25 Least-Thought Provoking Political Quotes

In researching the great quotes, it’s easy to get sidetracked with quotes of absurdity. While it may appear that the Republicans have a corner on that market, thorough research did come up with a couple of non-Republican gems.

Since the majority of political quotes are obviously made by politicians, to give a fair and balanced feel to this list, it seems appropriate to include political spokespeople, beauty pageant contestants (one doesn’t necessarily need brains for this profession), wives of politicians, the all-invasive mass-media personality blowhards, and of course the self-righteous christian hypocrites. Some may question the inclusion of a blowhard quote directed at an entertainment personality, but if one considers the payment support of the insipid mouthpiece, it is indeed politically connected.

Enjoy the following life inspiring quotes. Other than inspiring, there's no reason for fear. Unless you're a male horse.

1 - “You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” - George W. Bush

2 - "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." - Dick Cheney

3 - "If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'" - Bill O’Reilly

4 - "I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work." - Donald Rumsfeld

5 - "I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse." - Laura Bush

6 - "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?" - Glenn Beck

7 - "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future." - Lauren Caitlin

8 - "We're not building missiles to fight a war. We're building missiles to preserve the peace." - Ronald Reagan

9 - "If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." - Newt Gingrich

10 - "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting." - Rush Limbaugh

11 - "All of a sudden, we see riots, we see protests, we see people clashing. The next thing we know, there is injured or there is dead people. We don't want to get to that extent." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

12 - "I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it." - John Kerry

13 - "We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld

14 - "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care -- and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'" - Ann Coulter

15 - "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." - Pat Robertson

16 - "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" - Sarah Palin

17 - "I have a wide stance." - Larry Craig

18 - "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." - Tom DeLay

19 - "You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord." - Jerry Falwell

20 - "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - Dan Quayle

21 - "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are." - Ari Fleischer

22 - "(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson

23 - “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.” - Orrin Hatch

24 - "We're gonna have a government rationing body that tells women with breast cancer, 'You're dead.' It's a death sentence." - Sean Hannity

25 - “I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.” - George H. W. Bush