What is the most stupid thing the Government has ever said. One item per post please. I will start

"Duck and Cover"

In the cold war children in schools were told that if they see an atomic flash the should duck down and cover threir head with some clothing or such like. They even had film clips to show you how to do it.

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"consumer led recovery"

This statement was made by a Tory prime minister in the last UK recession of 1990 when no one had any money to go out and spend !
Just shows how out of touch our glorious leaders are....

"Winning the Hearts and Minds of the People" as a concept of warfare.

How anything about hearts and minds can be positively referred to in the same breath as civil or insurgent war has always rubbed me the wrong way.

"We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it"
-Pelosi

"In god we trust."

one of the dumbest things anyone has ever said.

"We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."

President Bill Clinton, as quoted in USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman." -- Schwarzenegger

reply to post by HabiruThorstein


Fits in perfectly with your avatar. Sort of a wtf moment.

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"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.”

—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

"Only one thing would be worse than the status quo. And that would be for the status quo to become the norm." -- Elizabeth Dole

Hey, check my signature. you beat me to it.

"Desert Storm was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression and lawlessness." -- Vice President Dan Quayle

"Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change --I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 5, 2008

teehee this is a fun thread, kudos to you sir for starting it!


''They misunderestimated me.''
—George W. Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

oh man we so did misunderestimate him

Fool me once, Shame on...... Shame on you, a fool can't get fool again.

- George Bush

Originally posted by pheonix358
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Fits in perfectly with your avatar. Sort of a wtf moment.

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Hehehe, thanks. To be honest I doubt I needed more than 5 seonds to hit reply and start typing 8>D

So far the United States of America is in the lead followed by the single entry from Great Britain.

The rest of the world may have to combine to even make this a race.

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Only one? Come on... so many just from Bush.

"I'm the commander......see, I don't need to explain..... I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." - George W. Bush as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War

One more. Well two, but they compliment each other.

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - George Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - George Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

Truly a sad, dimwitted individual

"President Obama will re due the oath behind closed doors"

When the government says something like that "duck and cover" lol

oops did not mean to break the rules of the game, aww it was already posted does not count really.

The Rat.