Humorous Blunder Quotes

Famous people in prominent places occasionally say some pretty ridiculous things. But we only pay attention and remember what they said since they are individuals frequently in front of the media. In conversations with friends over the years I've made some pretty drastic verbal blunders (many of which I can't list here) that were so ridiculous they caused people to literally roll around on the floor laughing for ten minutes straight. But even if there would have been a news camera in front of me, no one would have remembered what I said since I'm a complete nobody.

But below are a few quotes from politicians and celebrities in which they make some pretty strange and funny statements. I hope you enjoy them.

"Our offense is like the Pythagorean Theorem: There is no answer!" --Shaquille O'Neal

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me." --A congressman speaking about whether it's good for the nation to be multilingual

"Facts are stupid things." --Ronald Reagan

"And what is more, I agree with everything I have just said." --Piet Koornhoff, South African ambassador to the United States

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -- Brooke Shields

"I don't think we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." --John Wayne

"Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?" -- Arthur Balfour, British statesman, spoken at a congressional debate

"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here." --George Wallace

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --George W. Bush

"Everyone who is for abortion was at one time a fetus." --Peter Grace

"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right." -- Marlon Starling, WBA welterweight

"We are well aware of the male homosexual problem in this country, which is of course minor, but to our certain knowledge there is not one lesbian in England." -Lord Chamberlain

"When we talk to God, we are praying; when God talks to us, we are schizophrenic." -Unknown author

"Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Marion Barry, Washington, D.C. Mayor

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor as you like to be liked yourself." -- George W. Bush

"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." -- Gerald Ford

"I would take my own head by the hair, cut it off, and presenting it to the despot, would say to him, 'Tyrant, behold the act of a free man.'" -- A French revolutionary soldier speaking in 1789

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" -- George W. Bush