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• When I was your age we ate wood and rocks ... Cripes! - Re
• You may believe you understand what you thought I said, but have you ever realised that what I said was not what you thought?
• I thought you said, "grand illusion," not "grand delusion!
• I thought you said that your dog does not bite! -- It's not my dog.
• I know you think you thought you knew what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you understood what you thought I meant.
• If you said what you thought, you'd be speechless.
• Excuse me, what did you say? Oh, I thought you said "Whop".
• Saddam Hussein is] Hitler revisited... worse than Hitler.
  -- President George Bush. When challenged on the analogy, he said...
• A short speech is often a good speech and certainly has the advantage of being much less able to be a bad speech than a long speech.
  A long speech is often a bad speech precisely because it was not a short speech....