Amusing Political Bloopers

Some of my favourite political bloopers:

** "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." - Charles de Gaulle, ex-French President

** "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"

** "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.

** My fellow astronauts..." - Vice-President Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration.

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

** "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 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.

** "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.

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