Why did the chicken cross the road?

Aristotle:

To actualize its potential.

Buddha:

If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

George W Bush:

We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either against us or for us. There is no middle ground regarding this chicken.

Salvador Dali:

The Fish.

Darwin:

It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Albert Einstein:

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Johann von Goethe:

The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway:

To die. In the rain.

Hippocrates:

Because of an excess of black bile and a deficiency of choleric humour.

Saddam Hussein:

This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Martin Luther King Jr:

I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Karl Marx:

It was a historical inevitability.

Jack Nicholson:

'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Plato:

For the greater good.

Ronald Reagan:

I forget.

The Sphinx:

You tell me.

Joseph Stalin:

I don't care. Just catch it. I need its eggs to make my omelette.

Mark Twain:

The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Malcolm X:

It was coming home to roost.