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Poll: Which is the most ignorant quote? Part 2?

1)"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's

The impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"We are ready for an un foreseen event that

May or may not occur."

-- Al Gore, VP

2)"I love California I practically grew up in Phoenix "

-- Dan Quayle

3)"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much

Clean air do we need ?"

--Lee Iacocca

4)"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A

Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback

5)"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude

Certain types of people."

-- Colonel Gerald Wellman

6)"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

--Bill Clinton, President

7)"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come

From overseas."

--Keppel Enderber

8)"Your food stamps will be stopped effective

March 1992 because we received notice that

You passed away. May God bless you. You may

Reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina

9)"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack

In at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their

Heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when

They wake up dead, there'll be a record."

--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I'm gonna have to go with 4, chief, that guy was an IDIOT! lol

    And 6. Six is hilarious too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    8

  • 1 decade ago

    All of these get equal credit for ignorance as far as I'm concerned. But I would like to highlight #4, only because I could never stand Theisman...such an egotistical jock!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    10. "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

    11. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part

    of my body"

    -- Winston Bennett

    12."Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the

    lowest crime rates in the country"

    --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

    13. "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 .

    My vote is for Mariah Carey, lol.

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  • 1 decade ago

    A tough tie between #2, #3, and #5.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    they are ALL ignorant, equally, save for #2.

    The Quayle quote COULD be generously termed as a non sequitur (which 'spell check' won't HELP me, so as to make ME look ignorant).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hard to choose...I'm thinking a tie between #2 and #8

  • 1 decade ago

    We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude

    Certain types of people."

  • 1 decade ago

    They are all equally ignorant- well ignorant means lack of knowledge and is not intrinsically a bad thing, so I would say they are equally stupid!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    5 is the best...I mean worst. 3 and 8 are funny, too.

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