The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
- Rodney King Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Festival of Hate
- Clinton Camelot
- I am Woman
- Henry Luce Award
- Willie Horton Award
- Silliest Analysis
- Ross Perot Award
- Real Reagan Legacy
- James Carville Award
- Iron Curtain Award
- Happy Talk Award
- Media Hero Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Quote of the Year
- 1992 Award Judges
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
A Gulag Breeds Rage, Yes, but Also Serenity
– New York Times story on last Soviet poitical prisoners being released, February 12
Runners-up:
Connie Chung: “In formerly communist Bulgaria, the cost of freedom has been virtual economic disaster. Peter Van Sant reports.”
Van
Sant: “Thousands of socialists rally in Sofia, Bulgaria. It may look
like a rally from communism’s glory years, but it’s not. It’s an
expression of frustration, a longing for the bad old days when liberty
was scarce but at least everybody had a job.”
– CBS Evening News,
December 29, 1991.
“In the old Soviet Union, you never saw faces
like these. The poor, the homeless, and the desperation of the Russian
winter. Their numbers are growing. Tonight – Is this what democracy
does? A look at the Russia you haven’t seen before....The people of
Russia are learning this winter that the price of freedom can be
painfully high.”
– Barbara Walters opening Nightline, January 14.
“The
economic and political turmoil that has swept the former Communist East
Bloc has hit women the hardest. There’s been a strong backlash against
the idea of women’s equality... Under the communists, women in the
workplace were glorified. And if they needed time off to give birth and
raise families, they got it at full pay.”
– ABC reporter Jerry King,
April 6 World News Tonight.
