Caitlin Upton Quotes

“Aimee Teegarden: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U. S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Caitlin Upton: I personally believe that U. S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., uh, or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.”

Caitlin Upton

2007 Miss Teen USA Pageant, 24 August 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww The Yale Book of Quotations designated the response the second most memorable quote of 2007 http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/19/us-quotes-odd-idUSN1959512020071219 Upton won the 2007 World Stupidity Award for the Stupidest Statement of the Year https://web.archive.org/web/20090106013000/http://www.stupidityawards.com/Stupidest_Statement_of_the_Year.html