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
I Still Hate Ronald Reagan Award
“I
don’t shield my politics in this book, as I do in much of my
journalism, as I’ve been disciplined to do. The Reagan years oppressed
me because of the callousness and the greed and the hard-hearted
attitude toward people who have very little in this society, so all of
that came together at around age 40 for me.”
– New York Times editorial page editor and former Washington bureau chief Howell Raines in an interview discussing his book Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis, on the PBS talk show Charlie Rose, November 17.
Runners-up:
“Reagan
got his taxation program through, which was to cut taxes to the bone.
Mr. Clinton’s going to get his program through, which is to raise taxes
to the sky. And let us hope, Cokie, that it doesn’t turn out to have a
similar fate. What Reagan did was destroy the economy!”
– Sam
Donaldson on This Week with David Brinkley, March 28.
“For
members of Ronald Reagan’s Administration, the metamorphosis has been
traumatic. Just a few years ago, they commanded Washington. They were
privy and powerful, setting the country’s intellectual and moral
compass. Their mission was called noble. But after they left, their
crusade was rejected, their ideology repudiated much as the Russians
have repudiated communism. They were accused of making greed into the
country’s unofficial religion. Their fall was far and fast and the
crash was painful.”
– Opening of New York Times reporter Lindsey
Gruson’s news story on conference of former Reagan officials, April 25.
