Wired magazine's list of Foot In Mouth award winners for 2006 includes this classic from Senator Ted Stevens, who at the time was chairman of the Commerce Committee, which oversees regulation of the internet, about which he is positively clueless:
"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."