”Why would I be? Don`t you think I have a more exciting job than George Bush?”
–Gov. James Thompson, when asked if he would be interested in running for vice president.
”I simply enjoyed the confusion.”
–Mayor Harold Washington, on why he waited so long to declare that he`d stay in the Democratic primary.
”If you`d say which one blinks first and which one has the most brass, I`d say it would be Hynes and Vrdolyak in that order.”
–A Democratic political consultant, speculating whether Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes and Ald. Edward Vrdolyak will give up their third-party candidacies for mayor.
”I`m asking you to help me extend my life. We`re at the point where God could call Oral Roberts home.”
–Evangelist Oral Roberts, asking his television audience for $4.5 million in contributions because God told him he might not live past March without their support.
