{"id":8542,"date":"2016-06-01T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Projects\/Internsdc\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:46:51","slug":"ridiculous-quotes-campaign-trail-prepare-laugh-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/ridiculous-quotes-campaign-trail-prepare-laugh-cringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous Quotes from the Campaign Trail \u2013 Prepare to Laugh and Cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

They said what?<\/em> Ladies and gentlemen, some downright outrageous (and some hilariously) ridiculous quotes from the candidates who are hoping to run our country. Not all the outrageousness is from Trump. There are many lulus that are seriously quotable. Yikes.<\/p>\n

\"Please-clap-quote-by-Jeb-Bush\"<\/p>\n

Quotes on climate change:<\/h2>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Really Cold Outside \u2026 We Could Use A Big Fat Dose Of Global Warming!\u201d Donald Trump<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Candidates who defer questions about climate change saying \u201cI\u2019m not a scientist\u201d should \u201cstart Listening to those who are.\u201d Hillary Clinton<\/p>\n

The Pope\u2019s statements on climate change will make a profound difference, and the Republican\u2019s denial of it is embarrassing.  \u2014 Bernie Sanders<\/p>\n

\u201cThere could be some man-made something. But you know, if you look at China, they\u2019re doing nothing about it.\u201d \u2013 Donald Trump<\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s a change in weather. I am not a great believer in man-made climate change. Donald Trump<\/p>\n

Quotes about each other, and themselves:<\/h2>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s gotten very loud and obnoxious.\u201d \u2013 Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton<\/p>\n

\"Chris-Christie-quote-on-Clinton\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is too much shouting. There is too much making fun of each other.\u201d \u2013 Bernie Sanders<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cIf you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.\u201d\u2013 Ted Cruz<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?\u201d \u2013 Trump on Carly Fiorina<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I refuse to brag, and as you know very well, this tremendous increase in view interest and advertising is due 100% to \u2018Donald J. Trump.\u201d \u2013 Trump, in response to CNN\u2019s huge debate ratings.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 do you think I\u2019m a pathological liar like CNN does? Or do you think I\u2019m an honest person?\u201d \u2013 Ben Carson<\/p>\n

\u201cI never hit my mother with a hammer, and I never stabbed anybody.\u201d \u2013 Mike Huckabee<\/p>\n

Naming the enemies she is most proud to have made over the course of their political lives, Hillary said…\u201cWell, in addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians,\u201d Clinton remarked, to laughter in the audience, adding, \u201cProbably the Republicans.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMy mom is here so we shouldn\u2019t be pushing any grannies off cliffs.\u201d \u2013 Ted Cruz<\/p>\n

\u201cHell yeah, I would! You gotta step up, man.\u201d\u2013 Jeb Bush (in response to travel back in time to kill baby Hitler)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. \u2013 Trump on Megyn Kelly, Fox News moderator<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren\u2019t captured.\u201d \u2013 Trump on Sen. McCain<\/p>\n

“I’ll buy you a tequila. Or even some famous Colorado brownies.” \u2014 Ted Cruz<\/p>\n

Quotes on foreign policy:<\/h2>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as other people\u2019s children.\u201d \u2013 Hillary Clinton<\/p>\n

\u201cI would bomb the s*** out of them.\u201d \u2013 Trump on ISIS<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to do some things that are pretty hard. Pretty, pretty hard, to quote Larry David.\u201d \u2013 Bernie Sanders<\/p>\n

\"Hillary-Clinton-Quote-on-Peace\"<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Mexico sends its people, they\u2019re not sending their best. They\u2019re not sending you\u2026they\u2019re sending people that have lots of problems, and they\u2019re bringing those problems with us. They\u2019re bringing drugs. They\u2019re bringing crime. They\u2019re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.\u201d \u2013 Trump<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Hispanics.\u201d \u2013 Trump (captioned while eating Americanized Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will carpet-bomb them into oblivion. I don\u2019t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we\u2019re going to find out!\u201d \u2014Ted Cruz<\/p>\n

On people in general:<\/h2>\n

\u201cI hate to crash the party\u2026\u201d \u2013 John Kasich when he couldn\u2019t get a word in during a debate<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll give you a ribbon for participation. And a juice box.\u201d \u2013 Bobby Jindal (questioning Chris Christie)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t work for crazies.\u201d \u2013 Ben Carson (reference to mental illness)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf I become president we\u2019re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again.\u201d \u2013 Donald Trump<\/p>\n

Strom Thurmond had four kids after age 67. If you\u2019re not willing to do that, we need to come up with a new immigration system.\u201d \u2013 Lindsey Graham<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhich means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours.\u201d \u2013 Jeb Bush<\/p>\n

Quotes about gun policy<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cHey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can\u2019t get us all.\u201d \u2013 Ben Carson<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI think the likelihood of Hitler being able to carry out his goals would have been greatly diminished if people had been armed.\u201d \u2013 Ben Carson<\/p>\n

\"Bernie-Sanders-quote-on-guns\"<\/p>\n

“Keep enemies of the state away from guns.”\u2013 Donald Trump<\/p>\n

It definitely has been a most quotable election year!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They said what? Ladies and gentlemen, some downright outrageous (and some hilariously) ridiculous quotes from the candidates who are hoping to run our country. Not all the outrageousness is from Trump. There are many lulus that are seriously quotable. Yikes. Quotes on climate change: \u201cIt\u2019s Really Cold Outside \u2026 We Could Use A Big Fat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}