[And then there were the antics in good old San Francisco. Could they somehow be tied to Justice Scalia's remarks in #19 above? You be the "judge".]
#16: "Is he hot? Yeah. Is he hung? Yeah. Is he [she waved her hand to suggest bisexual]? Not unless you can give a better [she mimicked eating a banana] than me." --Court TV's Kimberly Newsom, at a gay rights fundraiser, on her husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

#15: "If I could only go through the ducts and leap out onstage in a cape — that's my dream." --Ralph Nader, on the presidential debates
[ We'll that's an image that makes one shudder. Remember Howard Stern's entrance to the MTV Music Video Awards in 1992 ? ]

#14: "You bet we might have." --Sen. John Kerry, asked if he would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein if he refused to disarm.
[ He is still trying to make up his mind in time for the 2008 election! ]

#13: "Gammie, we love you dearly, but you're just not very hip. She thinks 'Sex and the City' is something married people do, but never talk about." --Jenna Bush, speaking at the Republican convention
[What can we say... the eloquence and stand up spontaneity is apparetly a genetic trait. ]

[From the mouth of the Terminator we have this gem to ponder: ]
#12: "All of a sudden, we see riots, we see protests, we see people clashing. The next thing we know, there is injured or there is dead people. We don't want to get to that extent." --California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the dangers posed by gay marriage

[ Understatement of the year : ]
#11: "I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified." --CIA Director Porter Goss, in a March 3, 2004 interview that was conducted while he was still in Congress and which was cut from "Fahrenheit 9/11" (Watch video)

[Ah... was this really a mistake or a well scripted surgical strike on the media? ]
#10: "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet....I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't — you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." --President George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made