Only intelligent people graduate from Ivy League schools? Really? Is that your final answer?
Sheila Jackson-Lee, Yale University, University of Virginia Law School
"Did the Mars Rover take any images of the flag Neil Armstrong planted on Mars?"
- Sheila "Weapons Grade Stupid" Jackson-Lee, which caused her colleague, Vernon Ehlers, to sigh and state, "We don't teach enough science in this country."
"Hurricane names are too 'lily-white'. All racial groups should be represented and federal weather officials should try to be inclusive of African-American names."
- Sheila "But, You'd Better Not Give Any Cat 4s or 5s African Names Because That Would Be Racist" Jackson-Lee
"All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party."
- Sheila "I See Racists Everywhere Except When They Are Robert Byrd Democrats" Jackson-Lee
"I am so glad that we won the Vietnam War. Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace.”
- Sheila "Dora the Explorer" Jackson-Lee
“I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen."
- Sheila "Queen of Racism" Jackson-Lee
"What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can’t prostitute me."
- Sheila "I Ain't No 'Ho" Jackson-Lee, according to her staff
"Don't you let them tell you that Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids are too tight in her hair and that has something to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]."
Oh, oh, Sheila... Oh Sheila
Oh, oh, Sheila... Oh, Sheila
Sheila, she the shat, but she not ready for the world, No!
She the type of chick make bruthas run around in circles so I made out fast.
And now she axin' where her braid girl go, but she's with me in the Cut'LASS.
And that Sheila ain't got no tight braids, but she got her a tinfoil hat and a man named Urkel.
Oh, Sheila, baby, un-der-stand that I want to be the only man you think you got one over on me well
'Cuz me and my boys laugh our bloody bums off at the hours and hours and hours of the tapes of you that can only be said to make Jessica Simpson, Snooki, Jar Jar Binks, etc., look like Rhodes Scholars.
Honey, baby!
Oh... Honey, baby, 1-2-3 (yeah, yeah),
I don't give a damn and Neil Armstrong ain't never planted a bloody American flag on Mars in 1969, you dumb bitch.
I want to tweet Di a lee da lee Tweet a di a lee da lee so baby please run in the electrical storm with your tinfoil hat ooonnnnnn.......
My apologies to J.Holiday & Ready For The World.
“Don’t
condemn the gangbangers, they’ve got guns that are trafficked — that are not
enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have
strong gun laws. Why? Because we don’t
have sensible gun legislation.”
- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, 9 April
2013
Jerry Brown, University of California, Berkeley, Yale Law School
"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
- Governor Jerry Brown
Gray Davis, Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (J.D.)
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth."
- Governor Gray Davis
Charles Schumer, Harvard College (B.A.), Harvard Law School
"Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them."
- Charles Schumer
John Forbes Heinz, er, Kerry, Yale University (B.A.), Boston College Law School (J.D.)
"I'm going to be honest with you -- I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?"
- John Forbes Heinz, er, Kerry
"I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
- John Forbes Heinz, er, Kerry
"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."
- John Forbes Heinz, er, Kerry
“Americans have a right to be stupid."
- Secretary of State John Kerry (and to make up new countries)
“They fight corruption in Nigeria. They support the rule of law in
Burma. They support democratic institutions in Kyrzakhstan
and Georgia.”
- Secretary of State John Kerry, 26 February 2013
"While having cocktails, I can see Islamabaddog, Burkini Fasoul, and Kyrzakhstan from the aft-deck of my yacht, which I had custom-built in New Zoolander and dock in Roadislandiki pour éviter l'impôt dans l'état du Massachoosetz. Taxes are for little people. Don't you agree? I mean, n'est-ce-pas? Can I pardon you to pass the Grey Poupon?"
- Jean Kyrry
George W Bush, Yale University (B.A.), Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)
"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
- George W Bush
"Is our children learning?"
- George W Bush
Howard Dean, Yale University (B.A.), Albert Einstein College of & Medicine (M.D.)
“We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.”
– Howard Dean
Deval Patrick, Harvard College (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.)
"It's a free country. I wish it weren't."
- Governor Deval Patrick
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, University of Florida (B.A., M.A.)
"We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"At
a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a
rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the George W Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent.
And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"I didn’t say he said that. And unfortunately, that comment
was reported by a conservative newspaper. It’s not surprising that they
would deliberately misquote me. What I always say is that unfortunately
the Republicans have made Israel a political football, which is
dangerous for Israel. And Ambassador Oren has said that we can’t ever
suggest that there is any daylight between the two parties on Israel,
because there isn’t. And that that’s harmful to Israel. That’s what I
said, and that is accurate. We have to make sure that in America we
don’t have people who put their love of party in front of their love of
Israel. As the first Jewish woman to represent Florida in Congress, I
take my love of Israel to work with me every single day, and I want to
make sure that we re-elect President Obama."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politifact called this statement "Pants on Fire!"
“Is it a violation of the House rule wherein members are not permitted to make disparaging references to the President of the United States? In two previous gentlemen’s statements on the amendment, both of them referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as ‘ObamaCare.’ That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. … It is clearly in violation of House rules against that.”
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as the head of the DNC, she bought the rights to "Obamacare" placement on search engines to ensure that people searching the term were first driven to government and pro Obamacare sources. Also, her claim was BS.
“I represent one of the largest gay populations in the United States of America. One of the largest Jewish populations in the United States of
America. Our region has a very large African-American population. It
really is belittling of the respect that we should have for these groups
to suggest that members of the armed services have somehow
systematically been the victims of hate crimes.”
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“I don’t see any swastikas or any pictures of the President in black
face or burned in effigy here (at OWS). The difference between the way we
express our First Amendment rights and the way I’ve seen Tea Party
extremists—Republican Tea Party extremists—express their right is
dramatically different.”
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, What is she smoking?
"Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal
opportunity for all Americans. That’s why WE'VE WORKED TO PASS EVERY ONE OF OUR
NATION'S CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS, and every law that protects workers. Most recently,
Democrats stood together to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act....ON EVERY CIVIL
RIGHTS ISSUE, DEMOCRATS HAVE LED THE FIGHT. We support vigorous enforcement of
existing laws, and remain committed to protecting fundamental civil rights in
America."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as DNC Chairwoman and demonstrably untrue
“This past election was tough. We must do a better job of clearly articulating our accomplishments to the American people.”
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wellesley College, Yale University School of Law
"I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian."
- Hillary Clinton
"God bless the America we are trying to create."
- Hillary Clinton
"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
- Hillary Clinton
"You fucking Jew bastard!"
- Hillary Clinton
"What difference, at this point, does it make?"
- Secretary of State Clinton
David Wu, Stanford University, Yale University School of Law
“Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war."
- Rep. David Wu (D-OR)
Barack Obama, Occidental College, Columbia University
(B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D)
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed."
- Barack Obama
“The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
- Barack Obama
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
- Barack "I See Dead People" Obama
"Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer."
- Barack Obama
“I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?”
- Barack Obama
"You didn't build that! Somebody else made that happen!"
- Barack Obama, 13 July 2013
Harry Reid, Southern Utah University (A.A.), Utah
State University (B.S.), George Washington University (J.D.)
“This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.”
- Harry Reid
"As a black candidate, [Obama} could be successful thanks, in part, to his "light-skinned" appearance and speaking patterns with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
- Harry Reid
“We won't smell the tourists anymore…My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway...In the summer, because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive, but it's true."
- Harry Reid
"The word's out that he hasn't paid ANY taxes for 10
years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn't."
- Senator Harry Reid
Al Gore, Harvard University (B.A. - His grades during
his first two years put him in the lower one-fifth of the class), Vanderbilt University Divinity School (Quit), Vanderbilt University School of Law (Quit)
his first two years put him in the lower one-fifth of the class), Vanderbilt University Divinity School (Quit), Vanderbilt University School of Law (Quit)
"I am not an expert on computers."
- Al Gore, the creator of the internet
"In 50 years there will be no North Pole in the summertime."
"People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …"
- Al Gore
"A zebra does not change its spots."
- Al Gore
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
– Al Gore
“Who are these people?”
- Al Gore, during January 17, 1993 pre-Inaugural tour of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, shown live by C-SPAN, Al Gore asks of busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Marquis de Lafayette -- with the Clintons.
Bill Clinton, Georgetown University (B.S.), Yale Law School (J.D.)
"This is still the greatest country in the world if we just steel our wills and
lose our minds."
- Bill Clinton
“It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
- Bill Clinton
“African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.” (Imagine that!)
- Bill Clinton
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."
- Bill Clinton
“Half of all mass killings in the United States have occurred since the
assault weapon ban expired in 2005, half in the history of the country.”
- Bill Clinton, 9 January 2013
Richard Danzig, Reed College (B.S.), Yale Law School (J.D.),
Oxford University (PhD)
"Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."
— Obama foreign policy adviser, Richard Danzig
Dick Durbin, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University (B.S.), Georgetown University Law
“It's not a federal mandate, ... It's an opportunity for your community, on a grass roots basis, to come together.”
– D1ck Durbin
James Webb, United States Naval Academy (B.S.), Georgetown
University Law Center (J.D.)
“You want to take the most direct route. It makes sense to come through the Altamont with three tracks and divide the tracks in one direction to serve three different cities.”
- Jim Webb
He also "communes" with the Southern Civil War dead.
Alan Grayson, Harvard College (A.B.), Harvard Kennedy
School (M.P.P.), Harvard Law School (J.D.)
''Why would you want to put people in charge of government who just don't want to do it? I mean, you wouldn't expect to see al Qaeda members as pilots.''
—Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)
Richard Blumenthal, Harvard College, Trinity College,
Cambridge, Yale Law School
"On a few occasions, I have misspoken about my service and I regret that. I take full responsibility. But I will not allow anyone to take a few
misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country.”
– Richard Blumenthal
Not quite The Ivies, but just as stupid…
Janet Napolitano, Santa Clara University, University of Virginia School of Law
“The system worked (in the attempted Christmas bombing).”
– Janet Napolitano, the "system" was a Dutch filmmaker
"Crossing the border is not a crime per se."
- Janet Napolitano
Nancy Pelosi, Trinity Washington University (B.A.)
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
– Nancy Pelosi
“Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”
- Nancy Pelosi
"First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded with
new record low unemployment rates, which only means wealthy
employers are getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid working class."
- Nancy Pelosi
Christopher Dodd, Providence College (B.A.), University of Louisville (J.D.)
“Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again.”
- Chris Dodd, on the campaign trail
"I just briefly will say, Mr. Chairman, obviously, like most of us here, this [Fannie and Freddie] is one of the great success stories of all time."
- Chris Dodd, Feb. 24, 2004
Henry Waxman, UCLA (B.S., J.D.)
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap.”
- Henry Waxman
Barbara "Ma'am" Boxer, Brooklyn College (B.A.)
“Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.”
- Barbara "Ma'am" Boxer
Marion Barry, Fisk University
"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where’s Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.”
- Marion Barry
“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.”
- Marion Barry
Carolyn Maloney, Greensboro College
"It's the NRA, it's immigration, it's all these other things. In fact, I got a call from someone from Puerto Rico, said [Gillibrand] went to Puerto Rico and came out for English-only [education]. That'ss like saying n--r to a Puerto Rican. All of her--well, what does she stand for?"
- Carolyn Maloney
Eric Massa, United States Naval Academy
“Now, they’re saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.”
- Eric Massa
Maxine Waters, California State University - Los Angeles
“Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing…uh, um…Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”
- Maxine Waters
"I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."
- Maxine Waters
"If you call it a riot (Rodney King riot) it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions and I’m not so sure that’s quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles. It was unfortunate that it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable...It was only a rebellion… a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration...There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn’t have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks.”
- Maxine Waters
"We don’t need to be having
something like sequestration that’s going to cause these jobs losses,
over 170 million jobs that could be lost."
- Maxine Waters, 28 February 2013 (for the record, the civilian labour force in January was 155,654,000)
Helen Thomas, Wayne University
"Do you think there are terrorists in Iran?"
– Helen Thomas
“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine."
– Helen Thomas
Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland State University,
Case Western Reserve University Law School
"The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.”
– Dennis Kucinich
Joe Biden, University of Delaware (B.A.),
Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.)
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, "look, here's what happened."
- Joe Biden
“His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she’s- wait- your mom’s still- your mom’s still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.”
- Joe Biden
"I'm here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we're going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month."
– Joe Biden, April 23, 2010
"Now the fun stuff starts."
– Joe Biden referring to the “benefits” from the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – August 25, 2010
"We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt."
– Joe Biden
“The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.”
- Joe Biden
"I am second in line to be president."
- Joe Biden
“My friend Gaby Giffords was shot and mortally wounded.”
- Joe Biden
- Joe Biden
Rod Blagojevich, Northwestern University (B.A.), Pepperdine University (J.D.)
"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-
room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
- Rod Blagojevich
“The truth is, we do things honestly, ethically and legally and we're doing it completely different from what some of our predecessors did.”
- Rod Blagojevich
Corrine Brown, Florida A&M University (B.S.), University of Florida (M.A., Ed.S)
"I could smell the gas."
- Corrine Brown, comments made while helicoptering over the BP **OIL** spill
Charlie Rangel, New York University (B.S.), St. John's University (LL.B.)
“I’m in the kitchen and I’m not walking out.”
- Charlie Rangel, (WTF?)
Tom Harkin, Iowa State University (B.A.), The Catholic University of America (J.D.)
“That will have little kids associate learning, associate getting better and progressing with eating Oreo cookies.”
– Tom Harkin
Diane Watson, UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles, Claremont Graduate University
"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."
- Diane Watson
"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient government
program.”
- Diane Watson
Alcee Hastings, Fisk University, Howard University
(B.S.), Florida A&M University (J.D.)
"There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something . . . All this talk about rules . . . When the deal goes down . . . we make 'em
up as we go along."
- Alcee Hastings
John Conyers, Wayne State University (B.A.), Wayne State University (J.D.)
“This does, sometimes to some people, begin to take on the appearance of
a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president (Clinton) of the United States.”
a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president (Clinton) of the United States.”
- John Conyers
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill … What good is
reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?’”
- John Conyers
“Under several clauses, the good and welfare clause, the good and plenty clause, and a couple others.
All the scholars, the constitutional scholars that I know — I’m
chairman of the Judiciary committee, as you know — they all say that
there’s nothing unconstitutional in this bill and if there were, I would
have tried to correct it if I thought there were.”
- John Conyers, 23 March 2010
Congressman James Clyburn, South Carolina State College (B.A.)
"There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the federal government has
anything to do with most of the stuff we do. How about [you] show me
where in the Constitution it prohibits the federal government from doing
this?”
- James Clyburn, 15 September 2009
"Alvin Greene might have won because of magnets."
- James Clyburn, 15 June 2012
“You know, Sarah Palin just can’t seem to get it, on any front. I think
she’s an attractive person, she is articulate. But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able
to understand what’s going on here.”
- James Clyburn, 12 January 2011 arguing that she was responsible for the Gabby Giffords shooting
Cynthia McKinney, University of Southern California
"Her son's charge by the Department of Defence was to process 5,000 bodies that had received a single bullet wound to the head, and these were mostly males...The data about these individuals was entered into a Pentagon computer. And, then reportedly the bodies were dumped in the swamp in Louisiana...I have verification from insiders, who wish to remain anonymous (of course)...at the Red Cross (Because clearly, the Red Cross would be deeply involved in such a plot - Sophie)."
- Cynthia "Face-Palm" McKinney
"Why did they not warn the innocent people…who were needlessly murdered? [In other words, the Bush administration knew these people were going to be murdered and they did nothing about it. She also adds that] persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America’s new war...We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th...What did this administration
know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered? . . . What do they have to hide?...I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.”
- Cynthia McKinney (Don't say it. I am not debating your Truther theories again...thermite...nano-thermite...nono-kryptonite).
Hank Johnson, Clark Atlanta University, Texas Southern
University (J.D.)
"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“Thomas Jefferson was a terrorist, he went after the free people of Libya.”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“[George] Washington, the racist might as well have had a KKK robe on under his powdered wig.”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“Martin Luther King was on the verge of revealing Halliburton was
stealing oil from Africa in April 1968, that’s why they took him out.”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“White folks shouldn’t just pay reparations, the only REAL reparations will come when they go back to Europe and let the Africans have this country, and the Indians can go back to India too (and take their teepees).”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“I want to know who in the defense department used that Tsunami machine off the coast of Japan.”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
“George Bush should be tried in the Hague for all the crimes against Africa during his regime.”
- Congressman Hank Johnson
Louis Farrakan, English High School of Boston
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes."
- Louis Farrakhan
“I saw a city in the sky. After which the UFO brought me back to Earth and dropped me off near Washington…to make The Announcement."
- Louis Farrakhan
Keith Ellison, Wayne State University (B.A.), University of Minnesota (J.D.)
"Let me tell you in World War II, in World War II they (the Nazis) attacked Pearl Harbor. That would be enough."
- Congressman Keith Ellison (D- MN)
Gwendolynne Moore, Marquette University (B.A.)
"The National Institute of Health has said that it is a danger to
women's health and safety of their families, that for 30 years, to be
exposed to the prospects of pregnancy."
- Congresswoman Gwendolynne Moore (D-WI)
Pete Stark (D-CA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS - Engineering), Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, (MBA)
“The federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country.”
- (fmr) Congressman Pete Stark(raving mad), 2 August 2010
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