The Best of Notable Quotables; December 19, 1994

Vol. Seven; No. 26


Good Morning Morons Award



“You’re aligned to a party which owes many of its victories to the so-called religious right and other conservative extremists who are historically insensitive to minority concerns. That doesn’t bother you?”

Today co-host Bryant Gumbel to black Republican U. S. Rep.-elect J.C. Watts, November 9.


Runners-up:


“In the wake of the somewhat new hostilities bred in the Reagan ‘80s, how do you assess the state of race relations in this country today?”

– Gumbel to National Urban League President Hugh Price, July 28.

“Let’s not debate his presidency, but his passing. As opposed to a man like Reagan, Nixon is, was highly regarded as a genuine statesman with a first-class mind.”

Today co-host Bryant Gumbel, April 26.

“What is it, do you think, government can do about this? If we declare that obesity is a disease, would that make any difference at all?”

CBS This Morning co-host Paula Zahn on a study marking one-third of Americans as obese, July 18.