=: Bizarre Statements :=

[KB]

1. "Let's get things straight. The police aren't here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder."

- Mayor Richard J Daley during 1968 Chicago riots

2. Ketchup is to "be counted as one of the two vegetables required as part of the school lunch program."

- US Department of Agriculture, 1981

3. "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."

- Senator Orrin Hatch, 1988

4. "We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation of what newspapers can report."

- South Africa Ministry of Information, 1988

5. Instead of lying to Congress, he said he was offering "a different version from the facts."

- Lt. Col Oliver North, 1987

6. "When I sell liquor it's called bootlegging. When my customers serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."

- Al Capone during Prohibition

7. "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win it, you're still a rat."

- Lily Tomlin

[Victoria]

My favourites are from the last military dictator-President of Brazil, General Jo

[llsteve80]

I suppose you people think this is funny.......well it is

BTW, that mayor daley one is my fave, never gets old.

Not exactly politically centered, but still funny, here are some real life court room quotes:

Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?

No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.

Doctor, how many autopsies have you peformed on dead people?

All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.

What happened then?

He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because you can identify me."

Did he kill you?

No.

When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?

MR. BROOKS: Objection. That question should be taken out and shot.

**** My aunt read some of these to me from an article called "disorder in the court" at thanksgiving 1992. It has continued to grow on the web and can be found with the google