”The sea is not normal.” –
Soviet Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Vadim Perfilyev, describing Malta`s worst storm in decades, which turned the seaborne summit into the
”Seasick Summit.”
+++
”I am offering an exclusive presidential interview to any reporter who can get to Belknap in the next 15 minutes. Any reporter who swims will be granted three interviews.”
– White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, announcing that the storm had marooned President Bush on the U.S. cruiser.
+++
”It`s looking more and more like this was an American idea.”
– A senior Soviet official, when asked which side had decided to hold the summit on a ship.
+++
”The first thing to do is to eliminate those kind of ships that you cannot board in this kind of weather.”
– Gorbachev, at the start of the summit.
+++
”Long time no see.”
– Gorbachev to Bush, after waiting all evening for him to turn up for dinner on Saturday night.
+++
”It would require a hell of a lot of money for us to be doing the public relations exercise that we are getting from this summit.”
– Malta`s Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami.
+++
”I`ve had the unpleasant experience when abroad of people asking me where Malta is. I`m quite sure now everybody knows where Malta is.”
– Fenech Adami.
