Duh...

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C.

We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.

-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don't know.

-- Barbi Benton, former Playboy bunny

Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

-- Yogi Berra

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.

-- Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by watching.

-- Yogi Berra

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

-- Yogi Berra

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...

-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar"

They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

-- George Armstrong Custer

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

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