“I can’t think of any new existing law that’s in force that wasn’t before
President George Bush, discussing import laws"
“A great Irishman has passed away. God grant that as many great, and who wisely love their country, may follow him.
Times of London, as reported in Handybook of Literary Curiosities, 1925”
“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”
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager, commenting about a Phillies’ ten-game losing streak”
“Don’t confuse me with the facts. I’ve got a closed mind.
Earl Landgrebe, Republican Congressman from Indiana and Nixon supporter, when told about incriminating conversations on the Watergate tapes”
“The similarities between me and my father are different.
Dale Berra, Yogi Berra’s son”
“The first would be our family. Your family, my family—which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be.
Dan Quayle, then vice-presidential candidate, during the 1988 campaign in a speech to Virginia schoolchildren”
“Freedom of speech of the individual citizen must be based on the four basic principles of insisting on the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the party, and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong thought. The citizen has only the freedom to support these principles and not the freedom to oppose them….
People’s Republic of China prosecutor, during the Wei Jingsheng case in 1979, in which defendant Wei, a human rights champion, cited the Chinese constitution guaranteeing free speech in his defense. He lost.”
“We have to pursue this subject of fun very seriously if we want to stay competitive in the twenty-first century.
Singapore Minister of State for Finance and World Affairs George Yeo”
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