The Best of Notable Quotables; December 20, 1993
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 20, 1993
- I am Woman
- Courage to Change
- Greed is GoodAward
- Damn Conservatives
- Good Morning Morons
- I Still Hate Reagan
- What's the Frequency Award
- White Men Can Go Jump
- Henry Luce Would Roll Over
- Media Hero
- Enhanced Contribution and Investment
- Bernie Sanders Socialist
- Silliest Analysis Award
- Dr. Kevorkian Award
- Which Way is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1993 Award Judges
The “Enhanced Contribution” and “Investment” Award
“Forty-five
minutes into budget director Leon Panetta’s briefing on the economy,
it was clear that something was missing. After 12 years of Ronald
Reagan’s voodoo economics and George Bush’s low-fat, decaffeinated,
nondairy, sodium-free imitation voodoo economics, there was suddenly no
ideology in the federal budget. Panetta talked like a cheerful,
no-nonsense accountant trying to balance the books the hard way –
honestly.”
– New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Lars-Erik Nelson, March 15 column.
Runners-up:
“Doesn’t Clinton deserve
some credit here for beginning to tackle the problem of getting people
to pay taxes? I mean, for 12 years in this country, it’s become
patriotic not to pay taxes, to avoid paying taxes. And Clinton at least
is trying to turn that around. Why isn’t he getting more credit for
that?”
– Washington Post columnist and chief foreign correspondent Jim
Hoagland on Washington Week in Review, June 18.
“Clinton has at
least faced the facts squarely, which is more than his immediate
predecessors ever did, and he is forthrightly taking the heat for the
tax increases that serious deficit reduction demands. Simply to move
the debate from whether the deficit should be tackled to how the red
ink should be stemmed is the definition of courage in modern American
politics. So give him that....Clinton’s economic plan deserves to be
known as a new New Deal, and Congress should pass it quickly.”
– Time
Chief Political Correspondent Michael Kramer, March 1 issue.
“It’s
one for one [tax hikes to spending cuts] and it’s gutsier than any
Republican President has done in 12 years of feel-goodism. This is
going to be politically courageous and you’re going to hear a lot of
screaming.”
– Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group,
February 13.
“I think regardless of what you think of the
specifics of the program, the President deserved great, great credit
for having the courage to come forward with a plan to deal responsibly
with the deficit. Yes, there are flaws....But I think that Bill Clinton
really set the nation on a new course last night in trying to deal
responsibly with our problems, and make the tough choices.”
– NBC’s
Lisa Myers on Today, February 18.
