”Stand up, Chuck, let ‘em see ya.”

—Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008

I AM the federal government.”

—Then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003

”You know, education — if you make the most of it — you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

—Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), botching a joke about President Bush getting us stuck in Iraq

”People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”

—Richard Nixon at a November 17, 1973 news conference

 

‘A number of things that I put in (the diary) were inaccurate, and some of them simply weren’t true….On occasion, I discovered I would recount conversations that simply didn’t happen.”

—Sen. Bob Packwood, referring to his infamous diaries in which he boasted of his sexual dalliances with staff members

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