We’ve just finished an election season for the books, filled with candidates who were more well-known for odd sound bites than their politics themselves. Between Ben Carson, Gary Johnson, and President-Elect Donald Trump, this list could fill a book. However, Since Trump and Carson have never (or not yet) held a political office, I’m going to have to leave them off this list.  These are 10 of the strangest things I could find that elected officials have uttered.

1. “I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.” -Mitt Romney, October 16th, 2012

When talking about how he made a conscious effort to hire women during his time as Massachusetts governor, 2012 Republican presidential Candidate Mitt Romney spat out this jumble of words. It’s somewhat harmless, as he intended to show how enthusiastic he was about hiring women. However, the issue was that he made hiring women sound like a chore. It was not the cause of his loss, but it may have been a factor. The phrase just hits the ear wrong.

2.  “It’s in the interest of — uhh — uhh, long-term peace in the world that we — uhh — work for a free and secure and peaceful Iraq. A peeance, freeance secure Iraq in the midst of the Middle East will have enormous historical impact.” -President George W. Bush, October 27th, 2003

Peeance Freeance. What? Those aren’t even words. See it here!

3. “Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.” -Vice President Dan Quayle

So many Quayle quotes to chose from. Most famously, the time he misspelled ‘potato’ while judging a spelling bee. A boy wrote ‘potato’ on the board, and the Vice President insisted that he add an ‘e’ on the end. But, this quote is just stranger. Don’t believe me? Check it out here. One word that does end in ‘e’ is ‘gaffe’.

4. “So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?” -Rep. John Shimkus (R-Illinois)

Man, Someone needs to find his seventh grade science teacher and take away their teaching degree.

5.  “He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”-(Who else but) Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), June 3rd, 2011

No, this is not from Tina Fey pretending to be Palin on Saturday Night Live. (Common misconception, Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house,” Tina Fey did on SNL) I think she was talking about Paul Revere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she was actually talking about the space program.

6.  “We had no domestic attacks under Bush—we’ve had one under Obama.” -Rudy Giuliani, 2010

For those of you who don’t know, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City from 1994 until 2001. Now think hard about this: is there anything significant that happened in New York City while George Bush was president? Well the Mets and the Yankees played each other in the world series in 2000, oh, and only the most devastating terrorist attacks in all of world history! Giuliani is remembered mostly for heroically leading New York out of the dark. He was named TIME Magazine’s person of the year in 2001 because of it! There have been awful domestic attacks under Obama, but none of them compare to 9/11. He tried so hard to take a shot at Obama, he wrote off his single greatest accomplishment. Yes, he said “domestic” attack, and there has been debate on whether or not 9/11 was a domestic or foreign attack. But for him to blatantly ignore the single worst event in American history makes him look ignorant, cruel, and stupid. It’s like Bill Belicheck saying after the 2007 super bowl that he’s incredibly proud of his team for going undefeated that season.

7.  “But I’m trying to figure out how we get them to have ‘Pokemon-Go-to the polls.”-Hillary Clinton, July 14th, 2016

Hillary Clinton gave this cringeworthy statement during a speech in July, back when Pokemon Go! was the national pastime. It was a desperate effort by her to try and appeal to younger voters. This backfired, as the only place she’ll be Go!ing is back to Chappaqua.

8.  “Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” -Vice President Joe Biden, October 15th, 2008

Oh Joe, if you run in 2020, you better appoint a great Secretary of Spelling and Counting.

9. “But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. … I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forebearers who worked tirelessly — men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.” – Rep.Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), January, 2011

Many of the founding fathers owned slaves, Michele. In fact, lots of them worked very hard to ensure that slavery would remain legal. To name a few, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. All of the founding fathers were dead by the time the Abolitionist movement started, but thanks for playing Michele!

10.  “I think gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.” -Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-California), 2003

Looks like ‘the Governator’ malfunctioned during this press conference.