De Voet in de Mond prijs 2003 gaaaaaat naaaaaaaar …… Donald Rumsfeld!
De door ons allen geliefde en bewonderde erudiet Rumsfeld krijgt de prijs in de Engelse taal voor de uitspraak:
“Reports that say 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.“
John Lister, woordvoerder van de Plain English Campaign, verklaarde de keuze in zijn toelichting: “We think we know what he means. But we don’t know if we really know.”
Weer zo’n greep uit de intellectuele bagage van Rumsfeld naar de klassieke filosoof Socrates.
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Ik dacht dat Rummy meer iets met Thrasymachus had…
vain, blustering, refusing to discourse, fond of making an oration, a mere
child in argument, unable to foresee that the next ‘move’ will ‘shut him up’,
framing general notions, vainly tries to cover his confusion with banter and insolence
ja, zoiets…
Plato (427-347 BC), The Republic
De runner up, Arnold Schwarzenegger had ook een mooie: “I believe that gay marriage should be only between a man and a woman.”
Hier kun je ‘m horen.