The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
- Until Every Child Is Dead
- Damn Conservatives
- Republicans Make Us Sick
- Afraid of the Competition
- Purveyors of Hate and Division
- Mathematical Disabilities
- Embodiment of All Evil
- Good Morning Morons
- I Still Hate Reagan
- Media Hero
- Not Guilty of Bias
- Mean-Spirited Republican
- It's OK for Us to Hate Them
- Eleanor Clift Award
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Which Way Is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1995 Award Judges
I Still Hate Reagan Award
Thomas
Friedman, New York Times reporter and columnist: “Governor, I’m kind of
a foreign policy wonk, and it scares the bejesus out of me to have
someone as President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief, and
finger on the nuclear button who is such an outsider to Washington and
American foreign policy.”
Lamar Alexander: “Well, did Ronald Reagan scare you, Tom?”
Friedman: “He sure did.”
Alexander:
“Did he? He didn’t scare me. I thought he was the best national defense
and Commander-in-Chief and foreign policy President we’ve had since
Eisenhower.”
Friedman: “Ask 245 Marines in Beirut about that.”
– Exchange on CBS’s Face the Nation, March 5.
Runner-up:
“How
much did Reagan fool the American people and how much did he simply
play into their wishes? Were they misled by the nature of his
campaigning or were they led into ways they wanted to go? Was Reagan
sort of a modern Pied Piper? It’s my instinct about it that he very
successfully delayed the apprehension of reality by this country for
about a decade. He made people feel that things were better than they
were, that the external dangers were greater than they were.”
– PBS
anchor Robert MacNeil in the 1995 Liz Cunningham book Talking Politics:
Choosing the President in the Television Age.
