Verbatim FAMOUS QUOTES
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Groucho Marx
I would be reluctant to render a judgement
against a great athlete Like Bonds…
It would color my judgement.
Potential Juror
If you want to be technical…I guess we broke our word.
Terry Jones
We could find that the Arab Spring turns into an Iranian Winter.
Benjamin Netanyahu

GOP leaders need to learn how to fight like a girl.
Sarah Palin
The truth is, we’re long overdue to be knocked down by the press.
Biz Stone
I never imagined being presented with a Bill that would require
candidates for President…
to submit their “early baptismal or circumcision certificates”…
This is a bridge too far.
Jan Brewer

I miss being anonymous…
I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed,not shaving,
getting into my car with my girls…
taking walks. I can’t take a walk.
Presient Barack Obama
You’re diddling your secretary while you’re giving
a speech on moral values?
Come on. Get off it.
Alan Simpson
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“Defeat is one thing; Disgrace is another!”
Sir Winston Churchill
I’m heterodox because life is heterodox.
Fareed Zakaria
How do we know Mark Zukerberg can’t connect with others?
It must take some people skills to run a multibillion company.
Hillary Vandenberg
The greatest persecution of the church doesn’t come from enemies
on the outside of the church but is born from the sin within the church.
Pope Benedict XVI

I think I’ll serve as Secretary of State as my last public position.
Hillary Clinton
I never considered myself a maverick.
John McCain
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it!
Sir Winston Churchill
How are you gong to be alive if uou eat someh=thing dead?
Dr. Jewel Pookrum to NBA Champion John Salley
You are a glutton for punishment aren’t you!
ERLY
I am offended you (TIME, Jan 24 issue) chose
the deranged Tuscon shooter for the cover image.
It would have been more appropriate to show the victims.
Kathy Benson
Nefertiti has been and remains
the best Egyptian ambassodor to Berlin.
Hermann Parzinger
We should not consider the two incidents the same…
Fukushima is not a Chernobyl.
Hiroshi Horiike

All power is delightful, and
absolute power is absolutely delightful.
Kenneth Tynan
Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss
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ERLY
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways
when he’s crossing a one-way street.
Laurence J. Peter
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Forgive your enemies, but never their names.
John F. Kennedy
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
Charles M. Schulz
I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
I have been happy with my homes,
but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
Nancy Reagan

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never do anything against conscience,
even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Never in the field of human conflict was
so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube,
it’s hard to get it back in.
H. R. Haldeman

The buck stops here.
Harry S. Truman
The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
Henry Kissinger
The art of being a good guest is to know when to leave.
Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The human mind is like an umbrella; it functions best when open.
Walter Gropius
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

We shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
well done is better than well said!
Ben Franklin
When a man tells me he’s going to put all his cards on the table,
I always look up his sleve.
Lord Hore-Belisha
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
You have to have some order in a disordered world.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.
Winston Churchill
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban

Harry Reid will have to pry the Cat House Keys from my cold, dead hands.
Dennis Hof, owner of Moonlight Bunny Ranch, a Nevada Brothel
I feel younger now, than when I was in my 30s and 40s,
and had all those problems.
Ida Keeling, 95 year-old world record runner (60 m in 28.6 sec )
He didn’t have focus correct all the time…
but that doesn’t matter.
Gary Mack, curator of Dallas Sixth-Floor Museum
The official private race to the moon is on.
Peter Diamonds, CEO of X-Prize Foundation
They Love me…They will die to Protect me, my People!
Muammar Gadhafi
There have been abuses…
but they were never a part of the policy of my father’s Administration…
Although, there were individual abuses,
I cannot see how his administration per se, can be liable for that!
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

I have a feeling my career’s just peaked!
Colin Firth Oscar award actor for The King’s Speech
As President, I refused to wait for images of
slaughter and mass graves
before taking action!
President Barack Obama, regarding US troops for Libya to stop potential civilian massacre
My court is not a jester court…I understand that people are starstruck…
I’m not one of them!
Becky Dean-Walker, a Texas Judge
She even wanted to be LATE for her own FUNERAL!
Sally Morrison, Elizabeth Taylor’s Publicist about Liz’s wish to start her funeral 15 mins late
This QUAKE, TSUNAMI, and the NUCLEAR accident are the biggest crisis for Japan…
We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert!
Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan
GREECE is BUST…essentailly!
Gabriel Stein, economist
It’s been a while!
Leon Panetta, CIA Director

It’s happened to me for years now…
someone tells a Radio Station or a Newspaper
I’ve been killed or suffered an accident!
Sergio Vega, “El Shaka”, popular Mexican singer
I apologized to England and Mexico!
Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA
We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that he…
can retire at a four-star level!
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary about General Stanley Mc Chrystal
She may have threatened her sister…
but I don’t think that constitutes Homeland Security triggers!
Santhosh Thomas, re: his 6 yr-old daughter is on the US govt “no-fly” list
Let us wage jihad against Switzerland!
Muammar Gadhafi, ruler of Libya
Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees…
neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm!
Al gore, former Vice President
What we are seeing here for the people of Gaza is an existence, not a life!
John Holmes, UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs
Those responsible should take the brave decision and sign a letter of resignation!
Dimitri Medvedev, Russian President
We cannot depend on GOD’s will for our crops!
Ahmed Abu Hamed Moheddin
The reality is we will be reading Miranda Rights to
the corpse of Osama Bin Laden!
Eric Holder, US Attorney General

Character and personal force
are the only investments that are worth anything.
Walt Whitman
After a long and necessary time away from the game…
I feel I’m ready to start my season at Augusta.
Tiger Woods, number one Golfer
You can say I will retire within the next three years…
I’m sure of that!
John Paul Stevens, 89 year-old Supreme Court Justice
I finally had to tell him, “Read my lips. We’re not interested!”
Gregory Smith, a US military spokesman
The home was wrecked already…I was not the home wrecker!
Rielle Hunter
It was a recruiting and meeting point for Islamic radicals!
Frank Reschreiter, spokesman for Hamburg’s State Interior Ministry
Radical prohibition strategies have never worked!
Vincente Fox, former Mexican President
It feels like they’re just sticking a finger in the air and guessing!
John Mutton, leader of the Coventry City Council

We are at war with al-Quaeda!
Francois Fillon, Prime Minister of France
I can’t sing forever!
Wyclef Jean, Hatian-born musician
It’s an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion…
changing the general perception of beer one stuffed animal at a time!
James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog; Scottish brewer of touted world’s strongest beer
Even if we have to eat stones, we would stop sending OIL to the United States!
Hugo Chavez
It is just wrong to say that Turkey can guard the camp,
but not be allowed to sit in the Tent!
David Cameron, British Prime Minister
We say to Hell…Hell! Hell with them!
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
Tragically…we have locked ourselves into a cycle of violence,
where protest leads to death, leading to further protests and further casualties!
Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of the Indian state of Jammu
We want to create an egalitarian society through Political means!
Alfonso Cano, leader of the FARC

The international community, whci Pakistan belongs to,
is in the process of losing the war against the Taliban!
Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan President
I have no intention of dying until my autistic child is taken care of!
Mother of autistic child
This is our first Goldilocks planet…just the right size and
the right distance from the sun!
Carnegie Institution of Washington Astronomer
It is the right of any country to promote its oen interests!
Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistani President
The nations that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow!
Jill Biden, US Second Lady
We have abundant experience in holding elections!
Thein Soe, Burma’s Election Commission Chairman
We’e sort of preparing for all eventualities!
Dave Lapan, Pentagon Spokesman
Everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love!
Barbara Bush, former President George W. Bush’s daughter
It’s a legal product…I choose to smoke…Leave me alone!
John Boehner, Speaker of the House
We’re going to take over a Radio Channel and
try and take over Power at Key Centers!
Chris Knight, former British professor and avowed anarchist

The heroes who rushed to Ground Zero in the hours and days
after the attacks will not be forgotten!
Charles Schumer, New York Senator
He’s had a six-year stretch now where basically
he’s been going 24/7 with relatively modest pay!
President Barack Obama, President of the United States of America about Robert Gibbs
The People of Kentucky didn’t elect me to debate Religion…
They elected me to create jobs!
Steven Beshear, Governor of Kentucky
It would be difficult to conceive of a proposition
more inconsistent with the Constitution!
Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU Lawyer

We’re not leaving if you don’t want us to!
Joe Biden, US Vice President
Drilling off-shore is a privilege to be earned…
not a right to be exercised by private corporations!
Bob Graham, co-chair of the White House Oil-Spill Commission

