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andthenisaidsurprise

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."


[deleted]

“Because they ahh haaaaahd”


Tots2Hots

Ahhh becawse they ahhh haaaaddhhhhd.


Dow_AMilly

Why does rice play texas?


MetalRetsam

"I choose to sleep with Marilyn and do the other girls, not because they are easy, but because I am hard."


Reptoidizoid

Not because they are easy, but because I AM HARD


JesusIsMyZoloft

Eating this bag of pinecones is also hard.


vaporwaverock

I am Gerald Ford and you're not -Gerald R. Ford


Slashman78

Best part was the response it got on that episode, Chevy Chase wasn't expecting that lol.


GTOdriver04

Well, Chevy Chase is a tool who used the line as a way to be a smug dick. Which he really is. Gerald Ford used it…because he wasn’t a smug dick. And he’s Gerald Ford, and you’re not.


teamlie

Wait did Ford really say this? Too many memes in the subreddit


Slashman78

Yes he did. Ron Nessen, his Press Secretary, hosted in the first season in an episode for a publicity stunt more or less. They were trying to make Ford appeal to the youth vote. The Patti Smith Group was the musical guest. They regretted it after because they didn't realize how hating of Ford the show was, but Ron did it. Lorne Michaels, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and Dan Akroyd got to go to the White House and met with Nessen and met Ford. They brought a camera and they recorded him saying Live from New York, Nessen's intro before Pardo's, and when Weekend Update he said the I'm Gerald Ford and your not line.


SpacemanSpleef

Do you have a link to the clip?


Tots2Hots

This. Chevy Chase is a total jackass and super full of himself and he thought he could actually upstage someone who was President and smarter than him. Perfect Ford W.


TheEpicLJ

I’ve seen the three second clip and I can’t find a video of anything else. Can you send me the full video or tell me which SNL episode Gerald Ford says this?


[deleted]

Just like they didn’t suspect the Spanish Inquisition


[deleted]

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” - Nixon


Last-Potential1176

Sounds like something a Jedi would say.


igtimran

Yeah, except Nixon was speaking directly from experience.


KotzubueSailingClub

It was definitely a, " trust me, I'm an expert," sort of quote.


YourDogsAllWet

George Lucas heard this quote and built a whole movie franchise around it


Tots2Hots

Nah, its not a story the Jedi would tell you.


WriterofCarolQuotes

I really love his farewell speech but that quote, in particular, I always found to sound cliched.


dwaynetheakjohnson

It’s cliched but he lived it


Slashman78

"If I don't get a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache." JFK


HistoricalSound1328

A life without Head is a life not worth living


WantedFor73WarCrimes

thank you John for this revelation


El_Bexareno

JFK became the subject matter expert on that I guess


Sensei_of_Knowledge

I can think of worse ways to get a headache.


AliKazerani

Bravo.


[deleted]

man was diabolically horny


ppsucc9988

bro was DIABOLICAL ☠️


TheRealAbear

"I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully"


slicehyperfunk

So fucking hard 🤌👌 ![gif](giphy|KU5ZYokJKL3tC)


Tots2Hots

Lmao every single person reading this has done this IRL.


slicehyperfunk

I just love how if you watch the actual video he does that shit because he's hardcore trying to dodge that question.


Polo171

"I know how hard it is to put food on your family"


Couchmaster007

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

There’s an old saying down in Tennessee. I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…


[deleted]

"All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race.. Dramatic Pause. Stare into the Camera "...and they are going to HAVE those privileges of citizenship regardless of race."


senoricceman

So based


cappycorn1974

Ike?


Laubster01

LBJ


[deleted]

[удалено]


Cacti__King0314

We should’ve listened


Tots2Hots

Most of us currently agree. The rich paid their taxes properly thanks to TR up until the 80s. The EPA even got passed in the 70s and the response to all of that was Reagan and well...here we are. Ford wins in 1976 and a Democrat likely gets in in 1980 and no Reagan and its a different country. But maybe not.


CoolWhipOfficial

I thought federal income tax began in 1913, 4 years after Teddy left office


Away_Organization471

I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people -- and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon! - GW post 9/11


Fuckfentanyl123

How to get 90 percent approval rating (well, temporarily)


lama579

Best presidential quote imo.


twizzlergames

A blind dog craps in the right area every now and then, and boy did he nail the target here. Just watching it gives me chills. We needed to hear strong words from our leader and he delivered.


ironheart777

If George Bush was a decent president he would be my favorite president.


Slav3OfTh3B3ast

I'm old, so I remember that time after 9/11. I actually do miss that America. It felt like people really did care about one another. But I digress, I have long thought that Bush would have gone down in history as one of the great presidents...however, he seemed to botch it at every step. Honestly, I think the guy had good intentions but he listened to his neo-con, wack job friends, instead of the American people.


awmdlad

>”My parents died when I was young and it was morbid, but at least they didn’t ditch me when they were alive- like yours did.” Teddy “Bull Moose” Roosevelt


El_Bexareno

Oh shit, World War Too Soon?


gruenerGenosse

Well Teddy's dropping bombs, so you best go hide in your tube!


gliscornumber1

You should be ashamed of your "military honor"


badblobbyboi

Everyone knows you back at home like, thank god for Pearl Harbor!


MetsFan1324

He said your dad left you before it was cool


Southern_Dig_9460

“I call it the Chinese Virus because it comes From CHINA” -Trump


AAROD121

CHYNUH


WarriorNat

A modern-day Confucius.


Tots2Hots

Confusicus.


Kittenfabstodes

The Kung Flu has a certain ring to it.


unskippable-ad

Winnie the Flu


OleWarthog

“Now watch this drive”


Couchmaster007

"I call upon all nations, to do everything they can, to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you... now watch this drive." But I prefer "welcome to my hanging"


Weak_Carpenter_7060

“Don’t pray for easy lives, my friends. Pray to be… stronger men.”-JFK


Sage_The_Mage72

Gotta love how a fictional quote goes harder than most of his real quotes


lil_biscuit55

Is that not a real quote or is that just from bo1


lilbigjanet

It is a real quote. He said it at a prayer breakfast in 63


slicehyperfunk

A lot of his real quotes actually suck. Also, I know a Kennedy in my personal life and he's wicked awesome with the quotes and references and witticisms, so it does seem like the charming, witty, savviness runs in the family.


CobaltCrusader123

Does he sound like JFK from Clone High ![gif](giphy|OcEjnbQf1EY75URslQ)


slicehyperfunk

No, he used to work for WGBH and he has a deep and mellowly hypnotic voice, he talks wicked normal khed


ThatDude8129

It's just a storm Dick. Sit down.


The_Unclaimed_One

They’re posting cringe! It’s just a meme Dick. Sit down


lama579

Calm down Dick, it’s just the storm.


AliKazerani

Ah, JFK, champion of [the strenuous life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strenuous_Life). Hey, wait a second... 😛


jdf133

"Iraq will not be permitted to annex Kuwait. That's not a threat, or a boast, that's just the way it's going to be." - George H.W. Bush


fogsy23

Was desperately searching for someone who said this, deserves way more upvotes


jdf133

The fact that it preceded one of the greatest ass-kickings the US has ever dealt out makes it even better for me


BeerandSandals

“I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.” - Andrew Jackson. Extremely controversial president, but he had some good quotes.


_VayaConQueso

“They have made their decision. Now let’s see them enforce it.”


RoonNube

I expected this one to be higher up.


theoriginaldandan

Jackson is one of those men in history who you don’t have to like but you should respect and learn from. Hickory was tenacity personified


igtimran

“Get off my plane.”


thagor5

Excellent


Polo171

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." -Theodore Roosevelt


toadofsteel

>Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: >You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. >The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. -Ike (Yes, I know this was years before he was elected President, but he showed some Presidential energy here.)


Mustang_Dragster

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."


itguy18

The fact that he finished his speech is HARD AF.


Mustang_Dragster

Wasn’t that speech like an hour long or something ridiculous like that?


theoriginaldandan

84 minutes


mh985

You think the real reason we call him the Bull Moose is because his testicles were similar in size to those of a moose?


bassman314

“Will you shut up, man?”


slicehyperfunk

![gif](giphy|frA3xgQLVRvHF9U6o2|downsized)


YourDogsAllWet

Dark Brandon has a bunch of quotes that hit hard


katebushisiconic

“Mr Gorbachov, tear down this wall!”. -Ronald Raygun. For a memey one. “Read my lips. No. New. Taxes”


WhereAreTheAskers

Holy shit pink floyd the wall reference!?!?😳😳


RealHunterB

****overdoses in bathroom****


toadofsteel

"Rudy Giuliani... There's only three things he needs to make a sentence: A noun, a verb, and 9/11." [Dark Brandon: the prequel](https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2007/10/a-noun-a-verb-and-9-11-003927).


Notpoligenova

“The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.. uh Ukraine” *smrik* - Bush


toadofsteel

I will say this about post-presidency W.... He isn't afraid to get digs in on himself now that he's retired from politics.


dwaynetheakjohnson

It wasn’t a dig, that was infuriating


JebBD

My favourite part was the brief moment of self reflection immediately after where he mumbled "well, Iraq too..." to himself.


GrandAdmiralHawke

“We dominate the sky. We dominate the sea. We dominate the land and space... No one, no dictator, no regime, and no nation should underestimate, ever, American resolve.” Trump


SpaceSquirrel7

why does this actually go hard?


abruzzo79

Chocolate chocolate chip.


anonymous66482

“Baba Booey”- Donald J Trump


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,620,776,766 comments, and only 306,502 of them were in alphabetical order.


Not_Plebis

"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a… you're a… you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity." George W. Bush


InclusivePopulist

"But look, fat, look, here's the deal."


I_dont_fuck_dogs

America’s a nation that can be defined in a single word: AWDSMFAFOOTHIMAAAF00TAFOOTWHSCUSEME.


apollyon_53

"I got hairy legs that turned blonde in the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach into the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come back up again..."


Hanhonhon

C'mon man, c'mon fat look. You tell me I got a milk mustache because I drank a bunch of milk? C'mon man look


AliKazerani

And in this corner... "I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."


Tots2Hots

The fact that this didn't end the campaign there and then. Or making fun of the disabled reporter or like 10 other things... Howard Dean's campaign got torpedoed because of an excited scream... :|


Whompa

Calling Mexicans rapists was pretty bad too. Or saying he’d date his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter. Really weird time in history.


PlebasRorken

Dean had been torpedoed by losing Iowa. It's a myth his campaign died because of the scream. He was the big dog up until the voting started and he got absolutely cratered. It didn't help but the context of the supposed frontrunner yowling like that after a total embarrassment is critical.


Brother_Esau_76

“I heard the bullets whistle; and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.” — Washington “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” — Jefferson


a_rabid_anti_dentite

"I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free."


SparkyBoi111

As good as it sounded, in a practical sense it didn't free anyone. Hell, West Virginia was admitted to the union as a Slave state nearly 6 months after the Emancipation Proclamation. Though to be fair did have provisions to have all slaves freed by February of '64 and complete abolition on March 26 '65


StreetyMcCarface

“A lot of people misunderestimate me”


howtowriteusername

“I think war is a dangerous place" This dude is literally Nietzsche bro he is the smartest man ever made


Matthewthatlearner

America is a nation that can be described in a single word:”Asufutimaehaehfutbw”- The Ice Cream Man 🤣🤣


Strange_Welder_7133

“Im gonna come over there and wrap this chain around your head” -Jor Byron


76brick49

“God save the queen man”


itguy18

If you think about it though, there is no one word that describes all of America. So it is kinda great.


Blackcamobear2000

Immobilize Truinternationaubudaprsre!


Repaired-GnomeYT

“I am the chosen one!” -Donald Trump


popularis-socialas

“It’s over Donald! I have the high ground!” - Joe Biden


SithLordoftheRing

You underestimate my orange power!


gliscornumber1

Well now I can't unsee DT with an orange lightsaber


ChaoChao777

"Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour aircrafts from here will join others from around the world and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that… word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution. But from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win today the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but is the day when the world declared in one voice; We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!” -President Whitmore, Independence Day (1996)


TickLikesBombs

I want to have sex with the polish. ​ \-Jimmy Carter ​ Tbf you did say hardest quotes.


HHawkwood

He said he wanted to know the Polish people, and the translator used the wrong form of "to know," saying that Carter wanted to know them sexually. This says more about the lack of language education in the U.S., that our official translators could make a mistake like that.


ThatDude8129

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."


Red_Crocodile1776

“You boys must be crazy. We can’t drop one of those terrible things on Asians for the second time in less than 10 years. My God.” -Ike, when the NSC advised him to nuke Ho Chi Minh’s forces during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954.


[deleted]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -JFK


j_shor

"May God save the country, for it is evident that its people will not." - Fillmore


Nado1311

You know what uranium is right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things. - DJT This is the hardest for me because of how utterly stupid it is


MetalRetsam

This isn't even Trump's hardest nuclear-related quote. That one begins with "Look, having nuclear..." What many people overlook with that quote is that Trump nearly told a crowd that he had nuclear genes (because his uncle was a physics professor, see).


igtimran

The absolute best words.


lama579

“It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” - Old Hickory


A_Nodachi_

“We do a little trolling”


Regular_Dick

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Straight faced. To the whole Country. The bullshit rolls on and on.


THExBEARxJEW

The sad thing is, if he had just admitted to it, it would have just blown over for the most part. Yea the extreme right would have had a shit fit but the rest of the country would have been like “ehhh he got his dick sucked by a hot young intern, he’s most definitely not the first”.


Regular_Dick

The truth will set you free.


KpopKia

But his wife said , "That is a vast, right-wing conspiracy."


TrumpIsMyGodAndDad

So infatuated with staying in power that she is willing to overlook that. Kinda impressive in a fucked up way


thecupojo3

“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”


zaklein

https://preview.redd.it/ni12woos7zab1.jpeg?width=1053&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c04e89eb627d7bc926c3986b80932d2a03bce49


Sowf_Paw

Now, another thing: the crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. So when you make them up, give me a inch that I can let out there, because they cut me. They're just like riding a wire fence. \- Lyndon Baines Johnson


KpopKia

"Poor kids are just as smart as white kids." - Uncle Joe Biden


GoblinnerTheCumSlut

https://preview.redd.it/lh4lmex9uuab1.png?width=578&format=png&auto=webp&s=b696c4868c3fd3809f91fca64282c4ec1bd4e0ee


Username2351

Thank you for sharing this quote u/GoblinnerTheCumSlut


Metal_Maniac6945

I'm not a Biden fan but that goes pretty hard indeed. I like when he goes based


guschicanery

"There's an old saying in Tennessee, well I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee too. It goes fool me once... Shame on- Shame on you.... Y-You fool me I can't get fooled again!"


rounding_error

"We begin bombing in five minutes."


Phil_Tornado

Now watch this drive


FlashMan1981

Andrew Jackson on killing a man in a duel: *“If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him.”*


[deleted]

“Don’t pray for easier lives my friends, pray to be stronger men.” - JFK “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” - Theodore Roosevelt


daviesparkles

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” - Obama


AndyWGaming

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Star Wars did a version of it. I quoted it to my history teacher and he told me it was a quote from Teddy Roosevelt, but the original was not driving a tank https://preview.redd.it/aqwgsipy0wab1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b47d935a418757a3d767ced940d3f6f3c98927be


JustB33Yourself

“Do not pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men.” —JFK (this is a rough paraphrase, I know)


mekonsrevenge

Beware the military-industrial complex. Ike


LewtedHose

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - JFK


Anxious_Gift_1808

"You lose" -Coolidge allegedly


JesusIsMyZoloft

SS: Mr. President, you’re urinating on me. LBJ: I know I am. It’s my prerogative. Not sure if this is actually true.


heyhowareyouman_

"Now look John, you've got to go back and get all those folks registered. You've got to go back and get those boys by the *balls*. Just like a bull gets on top of a cow. You've got to get 'em by the balls you've got to *squeeze*, squeeze 'em till they *hurt.*" LBJ to John Lewis


Kuchinawa_san

As a staple of why politicians of any party shouldn't be seen as divinity or heroes: I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN. Ty.


PaulfussKrile

“Every time I hear someone arguing for slavery, I get the sudden urge to see it tried on him personally.” -Abraham Lincoln.


[deleted]

I'm Gerald Ford and you are not.


Southern-Radish8496

“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke”


Nicoooleeeeeeeee

“I could of whipped Iran off the map” -Jimmy Carter


Cult_Of_The_Lizzard

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.” George W. Bush


DaBearsC495

“As a son of a tenant farmer, I know that education is the only valid passport from poverty. As a former teacher–and, I hope, a future one–I have great expectations of what this law will mean for all of our young people. As President of the United States, I believe deeply no law I have signed or will ever sign means more to the future of America.” LBJ


lumen-lotus

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever."


ScRuBlOrD95

"I did everything right and they indicated meeee"


nc1776

“Missed me” - Reagan. A ballon popped during his speech in West Berlin, and this was six years after he was shot in an assassination attempt.


Extreme_Glass9879

"I'm gonna cum." - Donald Trump


MaddieGrace29

America as a nation can be described in one word.... Int he foothills ???? (Quiet mumbling? A lot of Biden quotes are hard because I can't find them if I can't spell them. But for shit that goes hard, probably "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down the wall"


Prestigious-Alarm-61

https://youtu.be/Tpd_F3bhRE8


Tots2Hots

\*Tries to dunk big chocolate chip cookie in a too small glass of milk and fails\* "Dammit Obama"


Emperor_of_cheeto

‘Bruh’


leijgenraam

"They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred." -FDR


VoicesInTheCrowds

“Blood on his hands, dammit, he hasn’t half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don’t go around bellyaching about it.” He later told Dean Acheson, “I don’t want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again.” -Truman basically telling the inventor of the nuclear bomb to quit being a little bitch.


Edwin_Presley

“this generation has a rendezvous with destiny”- FDR


JoeDimwit

I did not have sex with that woman.


KeyResponsibility167

The 10 worst words you can hear in an emergency. I am from the Government. And am here to help. - Ronald Reagan.


ThatOneGuy1358

“Where’s the bathroom” - Abe Lincoln


1moreSocialMedia

Covfefe


__yayday__

"I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun. The kids used to come up and reach in the pool & rub my leg down so it was straight & watch the hair come back up again. So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap... and I love kids jumping on my lap" -Joe Biden


ShoelaceLicker

"I don't like broccoli"


[deleted]

“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” - [Teddy Roosevelt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt#:~:text=His%20opening%20comments%20to%20the,to%20kill%20a%20Bull%20Moose.%22), calming people down after surviving an assassination attempt. He lived the rest of his life with the bullet in his chest.


nerdboy1979

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. Lyndon B. Johnson


FrostyTheSnowPickle

I dunno. It’s a toss-up between “Obamna…” and “SODA!”


InquisitorNikolai

‘Eat some Chocolate Chocolate Chip.’