Donald Rumsfeld at a press briefing: 'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.'
Poor Rummy. Under pressure at home from his own administration, he is now the not-so-proud winner of the Foot in Mouth award presented by the Plain English Campaign group.
Later: It's always nice to beat the Beeb to a story like this, but of course they've got the advantage of giving you the above quote in audio!
Posted by Joe at December 2, 2003 09:24 AMI know not what to say in knowing that my foot is always firmly in my mouth.
Posted by: martin at December 3, 2003 12:51 PM"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said."
Posted by: Joe at December 3, 2003 02:15 PM