”I will approach this job as if I am going to be here for the next 20 years. I`m not going to kill time.”
-Jerome Van Gorkom, the Chicago Housing Authority`s new top operating officer.
”The thing that disturbed some of us was the process, but we couldn`t have picked a better man.”
-CHA board member Patricia Crowley, on the feeling among some board members that they were excluded from the selection of Van Gorkom.
”It is not easy to know the intentions of God Himself. He is a great mystery. We know that He is justice, mercy and love.”
-Pope John Paul II, in response to a reporter who asked whether AIDS is a divine punishment for homosexuality.
”It is the worst of signals that could be sent to Central America.”
-Carlos Tunnermann, Nicaragua`s ambassador to the United States, criticizing a new contra-aid request.
”I heard that we were getting back together. I was delighted for us and I hope we`ll both be very happy.”
-Actress Carrie Fisher, on the periodic reports of a reconciliation with her former husband, singer Paul Simon.
”We have to make sure that everybody who goes to the polls in Minnesota knows that Hubert Humphrey is dead.”
-U.S. Sen. David Durenberger (R., Minn.), on his concern over name recognition helping his potential challenger, Hubert Humphrey III, son of the late vice president and senator.
