Three Favorite Dumb Quotes of All Time

Ok. I know you have a few. We all do. It's so hard to narrow them down though. Here are my winners for the dumbest quote of all time:

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

"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

"All of a sudden you’re like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I’m going through." - R. Kelly

Spill it. The more milk we blow out our noses, the more work I get. Get to it.

reply to post by KSPigpen


Actually, the dumbest quotes I have ever read are right here on ATS.

I will not embarrass the poster's of said quotes any further in this thread. You just have to read a few threads with lot's of stars and you will come across them.

That is if they even know what they said..

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Sheilds

“Wal-Mart… do they like make walls there?”
Paris Hilton

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"
Dan Quyle

[edit on 10/7/2009 by concerned190]

Here are a few for you! Enjoy!

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
- Brooke Shields

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

"I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
- Ted Kenneday, US Senator

My first vote goes to Obama:

"you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma...stammers... they got some treatment, and a breathalyzer, or an inhilator..."

"I invented the internet". 
- Al Gore


"The internet is a great way to get on the net." 
- Bob Dole


"Solutions are not the answer." 
- Richard Nixon

George W Bush: "They misunderestimated me"

Dwight Eisenhower: "The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before."

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 : "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Doug Collins

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

George H. W. Bush

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

-Kyo

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong!" -John McCain

"Cars will not have Intercourse on this Bridge."
-Tokyo, Japan traffic sign


"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
- Bill Clinton


"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
- Dan Quayle