The Best of Notable Quotables; December 28, 1998

Good Morning Morons Award (for Foolishness in the Morning)

Women who’ve been polled seem to put it behind them as well, and are willing to move on and forget about it. Is that because Bill Clinton’s been such a great President whom they elected in great part, or is there something I want to say almost sexy about a man who can get away with things over and over again?”

– Good Morning America co-host Lisa McRee to Deborah Tannen, August 18. [73 points]

Runners-up:

Katie Couric: “Getting back to kids and guns, if you will indulge me for a moment. You cannot think of any other position the NRA could take in terms of trying to decrease the number of school shootings? You feel like this is not your bailiwick, this is not your problem?”
Charlton Heston: “Not at all. As I told you the NRA spends more money, more time...”
Couric, cutting him off: “Other than education.”
Heston: “Well what would you suppose? What would you suggest?”
Couric: “I don’t know, perhaps greater restrictions.”

– Exchange on the June 8 Today. [47]
   
“You and I spoke right at the beginning of this second term. Now, with two years left, is it something you look forward to? Do you get out there and say ‘I want to keep going out, I want to meet people, I have more stuff I want to do,’ or do you look and go ‘Oh, my God, two more years!’?”
“There’s so much speculation now about what you’re going to do. What Hillary Clinton’s life is going to be after the presidency. Do you find that takes away from what you’re going to do, or do you just like slough it off and pay no attention?”
“I’ve  talked to several people and they came up and said ‘She’s so different than I thought she would be. She's so much more of a people person. She’s funny, she’s nice.’ Do you think that, like, people don’t get you? I mean you get out there and people see a different side of you.”

– Maria Shriver’s questions to Hillary Clinton during her bus tour, July 16 Today. [44]
 
“Thirty seconds, but I want to get this in: Janet Reno, ninety-day investigation to look into whether a special prosecutor should be appointed for this campaign finance thing. Is that a big problem for the President? Has he done anything that anybody else wouldn’t have done?”

– ABC’s Lisa McRee to Cokie Roberts, September 9 Good Morning America. [43]
 
“Couldn’t this be just a witch hunt, couldn’t the Democrats and President Clinton’s people who’ve been defending him all these months be right, that even though he screwed up there’s some political motivation there. Couldn’t that be right?”

– Lisa McRee to humorist P.J. O’Rourke, September 10 Good Morning America. [40]

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