”One man`s luxury is another man`s necessity. Some people just have to have yachts.”
-Samuel Ehrenhalt, New York commissioner of labor statistics, on how the October stock market crash failed to trigger an expected decline in the purchase of luxury items.
”No matter what is written about her, there`s one thing on which any first lady must be a stone wall. The first lady is first of all a wife.”
-First Lady Nancy Reagan, on her role as the protector of the President`s health and well-being, even if it ”interferes with affairs of state.”
”It seems to me that if you`re on the rack it doesn`t make any difference if your torturer is right- or left-handed.”
-Ex-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, on former UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick`s contention that there is an important distinction between friendly and unfriendly authoritarian governments.
