1. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? 
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not 
live forever, because if we were 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 USA contest 

2. "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all 
over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be 
skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and 
stuff." 
---Mariah Carey 

3. "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some 
of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The 
researchers also discovered other similarities between the 
two, but can't remember what they are." 
---Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22 

4. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply 
with the law." 

---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering 
accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 

5. "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 antismoking campaign. 

6. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my 
body." 
---Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward 

7. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest 
crime rates in the country." 
---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC 

8. "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." 
---Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas 
Mavericks 

9. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our 
papers. We are the president." 
---Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of 
subpoenaed documents. 

10. "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." 
---Former French President Charles De Gaulle 

11. "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death 
by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it." 
---A Congressional Candidate in Texas 

12. "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's 
the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." 
---Former U S. Vice-president Dan Quayle 

13. "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in 
the public mind." 
---General William Westmoreland 

And last but not least-a parting word from Dan Quayle: 

14. "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." 

*** Kinda makes you feel pretty smart doesn't it!