The Best of Notable Quotables; December 19, 1994
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 19, 1994
- Sore Losers Award
- Honey, I shrunk the Democratic Party
- Oliver Stone
- I Still Hate Reagan
- Apolitical Observers
- Media Hero
- Flatliner Award
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Clinton Enemies
- You're No Anita Hill
- No Money Down
- Good Morning Morons
- Damn Conservatives
- Iron Curtain Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1994 Award Judges
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
“Back then
[when it received Soviet subsidies], the island may have been a thorn
in Washington’s side but it was a beacon of success for much of Latin
America and the Third World. For decades, Cuba’s health care and
education systems were touted as great achievements of the
revolution....Some say the trade ban has never given Cuba a chance to
see whether or not Castro’s socialism might work.”
– CBS reporter Giselle Fernandez, September 4 Evening News.
Runners-up:
“Life
has become so much worse for so many Russians under democratic pseudo
capitalism... the first market reforms and the erosion of state
authority have fostered a brutal cowboy capitalism. It is manifest in
the emergence of a lavish lifestyle among a flamboyant and vulgar new
class of businessmen, made up mostly of speculators, traders and
outright criminals, all of whom are stealing the country blind...No
freedom from fear and no freedom from want: Small wonder many Russians
feel nostalgic for the days when there was bread and law and order.”
–
U.S. News Editor-in-Chief Mortimer Zuckerman, March 7.
“For more
than 70 years, Russia dreamed the Soviet dream: the dream of a classless
society, the dream of a workers’ paradise. The classless state is now a
state with a growing population of haves and an exploding population of
have-nots. For many, the workers’ paradise has become a homeless hell.”
– ABC’s Morton Dean, January 14 Good Morning America.
