The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
- Iron Curtain Award
- Tax Fairness Award
- Gas Lines Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Ecological Panic
- Good Morning Morons
- Most Honest Confession
- Gorebasm Award
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Tax Advocacy Award
- Media Hero Abroad
- Media Hero At Home
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Reagan Legacy
- Domestic Affairs
- Joe Isuzu Award
- Gennadi Gerasimov
- Foreign Affairs
- Silliest Analysis
- Quote of the Year
Media Hero Award/Abroad
"Ortega’s
defeat is something American Presidents had sought for ten years. Yet
Ortega’s statesman-like acceptance of the voters’ decision has prompted
some in Washington to call the Sandinista leader a champion of
democracy."
-- Today co-host Deborah Norville before interview with
Daniel Ortega, April 24.
"We talked to one observer who told us
that if he were awarding the Nobel Prize, he would nominate Mikhail
Gorbachev and Daniel Ortega. What do you think of that?"
-- one of
Norville’s questions to Ortega.
Runners-Up:
"Fidel
[Castro] touched this young machine adjuster, and the man enjoyed a mild
ecstasy. I know the feeling."
-- Institute for Policy Studies Senior
Fellow Saul Landau in his pro-Castro documentary The Uncompromising
Revolution, aired along with Nobody Listened on PBS August 8.
"Mandela
leaves as a principled man, with all but the dullards understanding why
he would embrace the Palestinians, whose children are being killed and
family homes bulldozed in Israel just as black families’ are in
Soweto....Moreover, if Mandela is a terrorist -- as conservatives have
called him -- he would fit right in with U.S. patriots such as George
Washington, Patrick Henry, Nat Turner, and Harriet Tubman. If it had not
been for those terrorists, what would we have to wave our flags about
on the Fourth of July?"
-- USA Today Inquiry Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 29.
