Words are like bullets -- they're hard to retrieve once they've been fired off. And you can bet these people would take back what they said, if only we'd let them!
"I would like to live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." -- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -- Brook Shields
"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is 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 underpopulated." -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." -- David Dinkins, mayor of New York City
"I've never had major knee surgery on any part of my body." -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
"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
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