Stupid stuff politicians have said

[merithyn]

Given that this kind of stuff is seeming to be a common occurance anymore, I thought that I'd start a thread as a place to put them all. It'll be fun to see it all together.

And to start us off...

"We're not going to be disrespected," Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) told The Washington Examiner. "We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."

[merithyn]

"How do you look at them and... deny them access?" said Neugebauer. He, with most House Republicans, had voted early Sunday morning to pass a funding measure that would delay the Affordable Care Act, a vote that set up a showdown with the Senate and President Barack Obama. With the parties unable to agree on how to fund the federal government, non-essential government functions shut down Tuesday.

"It's difficult," responded the Park Service employee.

"Well, it should be difficult," replied the congressman.

"It is difficult," responded the Park Service employee. "I'm sorry, sir."

"The Park Service should be ashamed of themselves," the congressman said.

[Syt]

Given that this kind of stuff is seeming to be a common occurance anymore,

When I did the 140 question version of the American dialect test, this use of anymore kept coming up and I was wondering, "who talks like that?"

(Sorry in advance fr potential hijack/derail )

[merithyn]

Given that this kind of stuff is seeming to be a common occurance anymore,

When I did the 140 question version of the American dialect test, this use of anymore kept coming up and I was wondering, "who talks like that?"

(Sorry in advance fr potential hijack/derail )

Shush, you.

[mongers]

I far shorter and tidier thread would be, "Astute policies enacted by politicians during the last quarter century".   

[Kleves]

Some reporter asked Harry Reid if he would at least agree to fund cancer treatment for kids during the shutdown. His response was: "Why would we want to do that?"

[garbon]

What a Marti-like thread.

[merithyn]

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is a Republican facing a stiff challenge from Democrats in next year's election. He recently sat down on the set of CBS 21 News in Harrisburg for a segment on marriage equality, a hot-button issue in the Keystone State and one currently winding its way through the court system.

The anchor, Sherry Christian, opened by asking Corbett about a controversial statement his lawyers made in a summer court filing comparing the marriage of a gay couple to the marriage of a pair of 12-year-old children. The Republican had previously rejected the analogy, so this was something of a softball, an easy way for Corbett to reset the conversation and attempt to make his case with slightly less incendiary language.

"It was an inappropriate analogy," Corbett responded. So far, so good. But, as you've no doubt guessed by now, he didn't stop there. "I think a much better analogy," he continued, "would have been brother and sister, don't you?" A clearly flustered Christian's response: "I'm gonna leave the comments to you and your team."

[Razgovory]

Some reporter asked Harry Reid if he would at least agree to fund cancer treatment for kids during the shutdown. His response was: "Why would we want to do that?"

Hmmm.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/02/why-would-want-to-do-that/

But Reid was challenged at a Democratic press conference by CNN's Dana Bash about why the Senate wouldn't consider the NIH bill.

"If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?" she asked.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly asked, "Why pit one against the other?"

And Reid immediately chimed in: "Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own."

Seems you left a part out.

[Sheilbh]

The wonderful Dame Tessa Jowell: ''I think Ed [Miliband] should just go on travelling around the country, exposing himself to many people.'

[Sheilbh]

Not to forget Godfrey Bloom MEP, the man so politically incorrect UKIP disowned him:
'I just don't think [women] clean behind the fridge enough.'
On the prostitutes he's admitted using, 'Terrified young women beaten into prostitution often from Eastern Europe... is only a very small aspect of the flesh trade ... In short, most girls do it because they want to.'
To women in a room who said that they didn't clean behind the fridge, 'you're all sluts! It's a room of sluts!' He later clarified he meant slatternly.
He currently sits on the European Parliament's Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee.

Also when asked by a journalist why there were only white people on the front page of the UKIP conference guide he exclaimed 'You racist! What a racist thing to say!' before hitting journalist, lightly, with the conference guide.

[Ideologue]

He sounds great.

[Eddie Teach]

"Peace in our time"
"Thousand points of light"
"History written with fire"
"Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
"Strategery"
"I took the initiative in creating the internet"

[11B4V]

This thread is not complete without the master of stupid things poloticians say..  enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dGFepfTj9U

[Admiral Yi]

"There is no controlling authority."