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
Good Morning Morons Award
“Harry,
I don’t want to take away from the severity of what you two were
talking about, but please pass along to Dan he looks great in his jeans
today.”
– CBS This Morning co-host Paula Zahn to Dan Rather as he reported live from Wilmington, NC as Hurricane Emily approached, August 30.
Runners-up:
“You claim the debt problem actually began
with Lyndon Johnson...But he was fighting the Vietnam War and that was
most of his problem?...So he had a good reason.”
“...I’m not sure
there’s a grade low enough for this next one: Ronald Reagan. He spoke
regularly of balancing the budget, but he broke the bank. In return for
his own personal popularity he spent eight years in office and ran up
$1.34 trillion in deficits....It’s early yet, but for at least trying
to address the deficit in a more serious fashion than anybody in 12
years, what kind of early marks do you give Bill Clinton?”
– Bryant
Gumbel’s interview with Bankruptcy 1995 co-author Dr. Gerald Swanson,
March 17 Today.
“The Reagan Administration used to boast they
created a lot of jobs. Most of those were menial jobs that were quickly
dissipated by a quadrupled budget deficit. How do you suggest we make
more high-paying jobs?”
– Bryant Gumbel to economist Irwin Kellner,
June 2 Today.
“Is the problem that the laws are ineffective, or
the laws can’t be carried out because the bureau, like every other, is
understaffed, underfunded, a victim of the Reagan cutbacks?”
– Bryant
Gumbel to Tom Brokaw about the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
March 26 Today.
“As we have seen in the past, during Reagan-Bush
administration days, when huge slashes went through, when entire
programs were dismantled, and what ends up being left sometimes in its
wake is this sort of vacuum and chaos and even more problems than were
there to begin with.”
– CBS This Morning co-host Harry Smith responding
to Pat Buchanan’s criticism of the “Reinventing Government” report,
September 8.
