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What are your favorite political lies in quotes?

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"We have discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq"

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Try_harder

Thepillowman wrote: »

Vote yes for jobs

There was a recovery, wasnt there?

Captain Obvious

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

A nice mix of false, fanciful and confusing.

Outlaw Pete

Mine's just two words and is because of how brazen it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q29F1jPvNk

storker

"The economic fundamentals are sound."

Overheal

“I won the popular vote”

Bricriu

Biggest lie about Waste Charges some years ago by Alan Kelly T.D. (Labour Scum):
'With the new charges, people will save up to 95% of their current bill.'

What happened? Waste Charges went up by huge amounts. Mine went from €70 to €350 (in West of Ireland).

freshpopcorn

The time Joan Burton fell into water and said she was grand!

Defunkd

"Ireland at the heart of Europe" - some referendum slogan by all main parties to obtain a vote the eu wanted and before the eu decided the irish people should repay (how many?) billions in debt that we didn't accrue.

dr.fuzzenstein

Defunkd wrote: »

"Ireland at the heart of Europe" - some referendum slogan by all main parties to obtain a vote the eu wanted and before the eu decided the irish people should repay (how many?) billions in debt that we didn't accrue.

Or Ireland could have defaulted and by now Shepherd would have been to job of choice for the few thousand that actually had work.
This "but! but! the Greeks!", what did they do? Farted around, cist themselves billions and in the end found out it was better to play along.

Hazys

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

You're from Boston, you idiot.

ArchXStanton

Defunkd wrote: »

"Ireland at the heart of Europe" - some referendum slogan by all main parties to obtain a vote the eu wanted and before the eu decided the irish people should repay (how many?) billions in debt that we didn't accrue.

Only to be given the acronym PIIGS...

Anyhooo this one's a belter from Obama,how he kept a straight face...

"There's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”

byte

A lot done. More to do.

From Bertie's hayday.

Sky King

“I get give or take, it works out at about with expenses 140,000 a year and I pay 30.3% tax on that, so it’s about a net 100,000 and out of that 100,000 I run a home in Dublin, Castlebar and Brussels. I wanna tell you something, try it sometime…”

Sky King

byte wrote: »

A lot done. More to do.

From Bertie's hayday.

Little did we know it was people he was referring to.

washman3

We will experience a soft landing.....

wexie

I dunno folks, personally I think when it comes to funny political quotes it's just never going to get any better than James Danforth Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

indioblack

diomed wrote: »

"Peace for our time" was a declaration made by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain in his 30 September 1938 speech concerning the Munich Agreement and the Anglo-German Declaration.

How did that pan out? Not too well. World War II kicked off.

That was a lie?

furiousox

A classic from Donald 'Rummy' Rumsfeld regarding WMDs in Iraq.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because 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.
And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."

Ulysses Gaze

Classic from Mary Hanafin

"'Unfortunately, our people are now living longer'"

[Deleted User]

1987 General Election slogan, made notorious by the enormous cutbacks which FF, with Ray MacSharry as Minister of Finance, implemented as soon as they got into power:

Richard Hillman

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Classic from Mary Hanafin

"'Unfortunately, our people are now living longer'"

That doesn't sound like a lie at all

mzungu

An all time classic courtesy of the Iran-Contra affair:

“We did not, I repeat, did not trade weapons or anything else [to Iran] for hostages, nor will we” - President Ronald Reagan

“A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.” - President Ronald Reagan (a few months later)

Defunkd

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

"We have turned the corner"

"Nobody could have seen it coming"

"Nama is the only game in town"

But we did turn a corner, then another corner and then another...

"We can't tax our way out of a recession" *introduces USC, property tax and attempted water charges* 'well, FF introduced them and we can't change them'

And Willie O'Dea in court....can't remember what his perjury was but the liar is still involved in politics...smh.

bnt

"We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general."
-- Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)

mzungu

“I have previously stated, and I repeat now, that the United States plans no military intervention in Cuba” - President John F. Kennedy

Capt'n Midnight

Ipso wrote: »

Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea.

Sir Humphrey: East Yemen, isn't that a democracy?
Foreign Office Official: Its full name is the Peoples' Democratic Republic of East Yemen.
Sir Humphrey: Ah I see, so it's a communist dictatorship.
— Yes, Minister

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny/RealLife

Honourable mentions to the DUP and People's Republic of Cork

the purple tin

Dick Cheney on Iraq invasion... 'My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators.'
On WMD... 'We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.'

and shortly after... ' Yeah. I did misspeak. I said repeatedly during the show weapons capability. We never had any evidence that he had acquired a nuclear weapon.'

tayto lover

"Last night I met a man with two pints ..." -- Enda.

the purple tin

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” A US major in Vietnam explaining why he bombed a town into oblivion that had been taken over by VC.

Lucy8080

" we are living away beyond our means..."

Charlie Haughey -ministerial broadcast 1980.