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Your main resource, along with the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/wotd.html.

One of my all-time favorites: "We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant." --Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945.

"What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind." --Vice President Dan Quayle, in a speech before the United Negro College Fund.

"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said." --Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

"I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged." —Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

And the George Bush idiot-isms. So very, very many: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushdumbquotes.htm, or http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm, or http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushismsaudio.htm. Just wait another few minutes, there'll be another quote along presently.

On the US Navy: "The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin." --Herman Melville (1819-1891), US author, White-Jacket (1850).

"O wretched mortals! Open your eyes!" --Leonardo da Vinci.