The Best of Notable Quotables; December 25, 1989
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 25, 1989
- Silliest Analysis
- Good News Is Bad News
- The Economy
- Blame America First
- Media Hero
- Foreign Affairs
- Joe Isuzu
- Damn Conservatives
- American Politics
- Most Honest Confession
- Real Ronald Reagan
- Real Jimmy Carter
- No Agenda Here
- Walter Mondale Award
- Most Insane Comparison
- Quote of the Year
Joe Isuzu Award
"Communism
got to be a terrible word here in the United States, but our attitude
toward it may have been unfair. Communism got in with a bad crowd when
it was young and never had a fair chance...
The Communist ideas of
creating a society in which everyone does his best for the good of
everyone is appealing and fundamentally a more uplifting idea than
capitalism. Communism’s only real weakness seems to be that it doesn’t
work."
-- 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney in The New York Times, June
26.
Runners-Up:
"Indeed, most observers and politicians
here agree that the election is just one part of a larger process
involving squaring the revolutionary side of Nicaraguan society -- the
meshing of the Sandinista party with the government and Army after 10
years of rule -- with a trend toward establishing a liberal democracy.
That is a long process fraught with contradictions that an opposition
victory could force to a conclusion too soon."
-- Reporter J.D. Gannon
in The Christian Science Monitor, October 26.
"The incident is
now known throughout the country as ‘Bloody Sunday’ and marked a
desperate moment in the leadership’s attempts to win public confidence
in its movement for democratic change."
-- Washington Post reporter
David Remnick on Soviet troops killing peaceful protesters in Georgia,
October 12.
"Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today
it is available to every Cuban and it is free. Some of Cuba’s health
care is world class. In heart disease, for example, in brain surgery.
Health and education are the revolution’s great success stories."
-- ABC’s Peter Jennings on the April 3 World News Tonight.
