”The Olympics has been made a religion since 1981. Anyone against it is labeled an infidel.”
-South Korean magazine publisher Hahn Chang Gi, on what the games mean to his country.
”It is better than I had expected, but it is difficult to say anything while the cake is still being baked.”
-Andrzej Stelmachowski, senior adviser to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, on the progress of talks between the Polish government and the outlawed union. ”If the Arabs leave us alone, we`re Dr. Jekyll. If they use chemical weapons, we become Mr. Hyde. There will be no self-shackling when poison gas appears. We will be demonic in our response.”
-Former Israeli defense adviser Yehezkel Dror, on reports that some Arab nations might launch chemical warheads against Israeli civilians.
”The remarkable blossoming of the humanities in the public sphere is one of the least noted, though most important, cultural developments of the last few decades.”
-Lynne V. Cheney, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, on a government report that shows Americans are spending more money on cultural events than sports events.
