”The eventual nominee could well be somebody who is not in the race:
Governor Cuomo, Bill Bradley-or me.”
-Former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt, on his relative obscurity in the Democratic presidential campaign.
”Our answer is firm and clear: Don`t expect us to do it; it is none of our business, or yours, for that matter.”
-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, rejecting the idea of the Soviet Union or any other country trying to shape a future Afghanistan government when Soviet troops leave the country.
”The whole war generation would have to be incriminated if knowledge of atrocities was a crime.”
-Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, after an international commission concluded he knew about Nazi war crimes but did nothing to stop them while an officer in Hitler`s army in Yugoslavia.
”A lot of you had to change your plans, but you know I did, too. I`ve been awfully busy with arms control, the INF treaty and the Russians.”
-Nancy Reagan, addressing guests at the surprise 77th birthday party she arranged for President Reagan.
”Even for a political campaign, it set record lows in mendacity, brutality and intellectual vulgarity.”
-Former federal judge Robert Bork, on the efforts of Sen. Edward Kennedy
(D., Mass.) to block his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
