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# Silly quotes contest at openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19065/
- Published: 2006-09-14T10:09:15.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:13.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

We at openDemocracy had a little competition for meaningless & silly quotes today. You are more than welcome to add your own findings in the comments...  

Suggested by [Isabel Hilton](../../../author/Isabel%5FHilton.jsp): 

*"China is a big country with a lot of Chinese people living there" -- Charles De Gaulle*

Suggested by [Rob Cawston](../../../author/Rob%5FCawston.jsp):

*“it’s not nice to kill innocent people” -- G. W. Bush*

Suggested by [Jon Bright](../../../author/Jon%5FBright.jsp):

*"I've got a gut feeling in my stomach" -- Alan Sugar in the London paper*

Suggested by [Jessica Reed](../../../author/Jessica%5FReed.jsp):

*"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time." -- Charles de Gaulle*

 Suggested by [Tony Curzon Price](../../../author/Tony%5FCurzon%5FPrice.jsp):

*"You bet I might have done!" -- John Kerry, asked if he would have gone to Iraq.*