We’re just going to let these folks’ words speak for themselves.
“There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.”
—David Hasselhoff
“I don’t like any female comedians. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.”
—Jerry Lewis
“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a banknote, for two 20s.”
—Warren Beatty
“Out getting a taco.”
—sportscaster Bob Griese, on the absence of NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya
“My music isn’t just music—it’s medicine.”
—Kanye West
“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”
—John Wayne
“A woman’s place is in the wrong.”
—James Thurber
“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived.”
—Rod Blagojevich
“I’ll fight any man, any animal. If Jesus were here, I’d fight him, too.”
—Mike Tyson
“The Romanians, they’ll stick a knife in you as soon as look at you. There might be some good ones. Forgive me if there are any here, and hopefully that’s a ‘no’ because I wouldn’t get out of here.”
—English city councilor Robert Fraser
“Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren’t they?”
—George H.W. Bush, visiting Auschwitz
“Old people should just die and know when it’s time to move over and leave the future for the young.”
—Roseanne Barr
Worldwide, the average child receives $32 worth of toys per year. The average American kid: $328.