The Best of Notable Quotables; December 25, 1989

Vol. Two; No. 26

Award For The Most Honest Confession



"I read Mother Jones carefully and look forward to every issue. After all, stories that started out in Mother Jones have wound up on 60 Minutes."

-- CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace as quoted in subscription letter for the far-left magazine.

Runner-Up:

"I predict historians are going to be totally baffled by how the American people fell in love with this man [Ronald Reagan]  and followed him the way we did."

-- CBS News White House reporter Lesley Stahl on NBC’s Later with Bob Costas, January 11.