”I am Dr. Spin, and I want you all to report that.”
-Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle, telling reporters he`s tired of being controlled by Bush campaign advisers and henceforth will put his own ”spin” on stories.
”I think Bush will come around to seeing the need for taxes. We`ll leave it to the English majors to figure out how he can word it.”
-John Akers, chairman of IBM, on how some corporate leaders don`t believe the Vice President`s promise to not raise taxes.
”The guy plays baseball the way my wife shops. All day long.”
-Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda, on the competitive spirit of injured star Kirk Gibson.
”The game, once you begin to see how much is in it, how everything changes every second, is like no other. It is as though it is from another planet.”
-Vadim Kulakov, catcher for a Soviet baseball team touring the U.S., on why he loves the American pastime.
”Before Chernobyl, they were all more loyal.”
-Yevgeny Ignatenko, chief of science and technology at the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Science, on the new reluctance of local officials to approve nuclear power plants in their towns.
