Handel

This applies:

"My Lord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wished to make them better."

George Frideric Handel

(Though to be fair, I am entertained by many things about my own parents, so maybe that just comes with the territory). 

Bushisms

Bushism of the Day
By Jacob Weisberg
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008, at 5:27 PM ET

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008