Media Gaffs

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Media Gaffs

• What not to say to the press

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Media Gaffs

• Question If you could live forever, would you
  and why?

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Media Gaffs

• 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

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Media Gaffs

• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of
  the lowest crime rates in the country.
  
• Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

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Media Gaffs

• I've never had major knee surgery on any other
  part of my body.
  
• Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky
  basketball forward
  

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Media Gaffs

• 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, pop singer

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Media Gaffs

• 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

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Media Gaffs

• The police are not here to create disorder.
  They're here to preserve disorder.
  
• Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous
  1968 Democratic Party Convention

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Media Gaffs

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

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Media Gaffs

• Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come
  from overseas.
  
• Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel
  Enderbery
  

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Media Gaffs

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

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Media Gaffs

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

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Media Gaffs

• They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the
  clips on, but they take them off.
  
• Pratt Whitney spokesperson explaining why the
  company charged the Air Force nearly 1,000 for
  an ordinary pair of pliers
  

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Media Gaffs

• It is wonderful to be here in the great state of
  Chicago.
  
• 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.

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Media Gaffs

• It isn't pollution that's harming the
  environment. It's the impurities in our air and
  water that are doing it.
  
• Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle

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Media Gaffs

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only
  the people who make them unsafe.
  
• Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of
  Philadelphia
  

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Media Gaffs

• After finding no qualified candidates for the
  position of principal, the school board is
  extremely pleased to announce the appointment of
  David Steele to the post.
• Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools,
  Barrington, Rhode Island
  

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Media Gaffs

• Without censorship, things can get terribly
  confused in the public mind.
  
• General William Westmoreland, during the war in
  Vietnam
  

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Media Gaffs

• I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up
  to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.
  
• Andre Dawson, Chicago Cubs outfielder