Say what ?

[Senor Capper]

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop 'em.
?Yogi Berra, attributed


Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
?Yogi Berra


You can observe a lot by watching.
?Yogi Berra


You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
?Yogi Berra, attributed


I have opinions of my own?strong opinions?but I don't always agree with them.
?George Bush


Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.
?George W. Bush, 2000
Third Presidential debate with Al Gore.


I don't know whether I'm going to win [the election for President] or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.
?George W. Bush, 2000


If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
?George W. Bush, 2000


If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
?George W. Bush, 2000


I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
?George W. Bush, 2000


I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
?George W. Bush, 2000
Second presidential debate


I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
?George W. Bush, 2001
Associated Press interview


I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job [of President] is underestimating.
?George W. Bush, 2000
quoted in U.S. News & World Report


It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
?George W. Bush, 2000


It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
?George W. Bush, 2000


I understand small business growth. I was one.
?George W. Bush, 2000
quoted in New York Daily News


Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
?George W. Bush, 2000


One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
?George W. Bush, 2000


Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
?George W. Bush, 2001
New York Times interview


The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
?George W. Bush, 2001
New York Times interview


The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
?George W. Bush, 2000


The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
?George W. Bush, 2000
quoted in San Antonio Express-News


There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
?George W. Bush, 2001
Meeting with Catholic leaders


The woman who knew that I had dyslexia?I never interviewed her.
?George W. Bush, 2000


They have miscalculated me as a leader.
?George W. Bush, 2000


They misunderestimated me.
?George W. Bush, 2000


They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.
?George W. Bush, 2000


They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
?George W. Bush, 2000


This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.
?George W. Bush, 2000


"Perseverance Month" speech in Nashua, NH, quoted in Los Angeles Times
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
?George W. Bush, 2000


We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
?George W. Bush, 2000


Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.
?George W. Bush, 2000


We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House?make no mistake about it.
?George W. Bush, 2001


Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
?George W. Bush, 2000


The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
?Robert R. Coveyou,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory


I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
?J. Curtis McKay,


Wisconsin State Elections Board
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
?Richard M. Nixon


Solutions are not the answer.
?Richard M. Nixon


A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
?Dan Quayle


For NASA, space is still a high priority.
?Dan Quayle, 1990


I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy?but that could change.
?Dan Quayle, 1989


If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
?Dan Quayle, 1990
in the Phoenix Republican Forum


I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix.
?Dan Quayle


I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
?Dan Quayle, 1989
interview with Sam Donaldson


It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
?Dan Quayle


Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
?Dan Quayle, 1998


when asked about the GOP's presidential nominee in 2000
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is "to be prepared."
?Dan Quayle, 1992
quoted in Esquire


People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
?Dan Quayle


Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
?Dan Quayle, 1988
quoted in U.S. News and World Report


The future will be better tomorrow.
?Dan Quayle


The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
?Dan Quayle, 1988
quoted in The New Yorker


The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
?Dan Quayle, 1989
On the San Francisco earthquake


This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
?Dan Quayle, 1992
quoted in Esquire


Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
?Dan Quayle, 1988


We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
?Dan Quayle, 1990


We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.
?Dan Quayle


We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
?Dan Quayle, 1988


What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
?Dan Quayle, 1989


Speech to the United Negro College Fund
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
?Dan Quayle


I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
?Ronald Reagan


An unsupervised teenager with a modem is as dangerous as an unsupervised teenager with a gun.
?Arizona State Attorney Gail Thackeray, 1996


The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
?Kurt Vonnegut as Kilgore Trout

 

[buddy]

I truly enjoy your humor..

Excellent!

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

"This country was built on ethics,integrity,valor,honesty and morale fiber and I will continue in that tradition."
Bill Clinton
In his dreams LOL

 

[SixFive]

At an event in Las Vegas on Monday, 09/1800, Al Gore declared potential breast cancer victims faced "a long waiting line before they could get a biopsy or, uh, or a uh, another kind of, what am I looking for, a sonogram or...." People in the crowd shouted "mammogram."

"When my sister and I were growing up," Mr. Gore told a small audience made up mostly of women, "there was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so."
(Source: NY Times, 08/12/00)

On July 16, 2000 during a "Meet the Press" interview, Gore was asked if he would be in favor of postponing the execution of a pregnant woman. His hesitant response was "I'd have to think about it".

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Al Gore interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.

"Gore smiled and admitted that he, too, has trouble turning on a computer - let alone using one."
(Source: "Gore Touts Job-Training Programs at Pittsburgh Factory" Associated Press September 4, 1998)


"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full." Al Gore George Will column, Sunday May 17 1998) Mary and Joseph were not homeless, they were going to Bethlehem on order of King Herrod for census.


Al Gore, giving a speech for Yellowstone National Park's 125th Anniversary, Albright Visitors Center, Sunday, August 17, 1997: "When we come here, we see the longpole pine and the Douglas fir." Should be lodgepole pine.

Speaking at a D.C. function, Vice President Al Gore, wowed by the Bulls, said: "I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he. He's just unbelievable."
( Source: The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998 )

"Any government official who ... lies to the United States Congress will be fired immediately."
(Source: Seattle Times, June 29, 1987)

"one of our greatest presidents" Al Gore at the White House Post-Impeachment Pep Rally on December 19, 1998.

At the opening of the new Gore 2000 HQ, Gore said something about a "rip-tootin'" campaign.

Al Gore, when asked about his illegal fundraising activities that took place in a Buddhist temple: "I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple."

"Character doesn't matter."
President Bill Clinton

"I've been a citizen most of my life . . . "
Hillary Clinton
Today, 11/28/00

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." President Bill Clinton January 26, 1998


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It's far better to be LUCKY than good.

 

[buddy]

(Future Politicians)

One horsepower: the energy required to drag a dead horse 550 feet in 1 second.

A molecule is so small it cannot be seen by the naked observer.

The future of "I give" is "I take."

The parts of speech are lungs and air.

The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes.

A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

Define H2O and CO2: -- H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.

A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.

The general direction of the Alps is straight up.

A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then forcing it through an aviator.

Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris.

The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 opossums.

The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

We do not raise silk worms in the United States, because we get our silk from rayon. He is a larger worm and gives more silk.

One of the main causes of dust is janitors.

A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all duly constipated authorities.

One by-product of raising cattle is calves.

To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat.

The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

The climate is hottest next to the Creator.

Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply religious feelings.

The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom.

Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.

The blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg and up the other.

In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.

Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.

A person should take a bath once in the summer, not so often in the winter.

 

[skulldog]

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"- Slick Willy

 

[buddy]

Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom
consists in not exceeding the limit.

-Elbert Hubbard, author, editor,
printer (1856-1915)

 

[Juice]

At an event in Las Vegas on Monday, 09/1800, Al Gore declared...

Wow, Al Gore is a lot older than he looks

[This message has been edited by Juice (edited 12-31-2001).]