The following quotes were recorded by various media over the years.
"[He was] a living legend when he was still alive."
--Color commentator's reference to a former coach during ESPN's September 18, 1999 TV broadcast of the Indiana vs. Kentucky football game
"This Super Bowl [2003] will be in San Francisco whether we have a new stadium or not, because I can play the Super Bowl with only slight modifications of the stadium in Oakland."
--Willy Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, April 1998
"How can I [take the sockeye salmon's endangered species status seriously] when you go in and you can buy a can of salmon off the shelf in Albertsons?"
--Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho, while a 1994 candidate for Congress
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind -- or not to have a mind. How true that is."
--Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President, addressing a United Negro College Fund Affair and garbling their slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."
--Gerald Ford, U.S. President
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
--Richard Nixon, U.S. President, in a 1978 interview about Watergate
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."
--Lester Maddox, ex-governor of Georgia
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
--Charles de Gaulle, French President
"Making love is a mental illness that wastes time and energy."
--People's Republic of China, official Communist Party proclamation, 1971
"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized."
--Adolph Hitler
"You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that."
--Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1938
"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."
--Alf Landon, during a speech (in America) while campaigning for president against Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat."
--Senator Augustus Owsley Stanley, Democrat from Kentucky, in the 1920s
"The new Irish flag would be Orange and Green, and would in future be known as the Irish tricolor."
--Smith O'Brien, Irish revolutionary
"Half the lies our opposition tell about us are not true."
--Sir Boyle Roche, an Irish soldier and subsequent member of the British Parliament in the late 18th century
"Only the little people pay taxes."
--Leona Helmsley, wealthy socialite
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
--Brooke Shields, actress, saying why she should become a spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
--John Wayne, famous actor who played many cowboy roles in movies
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
--Samuel Goldwyn, movie mogul
"My dear Mr. Wallis, just read 'Sea Wolf.' You told me in your office that it would be a 50-50 part (the role of Leach). I am sorry to say it is just the opposite."
--George Raft, actor, in a wire to Hal Wallis, producer
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
--General William Westmoreland, U.S. commander in the Viet Nam War, on why the media should be muzzled in wartime
"They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist--"
--General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the U.S. Civil War, speaking his last words before being shot from his horse while watching enemy troops during the battle of Spotsylvania Court House
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
--Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies baseball team manager, commenting on a 10-game losing streak
"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
--Dizzy Dean, baseball player, explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
--Yogi Berra, baseball player, explaining why he didn't want to go to dinner at a particular restaurant
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
--Yogi Berra