Top 10 Unfortunate Political One-Liners

Did He Just Say That?

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Mark Foley

1998
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"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

This quote is more ironic than a whole double-CD album of Alanis Morrissette songs. Republican Rep. Mark Foley, having uttered this gem at the height of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, was brought down by an addiction to sexually explicit text messages to male congressional pages. It's like rain on your wedding day.

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