these are amazing.
"Yes I am. And you're ugly. But tomorrow I'll be sober."
- Winston Churchill, to a woman who complained that he was drunk
"If it's inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it."
- Clayton Williams at a rained-out campaign event during the 1990 gubernatorial race in Texas. Williams was advising reporters at the event to compare the weather with how one should cope with rape
"I'm gonna be so tough as mayor I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot."
- Philadelphia police commissioner Frank Rizzo during his 1971 successful campaign for mayor
"Damn it, when you get married, you kind of expect you're going to get a little sex."
- Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton, commenting in 1981 on the prosecution of a man charged with raping his wife
"You don't have to go to college to achieve success. We need the people who do the hard physical work of our society."
- George Bush, who labeled himself as "the education president," during a 1988 talk with Hispanic high school students in East Los Angeles
"We like you! But you're sleeping with the enemy."
- A message on a placard held by a protester who greeted Barbara Bush when she campaigned for her husband in the New Jersey primary in 1992
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
- Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman
"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
- President George H. W. Bush
"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
- President George Bush in 1990, on what sort of deficit-reduction proposals he would present to Congress
"I think incest can be handled as a family matter within the family."
- Representative Jay Dickey (R, Arkansas) defending his position against abortion even in the case of rape or incest
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
- Vice President Dan Quayle
"It depends on what the meaning of is is."
- President Bill Clinton
"Why in God's name we're going to punish a man for having sex with his wife when she says, 'No, not tonight,' I don't know."
- Bud Long, South Carolina state senator, opposing a spousal rape law
"Is that racist?"
- D.A. Coon, mayor of Petersburg, Alaska, after telling a joke about "barbequed black boys" in 1991
- Winston Churchill, to a woman who complained that he was drunk
"If it's inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it."
- Clayton Williams at a rained-out campaign event during the 1990 gubernatorial race in Texas. Williams was advising reporters at the event to compare the weather with how one should cope with rape
"I'm gonna be so tough as mayor I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot."
- Philadelphia police commissioner Frank Rizzo during his 1971 successful campaign for mayor
"Damn it, when you get married, you kind of expect you're going to get a little sex."
- Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton, commenting in 1981 on the prosecution of a man charged with raping his wife
"You don't have to go to college to achieve success. We need the people who do the hard physical work of our society."
- George Bush, who labeled himself as "the education president," during a 1988 talk with Hispanic high school students in East Los Angeles
"We like you! But you're sleeping with the enemy."
- A message on a placard held by a protester who greeted Barbara Bush when she campaigned for her husband in the New Jersey primary in 1992
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
- Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman
"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
- President George H. W. Bush
"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
- President George Bush in 1990, on what sort of deficit-reduction proposals he would present to Congress
"I think incest can be handled as a family matter within the family."
- Representative Jay Dickey (R, Arkansas) defending his position against abortion even in the case of rape or incest
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
- Vice President Dan Quayle
"It depends on what the meaning of is is."
- President Bill Clinton
"Why in God's name we're going to punish a man for having sex with his wife when she says, 'No, not tonight,' I don't know."
- Bud Long, South Carolina state senator, opposing a spousal rape law
"Is that racist?"
- D.A. Coon, mayor of Petersburg, Alaska, after telling a joke about "barbequed black boys" in 1991