Stupid quotations - Part 2

STUPID QUOTATIONS – PART 2

1.       J. Ramsay MacDonald, British Member of Parliament, modestly denying any role in the honor he was about to receive:

They pushed their nomination down my throat behind my back.

2.       Samuel Goldwyn, movie mogul:

I had a great idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.  

3.       Gregory Ratoff, producer:to John Huston, after John Huston refused to make a film histry of his life:

John, if you weren’t the son of my beloved friend, Walter Huston, and if you weren’t a brilliant writer, a fine actor, and a magnificent director – you’d be nothing but a common drunk!  

4.       New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker:

We’re launching this innovation for the first time.

5.       Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate in a 1978 interview:

I was not lying, I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

6.       Samuel Goldwyn:

I’ve gone where the hand4 ofman has never set foot.

7.       Judge Amado Guerrero, Mexican 10th District Federal Court:

In no way is it possible for a person to be in two places at the same time, especially if there is a great distance in between.

8.       Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago:

Get the thing straight once and for all: the policeman isn’t there to creat disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

9.       Philip Streifer, superintendent of schools, Barrington, Rhode Island:

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school department is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of DavidSteele to the post.

10.   Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago:

We must restore to Chicago all the good things it never had.