The Best 10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes

by Dick CheneyOso Bruno’s Top ten

June 2008

10) "Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better." –June 4,

2003

9) "I had other priorities in the sixties than military service." –on his five

draft deferments, April 5, 1989

8) "There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in

fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise." --Sept. 10, 2005

7) "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound,

comprehensive energy policy." –April 30, 2001

6) "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --March 16, 2003

5) "We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we

believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." --March 16, 2003

4) "In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.

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3) "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- on the

Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005

2) "Oh, yeah. He is. Big time.'' --agreeing with then-candidate George W. Bush, who was overheard at a campaign rally saying, "There's Adam Clymer, major league a**hole from The New York Times," Sept. 4,

2000

1) "Go f*ck yourself." --to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the

Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton, June 25, 2004