This is the top 10 from a list of the 25 Most Idiotic Political Quotes…

10. "You don’t have money to fund the war on children, but you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people? If he can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement." –Rep. Peter Stark (D-CA)

9. "I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon." –President George W. Bush, despite the fact that it would later be revealed that U.S. intelligence had already concluded that Iran abandoned its nuclear program in 2003

8. "It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure." –White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, admitting she had never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis

7. "I don’t recall." –former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’, who repeated the phrase 122 times in response to congressional questions about the firing of U.S. attorneys

6. "Don’t tase me, bro!" –University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, to police officers just before being tasered for resisting arrest after asking too many annoying questions at a John Kerry event (Watch video clip)

5. "The administration was opposed to voting on (the Iraq war resolution) in the fall of 2002 … because we didn’t think it belonged in the confines of the election. We thought it made it too political. We wanted it outside the confines of the election. It seemed it make things move too fast. There were things that needed to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad and yet." –former Bush adviser Karl Rove, with a straight face (Watch video clip)

4. "As yesterday’s positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." –President George W. Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act (Watch video clip)

3. "In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country." –Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the United Nations

2. "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." –Miss Teen South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton, after being asked why 1/5th of 1 Americans can’t locate the U.S on a world map (Watch video clip)

1. "(I have) a wide stance." –Sen. Larry Craig, explaining to his arresting officer why he was playing footsie in a Minneapolis airport mens’ room (Watch video reenactment)

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