(quotes in order of occurrence)
- "that's why you go to law school"
- after watching a clip of Tom Delay on "Dancing with the Stars":
"you have just witnessed the beginning of the decline of the west"
- "I can define AAPR this way: the folks who want to screw you [young people]...I'm a member...we're evil"
- "Republicans endorsing Scozzafava is like endorsing whiskey at a Christian Science meeting"
- in reference to a speaker at Scripps who argued Obama was not born in the US:
"there's no rule that says every person who speaks at the Claremont Colleges has to be same"
- after the in-class computer crashed:
"this computer is illustrating the problems with touch-screen voting"
- "just about everything in the 1970s was bad. [pause] Except for the movies...the movies were great"
- "two things I believe for sure: 1) dual majors don't help your job prospects, 2) Oswald acted alone"
- "George Washington knew that if he kept the Revolutionary War going, King George would eventually say [said in an English accent] 'aw, screw it.' [pause] And that's how we won our independence."
- As a demonstration of how "unexpectedness" is a part of good speeches:
[Pitney ducks behind a podium, and then jumps up] "Boo!"...(followed by "see? that was the only part of today's class that you'll remember")
Who else has memorable moments/quotes to share?
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