Q: What is the most important event in our nation's history?
A: "Pearl harbor which occured on December 7 of 1941, is the most important even in our nation's history because... [long pause] Because it ended the great depression and it forced them into World War 2... and... [Dumb look]"

Nadine Tanega - Miss Hawaii at Miss World American 1992
"We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home."

Clarisse competing for Miss Manila 2005 - 2 minutes into the video.
A: "I think its not because a beauty pageant shows that you have beauty and you have brains. It doesnt mean that if like discriminaing or something, it's more along you socializing with other girls, whether they have beauty... so you have a better community."

Jeanie Anderson - Miss Philippines Pageant
Q: "If you were given the chance to be beautiful and smart, or very smart and not beautiful, which would you choose?"
Jeanie: Dumb look.
Q: "Beautiful but not too smart. Basically, not pretty but not too smart. But very smart, but not too beautiful. Which would you rather be? Beautiful or smart?"
Jeanie: Giggling. "Well, um.. quiet please. Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful,um because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um alot of things... alot of things from the experience... you can learn from alot of things being smart."

Caitlin Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina - In the 2007 Miss Teen USA
Q: "Recent polls have shown that 1/5 of Americans can't locate the US on a map. Why do you think that is?"
A: "I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation dont have maps and that I believe our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq, and everywhere, such as, and I believe that they should our education over here in the US, should help the US, or should help South Africa and help the Iraq and the Asian countries so that we will be able to build out our future for us"

Miss Serbia in the Miss Universe 2003, at 5:30
Q: "If you could be eitehr water or fire which would you be and why?"
A: "Well I'm a human being and I don't know how is it to be a fire or a water and for that reason, I really don't have an answer to that question. I'm a human being, a girl that has emotion that fire and water doesn't have"