Herbert Hoover

One of the darkest periods of our country's history was the great depression. Much of the blame is usually placed with President Herbert Hoover, who was in office when the stock market crashed in 1929. Hoover secured his name on the American landscape with the Hoover Dam. Hoover originally connected with the electorate by portraying himself as a man of the people, but his impressive bungling of the economy and basic English revealed to the people that he was not in fact one of them, but really just a dumb rich guy. Here are two of his more famous quotes, in your Idiotic Quotes of the Day, "I know that it is hard for you to put food on your family," and, even more profound, "Rarely is the question asked, "Is our children learning?"