The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992

Damn Those Conservatives Award

“On the road I travel to the mall in Wheaton, Md., two white men severely beat two black women Tuesday. One was doused with lighter fluid, and her attacker tried to set her afire. Both men cursed the women for being black. I couldn’t help but shudder: That could have been me. This heinous act happened only hours after Pat Buchanan voters gave him 30 percent of the vote in the Maryland GOP presidential primary.”

– USA Today columnist and former “Inquiry” page Editor Barbara Reynolds, March 6.

Runners-up:

“[Bush] is about to make matters worse by hauling out Ronald Reagan at the Republican convention. Reagan has become a symbol of what went wrong in the ‘80s. It’s like bringing the Music Man back to River City, a big mistake.”

– Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, August 1.

Anchor Lisa McRee: “What’s the difference between your message and the message of David Duke?....In terms of fairness, you’ve said things that have angered Jews, that have angered gays, that have angered women, that have angered minorities. In fact, just the other day, you said that there are certain groups that assimilate more easily into what is basically an American society which is of European derivation. As a woman, if I was a minority, why shouldn’t I be scared of you?”
Buchanan: “....No nation of God’s Earth has done more to fight discrimination, or has made greater progress in doing so, than the United States of America.”
McRee: “But you want to turn that around!”

– Exchange on ABC’s World News Now, February 26.

“For three decades, it was an aggressive guardian of individual liberties. But the Supreme Court's new conservative majority is demolishing that legacy, beating an ideological retreat from its activist role in deciding critical social issues.”

– From Newsweek's table of contents, July 6 issue.

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