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Netlore Archive:  A collection of quotes circulating via email, misattributed to presidential candidate John Kerry

Description:  Email flier
Circulating since:  July 2004
Status:  False
Analysis:  See below
 


Email example contributed by L. Shelton, 14 July 2004:

Subject: Kerry Speaks

And the Democrats think Bush says stupid things.....

John F. Kerry speaks:

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- John F. Kerry   

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- John F. Kerry  

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
-  John F. Kerry    

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
- John F. Kerry   

"The future will be better tomorrow."
- John F. Kerry    

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- John F. Kerry    

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
-  John F. Kerry   

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- John F. Kerry    

"Public speaking is very easy."
- John F. Kerry   

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- John F. Kerry    

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- John F. Kerry   

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- John F. Kerry   

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
-  John F. Kerry  

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and  water that are doing it."
- John F. Kerry    

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- John F. Kerry


Comments:  If some of these nitwitticisms seem familiar, it's not because you've ever heard Senator John F. Kerry utter them. With the glaring exception of the first example — which is a close paraphrase of something President G.W. Bush actually said in 2000 — proper credit for the majority of the regrettable statements on this list goes to former Vice-President Dan Quayle (see sources below).

Give or take a few individual quotations, the same list has circulated continuously since 1999, with the statements attributed variously to J. Danforth Quayle, President G.W. Bush, Vice-President Al Gore, and now presidential candidate John Kerry.


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Sources and further reading:

Dan Quayle Quotes
From the Netlore Archive, 1999

The Official Internet Quayle Quote List
Compiled by Michael Goldsman

Putting the Lie to Bushisms
From the Irregular Times

The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations
by David Milsted (Cassell, 1999)


Last updated: 07/19/04


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