# Foot in mouth award!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/foot-in-mouth-award/96338>\
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**Created:** [December 8, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/foot-in-mouth-award/96338 "2003-12-08T01:26:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![RussianBeer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/russianbeer/32/152_2.png) [@RussianBeer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RussianBeer)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/foot-in-mouth-award/96338/1 "2003-12-08T01:26:11Z")

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😃

GO U-S-A!!!

> Rumsfeld, renowned for his uncompromising tough talking, received the prize for the most baffling comment by a public figure.

“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,” Rumsfeld told a press briefing.

“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.”

[http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3782-2878610,00.html](http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3782-2878610,00.html)