What is the most stupid thing the Government has ever said. One item per post please. I will start

After 9-11 when the Bush admin told us all to go out and shop so that the terrorists don't win.

"We must fight them over there, so that we don't fight them over here"

'I wanna say one thing to the American people . I want you to listen to me, I'm gonna say this again - I - DID - NOT HAVE sexual relations with that woman (Miss Lewinsky). I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are FALSE and I need to go back to work for the American people.' Bill Clinton

Originally posted by RoScoLaz
"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.”

—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

What exactly is it that you find so stupid with this quote?

It's quite valid, are you having trouble comprehending the meaning?

There happens to be known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.

"We hold these truths to be self evident"

Because apparently nobody does.

This thread will continue for decades and never nail every stupid quote.
But here's one for the ages:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."

Congressional Oath


So far very few...if any at all...have upheld their end of that deal.

"If I could have done something else I would have"
Obama

Originally posted by christina-66
'I wanna say one thing to the American people . I want you to listen to me, I'm gonna say this again - I - DID - NOT HAVE sexual relations with that woman (Miss Lewinsky). I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are FALSE and I need to go back to work for the American people.' Bill Clinton

As an American, I say to my fellows-how did we miss that??!! We should lose some of W's points since we had to be reminded. I facepalm in dismay.......

'Complacency Kills'-General Mattis, USMC

We had signs posted with this on it all over the F.O.B.s in Iraq.

"Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"

President Obama in his response when he changed his decision to require military to pay for their injuries due to war!

"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die."

George W. Bush,

Washington, D.C., Dec. 7,

Stupidest things said in the government ....
"As president I will _____________" Fill in the blank with whatever.
Each time someone says this on the POTUS campaign trail .. you know it won't happen.


BTW .. EXCELLENT THREAD!!
It'll probably end up being the longest thread ATS has ever had!

"I think my wife likes being in the White House more than I do" Obama

Sorry haven't read responses yet but the Dumbest has to be



"WAR ON TERROR"

US Supreme Court declaring mandatory nationalized healthcare "is a tax".

No American has to pay a tax unless he does something. Now just being BORN / ALIVE means you have to pay this new mandatory Federal Tax in 2014. Even if you can't work.

America's Quadrapalegic's and mentally disabled are going to have a hard time getting $$$$ to pay their new mandatory Federal Tax.

"And they have no disregard for human life." --George W. Bush, on the brutality of Afghan fighters, Washington, D.C., July 15, 2008

A Ronald Reagan classic

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."

Priceless

"No one has any intention of building a wall."

- Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the State Council of East Germany at a press conference on June 15, 1961, shortly before he gave the order to build the Berlin Wall.

I didn't inhale and never tried it again." –Bill Clinton

Oh man, I can't believe this one slid so far:

"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair