Notable Quotables - 06/27/1988
Jim Wright
"If Attorney
General Ed Meese were not under investigation for alleged unethical behavior,
if Reagan intimate Mike Deaver had not been convicted of perjury, if former
Reaganite Lyn Nofziger had not been convicted for ethical violations, would
House Speaker Jim Wright now be the subject of a preliminary House
investigation into some of his activities? A lot of Wright supporters say no,
and some experts agree."
- Reporter Candy Crowley, CNN PrimeNews, June 11.
"The GOP response
will be to rebut Meese with Wright...This line, however, assumes not only that
both men are equally guilty or innocent, but also that the charges against
them are equally grave. And they are not. The accusations against Wright,
though serious, are not quite so weighty as those against Meese, and Wright
has by far the better defense."
- Time Senior Writer George Church, June 27 issue.
"Outside lawyer
sought for Wright probe"
- Washington Times, June 13.
"Combative Wright
Hits 'Flimsy' Case"
- Washington Post, same day.
Carl Rowan
"Anyone found in
possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail -
period."
- Carl Rowan in a 1981 column.
"The gun lobby
continues to work the White House and Congress to the point of guaranteeing
that almost any nut in any neighborhood can turn his house into an
arsenal."
- Rowan in a 1986 column.
David Brinkley:
"Suppose somebody was breaking into your house at night, and you didn't
have a gun. Wouldn't you wish you had one?"
Sam Donaldson: "No,
I'd call the police immediately, I'd slam the doors, I'd cower under the bed,
or in the closet..."
Brinkley:
"George?"
George Will: "I'd
call Carl Rowan."
- exchange on This Week with David Brinkley, June 19.
Economy
"Inflation rate
dips slightly in May"
- Washington Times, June 22.
"Consumer Prices Up
Slightly During May"
- Washington Post, same day.
"We begin with
money, the economy. The good news and the bad. The Reagan Administration
predicted today that the economy will continue to grow at a healthy rate this
year, and that inflation will hold steady at 4.3 percent. But behind that is a
disturbing figure. The federal deficit is deeper than the law allows, and NBC
News has learned that automatic cuts in spending, across the board, look
likely."
- Garrick Utley opening the June 23 NBC Nightly News.
Glasnost
"In one nice touch,
Soviet television reproduced a documentary on the Soviet Union, introduced
with the apology that the film gave an excessively glamorous portrait of the
country and failed to reflect the ferocious self-criticism currently under
way."
- Financial Times Moscow correspondent Quentin Peel, reporting on
Soviet criticism of Ted Turner's Portrait of the Soviet Union.
Campaign '88
"Dukakis is a
centrist."
- Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Scheer on The McLaughlin
Group, weekend of June 11.
"I believe that a
majority of the American people now accept the views I advocated in 1972. To
repudiate the McGovern Democrats in 1988 is to repudiate what is now the
mainstream of the Democratic Party."
- George McGovern, quoted by The Washington Post, June 22.
"Nancy Kassebaum:
Feverish attack on her in Human Events temporarily boosts profile of
Kansas Senator."
- Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom" column on vice
presidential prospects, June 13.
"Dukakis would junk
SDI, MX missiles"
- Washington Times, June 15.
"Dukakis Adopts
Centrist Stance: On National Security Policy, He Seeks to Reassure
Establishment"
- Washington Post, on same speech, next day.
El Salvador
"The United States'
policy was to make El Salvador a shining example of democracy in the Third
World. But after years of trying, and three billion dollars spent here
already, the United States may be on the brink of a monumental foreign policy
failure. Signs of the upset are clearly seen in the imminent shakeup of the
officer corps. Top Salvadoran military officers tell us that they have agreed
to voluntarily step aside
in favor of junior commanders who are demanding total war against El
Salvador's Marxist insurgency... But the communists, other U.S. policy makers
say, cannot be defeated by increased military action. If El Salvador abandons
democracy in favor of death squads and repression, they say, that will mean
failure."
- NBC reporter Ed Rabel on the June 10 Nightly News.
Pentagate
"Fraud probe looks
toward Democrats"
- Washington Times, June 20.
"Justice Dept. Hit
on Pentagon Probe: Keep Case Out of Main Agency's Hands, Two Lawmakers
Urge"
- Washington Post, same day.
Headlines of the Month
"Enquirer Survey
Reveals: More People Recognize Alf Than Dukakis!"
- National Enquirer, June 21.
"Freight train hits
mayor's limousine, ruins his day"
- Washington Times, June 21.
- L. Brent
Bozell III; Publisher
- Brent H. Baker, Tim Graham; Editors
- Jim Heiser, Richard Marois, Patrick Swan, Dorothy Warner; Media Analysts
- Cynthia Bulman; Administrative Assistant
