”The United Nations has Iraq spread-eagled against the car and is going through its pockets.”
-A Western diplomat, referring to a tough United Nations resolution to allow Iraq to sell oil only to buy humanitarian supplies and pay war damages.
”Out of 27,000 people, you run into a guy that you know. I was a smidgen surprised.”
-Jack McCormick, warden of the Montana State Prison, who found himself in line at a Seattle Mariners game behind a Montana prison escapee, whom he promptly had arrested.
”People I had known would actually cross the street so as not to speak to me.”
-Rev. Marvin Gorman of New Orleans, testifying in his $90 million defamation suit against rival televangelist Jimmy Swaggert, accused of spreading false rumors about Gorman`s sex life.
”In Washington, D.C., where I live, there actually are more lawyers than people.”
-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O`Connor, in a speech to the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta.
”I saw him at the jail. The man was sitting, laughing, talking on the phone and watching television. He is not remorseful. I don`t think he`s killed anybody else. Not that many.”
-Court-appointed attorney Jim Rose, who represents the woman charged with giving Donald Leroy Evans her 10-year-old daughter for sex, doubting Evans`
claims that he killed 60 people during a decade of wandering.
