“Fighting for peace” makes just about as much sense as “making love for chastity”.  These slogans and statements were actually thought to be logical.  On the other hand, I think they are pretty amusing.

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When Richard J. Daley was Mayor of Chicago he had to deal with the upheaval and violence resulting from the riots that plunged Chicago into chaos in 1968.  In a speech, Mayor Daley said “Let’s get one thing straight.  The police aren’t here to create disorder.  The police are here to preserve disorder.”

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Sigmund Freud will always be considered the father of modern psychology.  He is quoted in saying “The great question, which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years into the feminine soul, is ‘what do women want?’”

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah is quoted in saying “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”  So tell me, does that mean he is for or against capital punishment?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the following statement defining the nutritional status of ketchup.  According to them, ketchup is to “be counted as one of the two vegetables required as part of the school lunch program.

When Lt. Col. Oliver North was called to testify before a congressional committee in 1987, he never lied.  Instead, the offered “a different version of the facts.”

The South Africa Ministry of Information responded to accusations of censorship in 1988 by stating that “We do not have censorship.  What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.”

Al Capone was one of America’s most feared mobsters.  He defended his bootlegging activities during the prohibition by saying “When I sell liquor it’s called bootlegging.  When my customers serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality.”

Lily Tomlin was one of our best loved comic actresses.  She commented on the “rat race” by saying “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win it, you’re still a rat.”

President Bill Clinton was, if nothing else, entertaining.  When asked about allegations that he smoked “pot” when he was in college, he replied. “Yes, but I didn’t inhale.”

When actor John Wayne was interviewed by Playboy Magazine, he was quoted in the article as saying “I don’t feel we did wrong in taking thes great country away from (the Indians).  There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”