”It`s demeaning to sit there on the bench, looking at the lawyers, some of them only three or four years out of law school, and they`re making more than the judge.”
-Former federal judge Robert Bork, joining the call to increase judicial pay.
”The one point I agree with is that the acquirers don`t owe you anything. They have robbed you blind, and the duty of this Congress is to keep the thievery to a minimum.”
-Rep. Jim Leach (R., Ia.), to a Federal Home Loan Bank Board member on a plan to give tax breaks to businesses that take over ailing savings and loans. ”I would be very surprised 90 days from now if anyone`s convinced of serious bipartisanship.”
-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.), as the 101st Congress convened with pledges of new cooperation between Democrats and Republicans.
”It was frightening. I was this 7-year-old who was expected to be going on a mature 29. By the time I was 8 1/2, I felt like I was some abnormal, crazy girl. I could walk up to the door of any nightclub and they`d say, `Hi, you`re that little girl. Come in.` ”
-Actress Drew Barrymore, now 13, on the beginning of her drug and alcohol abuse at age 9.
