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This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.

2003

★ 0.9

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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, March 22, 1990 · 1990

★ 1.9

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Fast, fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch was in the bed before the room was dark.

1974

★ 2.1

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Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

1962

★ 2.8

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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here.

Donald Rumsfeld

2003

★ 3.5

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Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld

2003

★ 3.5

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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.

1986

★ 3.7

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This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990 · 1990

★ 3.7

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There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely... My answer is, bring 'em on.

2003

★ 3.7

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I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides.

2017

★ 3.7

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I have wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, I woulda handcuffed lightnin', throw thunder in jail.

1974

★ 3.8

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I'm the decider.

Press Conference, April 18, 2006 · 2006

★ 3.8

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One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.

2020

★ 4.5

Press conference

Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.

Mohammed al-Sahhaf

2003

★ 5.2

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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

2012

★ 5.3

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You play to win the game.

2002

★ 6.2

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As 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 some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Donald Rumsfeld

2002

★ 6.8

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Baghdad is safe, protected. There are no American infidels in Baghdad.

Mohammed al-Sahhaf

2003

★ 6.9

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I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1998

★ 7.1

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I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.

1967

★ 7.4