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The Dumbest Quote of 2005: Cast Your Vote

1) “You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.”

• Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
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2) “You work three jobs?… Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.” (Listen to audio)

• President Bush, to a divorced mother of three in Omaha, Nebraska
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3) “What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) - this is working very well for them.”

• Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston
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4) “Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.”

• FEMA Director Michael Brown
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5) “What didn’t go right?’”

• President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown “because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right” in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort
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