Notable Quotables - 08/02/1993
Erroneous Reagan Reasoning
"But how is it that
Mr. Reagan could make compromises on the way to his goals and be remembered as
a man of principle, while Mr. Clinton does the same and becomes known as a
compromiser? Mr. Reagan did not just get away with compromises. He got away
with whoppers - huge, erroneous statements about how Reaganomics would
produce simultaneous growth and deficit reduction."
- New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman, July 25 "Week in
Review" section.
Hillary The Centrist?
"Myth: Hillary
takes her cues from Marx (and it ain't Groucho) and is at the core of a secret
radical coven....Conspiracy buffs will have to work overtime to find a Cuban
connection in Hillary's advocacy of child-immunization programs...Her answers,
numbingly cautious as they were, reflected nothing so much as her irresistible
pull to the magnetic center."
- Former Time Senior Writer Walter Shapiro, August Esquire.
Clinton's Condom Queen: Absolutely Right
"What people are
really after her for is her views, and the religious right is fueling a lot of
this. Her central pre-occupation is that 80 percent of the poverty in this
country is caused by children having children that they can't bring up, and
she's absolutely right. She's not encouraging promiscuity. She's encouraging
us to face up to this society as it is."
- Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on Surgeon General nominee
Joycelyn Elders, July 17 McLaughlin Group.
Irresponsible Republicans
"Whatever budget
gets passed seems certain to pass without a single Republican vote. That is
beyond politics, that's obstinance. Is it going to wind up hurting the
Republicans?"
- Bryant Gumbel, July 14 Today.
"The leadership of
the Republican Party in the House has one purpose in this session and it has
nothing to do with legislation. It has to do with tearing down the Democratic
majority. It has to do with a slash-and-burn strategy. It is, I believe, very
destructive."
- U.S. News & World Report Senior Writer Steven Roberts on
C-SPAN, July 26.
Reno for President
"Janet Reno could
be the next President of the United States. She's doing such a fabulous job
and even people who came out and were ready to be very critical of her,
extremely critical of her, just love her."
- Fox Broadcasting reporter Gloria Moraga, July 9 Fox Morning News.
Time for a Prohibitive Gas Tax - Again!
"The real story is
the proposed gas tax is far too low...There's only one problem with the 4.3
cents-per-gal. gas tax the Senate has proposed: it's too little...Where it
says 4.3 cents, they should add two words: a year. And maybe a third word:
forever. For decades, we'd still be paying vastly less for gas than our
competitors (in Europe and Asia, gas goes for nearly $4 per gal.). For
decades, the hike in the tax would be more or less canceled out by available
improvements in fuel efficiency - so it would cost no more to drive a
mile."
- Time "Money Angles" columnist Andrew Tobias, July 26
issue.
The Military: A Sensual Gay Experience
"Many GIs
recognized homosexual leanings for the first time in the all-male
surroundings....There is, in fact, an undercurrent of homoerotic tension in
the shared latrines, shower rooms, and sleeping quarters of barracks
life....The military exalts masculinity in ways that are frankly or implicitly
sexual. A form-fitting dress uniform can make a leatherneck look like a
peacock."
- Newsweek Senior Writer David Gelman, July 26.
Clear Clinton?
"Since he's been
President, Mr. Clinton has made it clear where he wants to go on policy, but
sometimes he's had trouble bringing others along. That's been true of his tax
policy and his strategy on Bosnia."
- ABC reporter Ann Compton on Good Morning America, July 5.
No Crime Under Communism
"In this part of
the world, we applaud freedom and democracy and for the most part we applaud
the accumulation of wealth. We also know that all of these can and do cause
problems, crime being one of them. For other countries where democracy, as we
know it, was virtually unknown, uncommon as well were the negatives. Take the
former Soviet Union. We may not have been privy really to a great deal of
information from the Soviet bloc, but crime didn't seem to be much on
anybody's mind. Well, not any more."
- ABC World News Now anchor Thalia Assuras, July 26.
Bashing Brit Hume
"In asking his
windy, insensitive, and celebrated Rose Garden zigzag question in June, Brit
Hume assumed the mantle of [Sam] Donaldsonism....Whatever Judge Ruth Bader
Ginsburg had in mind when she was presented by Clinton to the public, surely a
ceremony she must have imagined as one of the crowning moments of her life,
Hume saw himself as more important. In fact, he will be as remembered for the
event as the future justice."
- Former CBS Morning News Executive Producer Jon Katz in Rolling
Stone, August 19.
And Bert Lance Symbolized the '70s
"Charles Keating
flashed a grin moments before being sentenced to 12 and a half years for
looting his Lincoln Savings and Loan and defrauding elderly bondholders. Many
of them felt the man who came to symbolize '80s greed got off too easy."
- CNN reporter Anne McDermott, July 8 World News.
The Hungry '80s
"Widespread hunger
in the United States was virtually eliminated in the 1970s, according to
Brown, but hunger increased dramatically and steadily during the 1980s. To put
it simply, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer."
- Boston Globe reporter/photographer Stan Grossfeld citing left-wing
Tufts researcher Larry Brown, July 25.
All For Abortion
"On the subject of
abortion, where do you stand on the choice versus anti-choice issue?"
- Hugh Downs interviewing Barry Goldwater on 20/20, July 23.
"The city editor
stepped in. Minus a few descriptive words, here's the essence of what he said:
Look, the pro-choice people are pro-choice. The people who say they're
pro-life aren't really pro-life. They're nothing but a bunch of hypocritical
right-wing religious fanatics, and we'll call them whatever we want to call
them."
- Scripps-Howard religion columnist Terry Mattingly on a Rocky Mountain
News editor answering Mattingly's questions about labeling of the
abortion battle, July/August Quill.
- L. Brent Bozell III;
Publisher
- Brent H. Baker, Tim Graham; Editors
- Andrew Gabron, Kristin Johnson, Steve Kaminski, Mark Rogers; Media Analysts
- Kathleen Ruff, Circulation Manager;
- David Felton, David Muska; Interns
