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 Gordon Gekko Greed is Good Award (for ‘80s Hate)
“In
the plague years of the 1980s – that low decade of denial,
indifference, hostility, opportunism, and idiocy – government fiddled,
medicine diddled, and the media were silent or hysterical. A
gerontocratic Ronald Reagan took this [AIDS] plague less seriously than
Gerald Ford had taken swine flu. After all, he didn’t need the ghettos
and he didn’t want the gays.”
– CBS Sunday Morning TV critic John Leonard, Sept. 5.
Runners-up:
"Florio will win substantially.
Whitman’s offer of a 30 percent tax cut, she lost all credibility. Last
year’s hustle doesn’t work. Supply-side economics is dead.”
–
Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, Oct.16 McLaughlin Group.
“In the
greedy excesses of the Reagan years, the mean income of the average
physician nearly doubled, from $88,000 to $170,000. Was that
warranted?”
– Bryant Gumbel to Dr. Richard Corlin of the American
Medical Association, March 31 Today.
“[Christie] Whitman tried a
Ronald Reagan rerun and proposed a 30 percent tax cut. The lost
revenue could be made up by cost-saving devices, such as no longer
giving free Adidas sneakers to prison inmates. A decade after Reagan,
New Jersey’s voters aren’t buying government by apocryphal anecdote.”
–
Eleanor Clift before Whitman won New Jersey gubernatorial race,
October 25 Newsweek story.
