The 25 Dumbest Quotes from the Bush Years

16. "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —President Bush, to a divorced mother of three in Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)

17. "It's a slam-dunk case!" —CIA Director George Tenet, discussing WMD and the case for war during a meeting in the Oval Office, Dec. 21, 2002 (Source)

18. "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 (Source)

19. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" —President Bush, joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, March 24, 2004 (Read more)

20. "From a marketing point of view, you don't roll out new products in August." —White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, on why the Bush administration waited until after Labor Day to try to sell the American people on war against Iraq, "New York Times" interview, Sept. 7, 2002 (Source)

21. "I don't recall." —Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who repeated the phrase, or some variation, more than 70 times in response to congressional questions about the firing of U.S. attorneys, April 20, 2007 (Watch video)

22. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." —President Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act, Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch video clip)

23. (tie) "So?" —Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to an ABC News correspondent who cited a poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting, March 19, 2008 (Source)

And:

"So what?" —President Bush, responding to a an ABC News correspondent who pointed out that Al Qaeda wasn't a threat in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded, Dec. 14, 2008 (Source)

24. "George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God." —Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the former defense undersecretary in charge of hunting down top terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2003 (Source)

25. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." —President Bush, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008 (Source)

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

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