Really dumb things said

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facts are stupid things

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, unaware a radio microphone was on.

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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced to gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

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The Republican candidate Paul Ryan says:


"With a few exceptions, government's approach has been to spend lots of money on centralized, bureaucratic, top-down anti-poverty programs.

"The mindset behind this approach is that a nation should measure compassion by the size of the federal government and how much it spends.

"The problem is, starting in the 1960s, this top-down approach created and perpetuated a debilitating culture of dependency, wrecking families and communities."

So, in Ryan's opinion, the "war on poverty" that President Lyndon Johnson declared in 1964 as part of a broader Great Society initiative made matters worse.

But that's just wrong.

How do we know? Census data.

In 1959, 22.1 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line.

In 1969, 13.7 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line.

The poverty level has varied since 1969. It has gone as high as 15 percent. But it has never again gotten anywhere near where it was in 1959.

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I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Ronald Reagan

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I have mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ronald Reagan

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I don't intend for this to take political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Nancy Reagan, speaking at an anti-drug rally.

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“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
– Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

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Your food stamps will be stopped effective march 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God Bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

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If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

Mark S. Fowler, FCC chairman

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Marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor

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having committed political suicide, the Conservative party is now living to regret it.

Chris Pattin, British politician

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Sure [pesticides] are going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

Othal brand, member of Texas pesticide review board.

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We have every mixture you can think of. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews, and a cripple.

James Watts, Secretary of the Interior on the diversity of his staff.

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Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency.

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In the early sixties, we were wrong, we were virulent...

John Connally, Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon.

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The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.

Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia

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I can't believe that we are going to let a majority of the people decide what is best for this state.

John Travis, representative from Louisiana

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The Knights of Peter Claver is a large Catholic organization.

Wilfred Pierre, representative from Louisiana

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Biden: 'There's Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I've Been Proud To Be His Vice President'..........