Which World Leader Said It
Can You Tell Trump From Napoleon?
The old saying by George Santayana that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" couldn't be more relevant today. Can you tell current leaders from famous leaders of the past?
- “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
~Editor's Note: Ah, more love for the troops. This person is also known to be an elitist line-cutter fond of saying "Do you know who I am?"
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (R)Senator John Kerry (D - Massachusetts)My Cranky GrandmaFormer Senator Barbara Boxer (D - California) - "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
~Editor's Note: I wonder why nobody asks that?
Former Senator Harry Reid (D - Nevada)Cowpoke and Late President Ronald Reagan (R)Former President George W. Bush (R)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (R) - “Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”
~Editor's Note: To be fair, this may be true one day if we don't get a handle on overpopulation.
Senator Nancy Pelosi (D - California)Former Governor Sarah Palin (R - Alaska)Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas)Former Actor-in-Training Ashton Kutcher (D) - “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
~Editor's Note: Some would say this person succeeded.
Former President George W. Bush (R)Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R)Dentally Challenged MI6 Enemy Dr. EvilLate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (C - Great Britain) - “Well, I learned a lot….I went down to Latin America to find out from them and learn their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries.”
~Editor's Note: I learn something old every day.
Former Vice President Dan Quayle (R)Late President Ronald Reagan (R)House Speaker Paul Ryan (R)Former President Jimmy Carter (D) - “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said: ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
~Editor's Note: Sadly, in 1929 nobody had televisions to watch this. Not even then-President Herbert Hoover.
Late President Ronald Reagan (R)Former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman (R - Minnesota)President Donald Trump (R)Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) - “I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
~Editor's Note: Who says you can't have it all?
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R - California)Former Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson (R)Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D)Former Senator Al Franken (D - Minnesota) - “By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.”
~Editor's Note: Training men on how to be killed is extremely important business that shouldn't be ruined by a bunch of women.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R)National Treasure Pat Robertson (R)Former Mayor Clint Eastwood (R - Carmel, CA)Senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell (R - Delaware) - "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians".
~Editor's Note: Sadly, there is more than one believable candidate for this gem.
Vice President Mike Pence (R)Former Presidential Hopeful and Crazy Uncle Pat Robertson (R)Former Senator Rick Santorum (R - Pennsylvania)Horse Lover and Inventor Ann Coulter (R) (In reference to a catastrophic event in American history)
“Those who died, their lives will never be the same again.”~Editor's Note: It's incredible how much dying changes the rest of your life.
Hand Model and Senator Lindsey Graham (R - S.C.)Former Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California)Former President George W. Bush (R)Former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani (R)- “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
~So, I'll be breaking into some offices in Watergate and selling arms to Iran this weekend...because it's totally legal.
President Donald Trump (R)Late President Lyndon Johnson (D)Late President Richard Nixon (R)Former Vice President and Darth Vader Impersonator Dick Cheney (R) - “Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.”
~Editor's Note: Also, if the government paid everyone a nickel, and had a 2,000% tax on it, everyone would be employed and the government would make money!
Former Governor and Education Pioneer Sam Brownback (R - Kansas)Counselor to the President and Bowling Green Massacre Survivor Kellyanne Conway (party varies)Former Congresswoman and Accomplished Beard, Michele Bachmann (R - Minnesota)Attorney General and Memory Lapse Case Study Jeff Sessions (R) - NFL Players Can "Do Free Speech On Their Own Time"
~Editor's Note: To be fair, he had just binge-watchedA Handmaid's Tale.
Treasury Secretary and Bond Villain Steve Mnuchin (R)Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis (I)Noted Novelist Franz Kafka (B - Czechoslovakia)Iconic Inventor Steve Jobs (D) - (When asked what she knew about the Cuban Missile Crisis) “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”
~Editor's Note: Head's up, defunding education hurts BOTH parties.
Venerable Acting Prodigy Adam Sandler (D)Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino (R)Former MTV VeeJay Kennedy (R)Senator Marco Rubio (R - Florida) - “This is an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.”
~Editor's Note: Well, at least it's an honest statement.
Affable Jokester Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas)Former President George W. Bush (R)Former Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney (R)Former President Barack Obama (D) - “We had no domestic attacks under Bush – we’ve had one under Obama.”
~Editor's Note: I seem to recall there was something...something around September of 2001. Does anyone else recall that?
Serial Groom and Former Mayor of New York City (R)Counsel to the President and Crypt-keeping Hobbyist Kellyanne Conway (varies)Alleged Actor Mel Gibson (R)Seal Fur Coat Lover and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) - “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
~Editor's Note: Said at an environmental conference. Almost true, too. America is the second biggest.
Former Vice President Al Gore (D)Legendary Actor Robert Redford (D)Former President George W. Bush (R)Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (D) - "It all depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
~Editor's Note: Showing off some cunningly linguistic acrobatics.
Former President Bill Clinton (D)Former Governor and Family Man, Eliot Spitzer (D - New York)Former Vice President Dan Quayle (R)Elmer Fudd Impersonator Jeff Sessions (R) - (commenting on a recent poll showing that most Americans didn’t believe the Iraq War was worth fighting.) "So?"
~Editor's Note: Spoken in snarling growl.
4th Grader and Super Mario Odyssey Enthusiast, Madison Blake (?)Former Vice President and Dark Lord of the Sith, Dick Cheney (R)Professional Lip Syncher Britney Spears (R)Noted Time Travelers, Bill AND Ted - “The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.” (1988)
~Editor's Note: Thanks for clearing that up.
Dr. Who (L - Great Britain)Former President George W. Bush (R)The Terminator, reprogrammed (D)Former Vice President Dan Quayle (R)