In the annals of stupid comments by politicians, I’ve often thought this was at or near the top.
“It is conceivable,” George Pataki, declared in 2000 when he signed a hate-crimes bill into law, “that if this law had been in effect one hundred years ago, the greatest hate crime of all, the Holocaust, could have been avoided.”
I honestly don’t know if that can be beaten. You really have to let the stupidity of it wash over you to fully appreciate it.