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I was watching the news... as usual and as weird like everyday, I heard a politician making a, what would anybody call a mis-statement, or "mis-quote".

Below is the one that provoked this post of many other misquotes I remembered reading and could search back from the web.

Most recent: Uttarpradesh, India
The finals of the Ranji Trophy match between UttarPradesh team and Railways team was to be held at a Lucknow ground in UttarPradesh giving the home team advantage.

But, interestingly, at the last minute the match is rescheduled to be held in Wankede stadium, Mumbai. Politics at the center, they say played a role to remove the Uttarpradesh teams advantage and help the Railways team.

When asked, the UttarPradesh sports minister says,
"The match had the permission. But the Regional Sports Officer cancelled it. For the last two days I am searching for this sports officer," said RK Chowdhry, UP Sports Minister.

When Bill Clinton was president of America:
Clinton: "I can spend your money better than you can."
In a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, NY on January 20, 1999, Bill Clinton was asked why not a tax cut if we have a surplus. Clinton's response:
"We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right... But ... if you don't spend it right, here's what's going to happen. In 2013 -- that's just 14 years away -- taxes people pay on their payroll for Social Security will no longer cover the monthly checks... I want every parent here to look at the young people here, and ask yourself, 'Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?' "
Source: Washington Times, January 21, 1999

Al Gore's turn:
At an event in Las Vegas on a Monday, Gore declared potential breast cancer victims faced "a long waiting line before they could get a biopsy or, uh, or a uh, another kind of, what am I looking for, a sonogram or...." People in the crowd shouted "mammogram."
(Source: Fox News 09/18/00; MSNBC 09/21/00 - The News with Brian Williams)

US Republican politician Dan Quayle:
"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future." -Dan Quayle

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle is very popular with mis-quotes..more..

Our very own George.W.Bush:
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country". -George W.Bush

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -George W. Bush

Also read: The Education of the President: Bush On Pakistan (Bush, though we all think he likes Pakistan a lot, ... seems like knows not much on Pakistan!!

Most interesting of all: And actually good quotes, not mis-quotes
During his period as president, a lot of people wondered, 'How dare an actor have the audacity to run for this job,'
Ronald Reagan told the Chicago Sun-Times in 1990. "There were times when I wondered how you could do this job without having been an actor."

An old Russian woman had asked Mikhail Gorbachev whether communism had been invented by a scientist or a politician. Gorbachev said he thought it was a politician. "That explains it," said the woman. "A scientist would have tried it on mice first."

Last two 'interesting' quotes: As sp(read) from Venkat's blog