Media Gaffs

What not to say to the press

Media Gaffs

• Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Media Gaffs

• 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

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.– Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

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• I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.– Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky

basketball forward

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• 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, pop singer

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• 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

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• The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve disorder.– Former Chicago mayor Daley during the

infamous 1968 Democratic Party Convention

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• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.– Former U.S. President Dwight D.

Eisenhower

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• Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas.– Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel

Enderbery

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• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.– Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas

Mavericks

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• Half this game is ninety percent mental.– Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

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• They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off. – Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining

why the company charged the Air Force nearly $1,000 for an ordinary pair of pliers

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• It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

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• 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

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• The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.– Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of

Philadelphia

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• 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

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• Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.– General William Westmoreland, during the

war in Vietnam

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• I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.– Andre Dawson, Chicago Cubs outfielder