"Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of life"
     Anti-smoking spokesperson Brooke Shields

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur"
     Former U.S. Vice-Pres. Dan Quayle

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep."
     Clinton aide George Stephanopoplous speaking on Larry King Live

"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
     Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968 convention

"If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all."
     Forestry expert Ronald Reagan

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
     Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

"It is a wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe."
     Former Philadelphia Mayor and Police Chief Frank Rizzo

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
     Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
     Andrew Mathis

"He was a man of great statue."
     Boston mayor Thomas Menino on former mayor John Collins

"It's like an Alcatraz around my neck."
     Boston Mayor Nenino on the shortage of city parking spaces

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle

"They're multipurpose.  Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off."
     Pratt&Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly
     $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
     Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.  We are the President."
     Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
     Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
     Former French President Charles De Gaulle

"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle on the San Francisco earthquake

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just hte one to do it."
     A congressional candidate in Texas

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image.  Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
     Richard M. Nixon

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment.  This is a good planet."
     Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple:  Who is to blame for the riots?  The rioters are blame.  Who is to blame for the killings?  The killers are to blame."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle on the complex social issues behind the Los Angeles  riots

"Things are more like they are not than they ever were before."
     Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A million here, a million there, sooner or later it adds up to real money."
     Everett Dirksen

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
     Samuel Goldwyn

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle on Republican family values

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking the 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

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
     Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.  It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
     General William Westmoreland

"What a waste it is t olose one's mind.  Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.  How true that is."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle at a fund raising event for the United Negro College  Fund.
     He was attempting to quote the line "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet."
     Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin

"I love California.  I practically grew up in Phoenix."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle

"Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry.
     Unknown

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in the nation's history.  I mean in this century's history.  But we all lived in this century.  I didn't live in this century."
     Former U.S. Vice Pres Dan Quayle

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
     Unknown

"What would this great land of ours be without this great land?"
     Former President Ronald Reagan

"The holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history...We all lived in this century.  I didn't live in this century."
     Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican Vice Pres candidateduring a news conference
    in which he was asked his opinion of the holocaust.

"Rotarians, be patriotic!  Learn to shoot yourself."
     Chicago Rotary Club journal, "Gyrator"

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia.  It's only the people who make them unsafe."
     Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

"I've always thought thatunderpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
     Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
    wastes to Third World countries

"After finding no qualified condidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post."
     Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island

"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
     Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but to cry.  I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
     Mariah Carey (pop singer)

"Question:  If you could live forever, would you and why?  Answer:  I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were 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

"Researcher have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuanan...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
     Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22

"I haven't committed a crime.  What I did was fail to comply iwth the law."
     David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

"Smoking kills.  If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of you life."
     Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
    campaign.

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
     Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

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

"Beginning in February 1976 you assistance benefits will be discontinued...  Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976"
     Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid.