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
Gorbasm Award*
"Gorbachev
has probably moved more quickly than any person in the history of the
world. Moving faster than Jesus Christ did. America is always lagging
six months behind...I think we can get by easily with a $75 billion
military budget. Those bombers and all of this stuff is an absolute
waste of money and a joke."
-- Ted Turner, "TV chieftain with an
outspoken conscience," celebrated in the January 22 Time.
Runners-Up:
"The
supreme leader of an atheistic state was baptized as a child. Now, in a
sense, Gorbachev means to accomplish the salvation of an entire society
that has gone astray...Much more than that, Gorbachev is a visionary
enacting a range of complex and sometimes contradictory roles. He is
simultaneously the communist Pope and the Soviet Martin Luther, the
apparatchik as Magellan and McLuhan. The Man of the Decade is a global
navigator."
-- Time Senior Writer Lance Morrow, January 1.
"He
has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes...There’s a kind of
laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not
come across as something peaceful within himself. It’s the look of a
kind of human volcano, or he’d probably like to describe it as ahuman
nuclear energy plant."
-- Dan Rather on Mikhail Gorbachev, quoted in the
May 10 Seattle Times.
* With thanks to Rush Limbaugh
