”It`s actually really beautiful if you keep your anxiety level down.”
–Chicagoan Rich Harris, commenting Sunday on his turbulent neighbor, Lake Michigan, as he tried to keep its wind-driven waters out of his condominium.
”The President is eager to engage, and the President`s staff is preparing an aggressive program for the spring.”
–Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, asserting that a seeming absence of forward motion at the White House is only temporary.
”It`s very clear from the State of the Union, and it`s very clear from the initiatives they are taking, that they don`t have the kind of agenda where you say, boy, this is going to be exciting.”
Paul Weyrich, a conservative with ties to the Reagan administration, on the sense of inaction he says prevails at the White House.
