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
Honey, I Shrunk the Democratic Party Award (for Hillary Rodham Worshipping)
“Hillary
Clinton, like Eleanor Roosevelt, had already done a great service.
Unlike Barbara Bush, she got involved. She has taken stands. She has
been a leader. It’s too bad, of course, that there is not health care
legislation this year, but that is Congress’ failure, not Hillary
Clinton’s. Her role has been a success. She awakened the nation. She
educated the nation. She enlightened the nation....For when a nation
gets two leaders for the price of one – a Franklin and Eleanor, a Bill
and Hillary – it can tackle twice as many problems, find twice as many
solutions, make twice as much progress.”
– Former NBC News President
Michael Gartner in his USA Today column, September 27.
Runners-up:
“Bill
Clinton evoked sympathy and understanding by acknowledging marital
problems on the famous 60 Minutes interview. His wife is too dignified
for confessionals, but she could benefit from admitting that she, too,
has occasionally yielded to temptation and made the wrong choices. The
public might even be tickled to discover that the prim and preachy First
Lady has a gambler’s streak. Hillary’s brief fling in commodities was
possibly reckless, but it shows a glimmering of a more credible, if more
flawed, human being.”
– Eleanor Clift and Mark Miller, April 11
Newsweek story.
“There is a lot of gleeful sexist reaction to her
difficulties, a lot of piling on, a lot of men who never stood up for a
woman’s right to do anything who would be completely content to have
her whispering sweet nothings to him in bed and manipulating him that
way, and are simply terrorized by the thought that she may have real,
formal, out-front power.”
– NPR’s Nina Totenberg on Inside Washington,
March 12.
“As much as we try to think otherwise, when you’re
covering someone like yourself, and your position in life is insecure,
she’s your mascot. Something in you roots for her. You're rooting for
your team. I try to get that bias out, but for many of us it’s there.”
–
Time’s Margaret Carlson quoted in March 7 Washington Post.