Duh...

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.

-- Bill Parcels, New England Patriots head coach, on 2nd year quarter-back Drew Bledsoe

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.

-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the U.S.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the Holocaust

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?

-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.

-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic

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

-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries

We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.

-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius