Too easy, and I wish it weren't so

"People don't need to worry about security."
--President Bush, Feb. 23, 2006

See also:

"I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
--President Bush, Sept. 1, 2005

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that those people could take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."
--National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, May 16, 2002 (now Secretary of State)

Not to be confused with:

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
--President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003

"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
--Vice President Cheney, June 20, 2005