”Where the hell has he been?”
-A delegate to the NAACP convention, after Ross Perot addressed the audience as ”you people.”
”I was disappointed that he didn`t take my advice on that one.”
-Washington lawyer and former Urban League president Vernon Jordan, joking that he had advised Ross Perot not only to use the phrase ”you people” before the NAACP but also to say, ”My nanny was a wonderful colored lady.”
”I am making this information public myself to save `enquiring minds` 95 cents.”
-Singer Olivia Newton-John, announcing she has breast cancer rather than let the story come out in the tabloid press.
”It`s nice to say we`re the Pepsi generation, but what are we generating?”
-Jerry Brown, on the Democrats` ”Baby Boomer” ticket.
”This isn`t quite what I had in mind. It looks like the chess club took over.”
-Democratic consultant Patrick Caddell, who has long urged Democrats to tailor their message to Baby Boomers, on Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
