Intelligent Quotes

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 USA contest.

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

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
your life," -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
spokesperson for 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, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
in the country," -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"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.

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

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this 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." -- Al Gore, Vice
President

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle

" It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or
another" -- George Bush, US President

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
-- Lee Iacocca

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different
from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version," -- Colonel
Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony.

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy
like Norman Einstein," -- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback &
sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people."-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- Bill Clinton, President

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Al Gore, VP

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --
Keppel Enderbery

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may
reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." -- Department of
Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

"If we let the loggers go in and cut down all the trees we wouldn't
have a problem with forest fires." – George Bush