Bloopers actually.
"The chairs in the cabin are for the ladies. Gentlemen are not to make use of them till the ladies are seated."
--Instructions posted in a river cruise ship, Suir River, Ireland.--
"This is a great day for France!"
--President Richard Nixon while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral.--
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."
--President Gerald Ford--
"My fellow astronauts..."
--Vice-President Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration.--
"We found the term 'killing' too broad."
--State Department spokesperson on why the word 'killing' was replaced with 'unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life' in its human rights reports for 1984-5--
"The exports include thumbscrews and cattle prods, just routine items for the police."
--U.S. Commerce Department spokesman on a regulation allowing the export of various products abroad.--
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
--Charles de Gaulle, ex-French President--
"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
--Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah, explaining his support of the death penalty.--
"Outside of the killings, Washington D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington D.C.--
YOUR POWERS HAVE NO EFFECT ON ME. I HAVE THE CLOWNS ON MY SIDE.
