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

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

"It's like deja vu all over again."
– Yogi Berra

"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

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
– Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Och nu: Dan Quayle!

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
– at a fundraising event for the United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."
– on the San Francisco earthquake

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. "
– on Republican family values

"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."

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy — but that could change."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is `to be prepared'."

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"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 to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." (Så sant! red.anm.)