"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again." - Barbara Boxer, Senator
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago" - Dan Quayle
"It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - Dan Quayle
"We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." - Dan Quayle
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - Dan Quayle
"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." - Nguyen Co Thatch, --Vietnamese foreign minister
"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized." - Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House, to a group of people in wheelchairs on Disability Day
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." - Charles De Gaulle, former French President
"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch." - Bill Clinton
"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." - Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." - Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"If you're living in an area with a bad school, move to a place where there's a better school." - Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Education, explaining his ideas on what parents of children who attend poorly funded urban or rural schools should do to solve the problem.
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." - Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
Entertainment people
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." - Alicia Silverstone
"Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" - Christina Aguilera
"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." - Miss Alabama, in the 1994 Miss Universe contest, when asked if she would want to live forever.
"Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii." - Tony Bennett
"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." - Marilyn Monroe when asked about a calendar shoot.
"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa." - Britney Spears
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter, Boxer
"We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought" - Bobby Robson, after the 1990 World Cup Final match against Cameroon
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
"Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths." - Frank Broyles, College football coach
"Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds." - Frank Bruno, Boxer
"For most people, death comes at the end of their lives." - GLR broadcaster, UK
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." - Greg Norman, Golfer
"In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper." - John Motson, BBC
"Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding." - Mickey Rivers, baseball player
"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite" - Murray Walker, Sportscaster
"That's just the tip of the ice cube." - Neil Hamilton, BBC2
"Guys aren't able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game." - Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.
"I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid." - Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer
"I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians." - Tom Lasorda, former Dodger manager on World Cup soccer tournament
"Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future." - Yogi Berra, Baseball player
George W. Bush
"They misunderestimated me."
"It is white." (when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London)
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." (said during 'Perseverance Month'.)
"I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can."
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them."
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
"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."
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right."
(gotta love the guy.)
