"You can always count on the American people to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities."

a. Abba Eban In the past few months alone so many American politicians have misattributed this quote to Churchill that we can't count them. A variant -- "Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources" -- was first said in March 1967 by Israeli diplomat Abba Eban.
b. Winston Churchill
c. Mark Twain
d. H.L. Mencken

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

a. Albert Einstein
b. Rita Mae Brown in Sudden Death
D. Ben Franklin
d. Narcotics Anonymous Also heard many times in Congress these past few months, this one is most often attributed to Einstein. Some say it dates to Confucius, but it first appears in print in the original 1981 draft of the Narcotics Anonymous basic text.

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

a. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire when she coined the phrase in an academic paper in the journal American Quarterly. It was later the title of her 1976 book.
b. Mae West
c. Marilyn Monroe
d. Hillary Clinton

"God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy."

a. Ben Franklin
b. Homer Simpson
c. Beverage World You're almost right if you guessed Franklin, who once wrote: "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!" But alas it was the 1996 magazine Beverage World that subbed beer for wine.
d. John "Bluto" Blutarsky

"That government is best which governs least."

a. Ronald Reagan
b. Ron Paul
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Henry David Thoreau Jefferson is often credited with this popular conservative expression, but it appears in the first paragraph of Henry David Thoreau's 1849 "Civil Disobedience".

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light not our Darkness, that most frightens us."

a. Nelson Mandela
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Albus Dumbledore
d. Marianne Williamson Widely attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address, the quote comes from Marianne Williamson's 1992 book A Return to Love. Williamson was the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a grassroots campaign that supports a federal Department of Peace.

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

a. Mark Twain In Season 6, Episode 3 of Criminal Minds, the fictional character David Rossi -- a special agent at the Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico -- correctly references this famous Mark Twain quote.
b. Ben Franklin
c. Yogi Berra
d. David Rossi