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
Dumbest Quote of the Year
“Around
the global village, women cheered and grown men wept. At his press
conference, [Gold medal-winning speed skater Dan] Jansen paused to take a
call from the President, the man who’s made America safe again for
tears.”
– Newsweek Senior Writer David A. Kaplan, February 28 news story.
Runners-up:
“To watch this President connect with
people emotionally is an awesome thing. It’s a raw, needy, palpable,
electrifying thing that happens. There was no smile. It’s as if he’s
soaking up the people like he’s soaking up the sun, with the warmth
pouring deep and direct into his political soul and recharging him,
refilling him somehow once again with his own humanity and some sense of
his role in the destiny of his country. Then, the hunger slaked, the
great beast of Need fed once again, it seemed you could almost see the
gratitude pouring off his brow like sweat as he made his way.”
–
Washington Post reporter Phil McCombs, March 30 Style section story on
Clinton vacationing in California.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton is as
pious as she is political. Methodism, for her, is not just a church but
an extended family of faith that defines her horizons....If the Kennedy
era was Camelot and the Reagan White House a ranchero on the Potomac,
the Clinton presidency – in the figure of its formidable First Lady – is
Washington’s Methodist Moment.”
– Newsweek reporter Kenneth L.
Woodward, October 31 story.
“I think liberalism lives – the
notion that we don’t have to stay where we are as a society, we have
promises to keep, and it is liberalism, whether people like it or not,
which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did
conservatism ever accomplish for our country? It was people who wanted
to change things for the better.”
– Charles Kuralt talking with Morley
Safer on the CBS special, One for the Road with Charles Kuralt, May 4.
“I
suspect that as long as the peccadilloes remain within reason, the
American people will have great tolerance for a President who has not
only seen the sunshine of Oxford, but also the dusky Dunkin’ Donuts of
the soul.”
– Newsweek Senior Writer Joe Klein, January 3 issue.
– Andrew Gabron, Mark Honig, Steve Kaminski, Gesele Rey, Clay Waters; Media Analysts