"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
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This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing.
-- Woodrow Wilson, On hearing a speech by German foreign minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau at negotiations for what became the Treaty of Versailles 1919