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
Dumbest Quote of the Year
“I
think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s
mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a
transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.”
– National Public Radio and ABC News reporter Nina Totenberg reacting to Senator Jesse Helms’ claim that the government spends too much on AIDS research, July 8 Inside Washington.
Runners-up:
“A passionate and out-of-character defense of animals produced our Moment of the Week this week. It was Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives. In the midst of a week that saw close to $10 billion in proposed cuts, House Speaker Newt Gingrich suddenly rose in defense of a comparatively tiny $800,000. But the cause was apparently dear to him, preserving endangered animals....Humans, however, didn’t fare that well: funding for the National Endowment for the Arts was voted out of existence in two years.”
– NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, July 15.
“This
comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act
and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now
forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically
feasible option for a lot of people?”
– Bryant Gumbel to Natural
Resources Defense Council lawyer Erik Olson promoting a new NRDC study
on the safety of drinking water, June 1 Today.
“The noises coming
from [Rep. Sonny] Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of
House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s ‘Contract with America’ signal a radical
shift in Congress’s attitude toward environmental issues – a shift that
may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls, and even the
human species.”
– Time reporter Dick Thompson in a February 27 story
headlined “Congressional Chain-Saw Massacre: If Speaker Newt Gingrich
gets his way, the laws protecting air, water and wildlife may be
endangered.”
“Still ahead, the latest round of bloodshed and
violence at abortion clinics. The anti-abortion movement has been
creeping to the edge of bloody fanaticism for a decade.”
– Jane Pauley, January 3 Dateline NBC.
