”There`s little hope of stopping the closings. The rails may not exactly be greased, but they`re definitely slippery.”
-Rep. Dick Armey (R., Tex.), predicting that Congress will accept a bipartisan commission`s recommendation to close 86 military installations in the U.S.
”I`ll have other ways of communicating that will be much more pleasant for you and much more pleasant for me and much more respectful of our guests like foreign visitors.”
-George Bush, saying that after his inauguration reporters will not be permitted to question him during photo sessions with visiting dignitaries.
”The only difference between the Ku Klux Klan and Judge Hampton is that one wears a white robe and the other a black robe.”
-Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, after District Court Judge Jack Hampton said he gave a lighter sentence to a murderer because his two victims were homosexuals out to pick up teenage boys.
”I want to be able to say that I was not only a good athlete, but I had some smarts-not all the smarts in the world, but enough smarts to go back and get my degree.”
-George Rogers, on returning as a full-time student to the University of South Carolina, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1980.
