Presidents and other politician have a batch to say and not much time to say it ; in their hastiness , the subject matter often gets suffer on its way from the brain to the rima oris and comes out in risible , embarrassing , and memorable quotes . Here are 9 favourite political slips of the tongue .
1: Ronald Reagan
As president , Ronald Reagansometimes veered from his carefully written speech with black outcome . In 1988 , when trying to cite John Adams , who said , " fact are stubborn thing , " Reagan splay and said , " fact are stupid matter . "
Not know as an conservationist , Reagan say in 1966 , " A Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is a tree diagram . How many more do you have to look at ? "
His most celebrated blooper come up during a microphone test before a 1984 tuner address when he remarked , " My fellow Americans , I am pleased to distinguish you I just sign legislating which outlaws Russia forever . The bombardment begins in five moment . "
2: Al Gore
Al Gore serve as frailty president under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001 . During the 1992 safari , he ask elector skeptical of change to think of that every communist politics in Eastern Europe had fallen within 100 days , follow by , " Now it ’s our bout here in the United States of America . "
Gore has often been wrongly quote as saying that he invent the Internet , but his genuine comment in 1999 was , " During my religious service in the United States Congress , I took the initiative in create the Internet . "
3: Richard Nixon
Richard M. Nixon was the 37th United States President of the United States , serving from 1969 to 1974 . He is the only U.S. president to have resigned from billet .
Famous for telling newsperson , " I am not a crook , " Nixon once gave this advice to a political associate degree : " You do n’t know how to lie . If you ca n’t lie , you ’ll never go anywhere . " Nixon could n’t handle up Watergate and he could n’t cover up bloopers like that either .
4: Richard J. Daley
Mayor Richard J. Daley served as the undisputed leader of Chicago during the tumultuous sixties . The Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago in August 1968 , but with the nation divided by the Vietnam War and the character assassination of Martin Luther King , Jr. , and Robert F. Kennedy fueling animosity , the city became a field of honor for antiwar protests , which Americans witness on interior boob tube .
When confrontation between protesters and police force turned vehement , Daley ’s boner comment mull the opinion of many people : " The law are not here to make upset , they ’re here to preserve disorderliness . "
5: Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
A straight slow - talkin ' Texan , many of Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis ’s famous fuckup may have influenced his fellow worker , next president George W. Bush .
While close a congressional academic term , Lewis ’s tangible feelings about his peers drop off out when he say , " I need to thank each and every one of you for having eliminate yourselves this session . "
He tried to excuse his problems once by tell , " There ’s a lot of uncertainness that ’s not clean in my mind . "
He could have been describing his jumbled reign as Texas speaker when he commented , " This is unparalyzed in the State Department ’s history . "
6: Dan Quayle
Before President George W. Bush take over the deed , Dan Quayle was the predominate Martin Luther King Jr. of malaprop . Serving one condition as vice president from 1989 to 1993 , Quayle ’s strip of the spit made him an easy but well - merit target for late - dark lecture appearance .
His most famous boo-boo come in 1992 when , at an elementary schooltime spelling bee in New Jersey , he corrected scholar William Figueroa ’s right spelling of potato as p - o - t - a - thyroxine - o - e.
Quayle did n’t really aid the crusade for reelection when , at a stop in California , he said , " This president is go to lead us out of this recovery . "
7: Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew dish out as frailty president from 1969 to 1973 under President Nixon , before relinquish following evidence of taxation equivocation . This slip of paper expressed his true feelings on this subject : " I apologize for lie to you . I promise I wo n’t deceive you except in matters of this sort . "
Agnew also did n’t endear himself to poor hoi polloi in 1968 when he commented , " To some extent , if you ’ve project one city slum area , you ’ve meet them all . "
8:George W. Bush
Reflecting about growing up in Midland , Texas , President George W. Bush said in a 1994 interview , " It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then . " Back in those daytime , Dubya was known to be a gravid drinker , so mispronounce the word invigorating was a real Freudian cutting .
During his clip in the White House , the junior Bush has had enough malaprops to give a centipede a serious shell of understructure - in - the - mouth syndrome .
9: George H. W. Bush
With Dan Quayle as his frailty president , the bloopers of President George H. W. Bush sometimes got overshadow , but he still deal some zinger .
While campaigning in 1988 , Bush described serving as Ronald Reagan ’s vice President of the United States this way : " For seven and a half years I ’ve make alongside President Reagan . We ’ve had triumph . Made some mistakes . We ’ve had some sex . . . uh . . . reversal . " When it comes to United States President 41 and 43 , you could say that the slickness does n’t fall far from the tongue .
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
