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
Rodney Dangerfield Award (for Demanding Bill Clinton Get Respect)
“Well,
it may seem the sheerest act of heresy to say so, but far from being
pathologically dishonest, Bill Clinton has been more faithful to his
word than any other chief executive in recent memory. He may have
skirted the truth about the draft, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and so
on. But Clinton has kept his contract with voters. On policy issues, he
has done almost exactly what he said he was going to do, despite
setbacks and enormous obstacles. And by so doing, he has made himself an
excellent President.”
– Former Newsweek reporter Jacob Weisberg in New York magazine, September 5 issue.
Runners-up:
“In less than
two years, Bill Clinton had already achieved more domestically than John
F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush combined.
Although Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan often had their way with
Congress, Congressional Quarterly says it’s Clinton who has had the most
legislative success of any President since Lyndon Johnson. Inhale that
one....The standard for measuring results domestically should not be the
coherence of the process but how actual lives are touched and changed.
By that standard, he’s doing well.”
– Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan
Alter, October 3 magazine story.
Host Tina Gulland: “Are we
agreed generally that it was a plus week for Clinton in the sense that
he was viewed as presidential and in charge of foreign policy?”
ABC
and National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg: “He was there in the
middle of the desert. I mean, it was biblical!”
– Exchange on Inside
Washington about Clinton’s Middle East trip, October 29.
“Around
the country, President Clinton is routinely trashed by conservative
talk-show hosts and Republican candidates for being the most liberal
President in modern times...But based on the measures that Mr. Clinton
succeeded in getting through Congress in his first two years, he looks
like Mainstream Bill....The Clinton record is surprisingly pro-business
and centrist.”
– Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum, October 7.
