed my head and found nothing.
- Jerome "Dizzy" Dean
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