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    Jun 27, 2007, 06:45 AM
    a long list of speech goofs
    1. "I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job"
    --George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign


    2. "This is a great day for France!"
    --Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral


    3. "Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy
    to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? ... I
    bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any
    of that.'"
    --George Bush, talking about drug abuse to a group of students


    4. "For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan.
    We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh...
    setbacks."
    --George Bush


    5. "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
    democracy. But that could change."
    --Dan Quayle


    6. "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in
    the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that
    is right here."
    --Dan Quayle during a visit to Hawaii in 1989


    7. "What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How
    true that is."
    --Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund


    8. "I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of
    Baltimore-that is Maryland."
    --William Donald Schaefer, first inaugural address


    9. "The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There
    are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at."
    --George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline


    10. "I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is
    what drives me."
    --George Bush




    11. "If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced
    that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going
    without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something
    about the unemployed."
    --Ronald Reagan


    12. "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia
    forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
    --Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for a radio
    broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on


    13. "Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same
    distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures
    where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that
    means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
    --Dan Quayle


    14. "Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're
    going to succeed."
    --Ronald Reagan


    15. GREAT MOMENTS IN POLITICAL DEBATES:
    Walter Mondale: George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize.
    Bush: Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time.


    16. "Bite the wax tadpole."
    -- Coca-Cola as originally translated into Chinese


    17. "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."
    -- ad slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" as originally translated into Chinese


    18. "I am a jelly doughnut"
    --English translation of John F. Kennedy
    speaking at the Berlin Wall


    19. "We pray for MacArthur's erection."
    --sign erected by Japanese citizens in Tokyo, when MacArthur was
    considering a run for President


    20. "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
    --from a guest directory at a Japanese hotel, 1991


    21. "It takes a virile man to make a chicken pregnant."
    --Perdue chicken ad, as mistranslated abroad


    22. "I'm not against the blacks and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that."
    --Evan Mecham, then governor of Arizona


    23. "Nixon has been sitting in the White House while George McGovern has
    been exposing himself to the people of the United States."
    --Frank Licht, then governor of Rhode Island, campaigning for
    McGovern in 1972


    24. "Retraction: The 'Greek Special' is a huge 18 inch pizza and not a
    huge 18 inch penis, as described in an add. Blondie's Pizza would like
    to apologize for any confusion Friday's ad may have caused."
    --correction printed in The Daily Californian


    25. "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it
    rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a
    terrible thing for the Padres!"
    --Jerry Coleman, Padres radio announcer


    26. "I want you to take your balls in your hand and bounce them on the
    floor and then throw them as high as you can. Now, have you all got
    your balls in your hands?"
    --announcer of children's radio show "Life With Mother" to
    her audience


    27. They X-Rayed my head and found nothing.
    --Jerome "Dizzy" Dean

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