Politicians’ Gaffes
- China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. President Charles de Gaulle
- 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 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

















Oh…those political folks really have a way with words…don’t they? Enjoyed these.
And these people have speech writers?
And we elect these idiots?
how these people got where they were is anyone’s guess…
You notice these were all “official” US political statements? You see what we have to put up with over here? It’s truly amazing.
We elect these people and pay they to say such ridiculous things.
Lol. Particularly like killing definition – and the thumbscrews. Nice.
love the sign. let’s deport all of them and start over new
Grrrrrrrrr. Politicians.
Heaven HELP us!
We offer a lot of sound reasoning from across our entire political spectrum, don’t we? No? Perhaps we’re just good at offering political humor!