`Got to have some job training. Got to have some education. Got to have some uplift. Got to have some mentorship.’ -NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Chavis, on how to combat the rise in violence. Chavis opposes the three-strikes-and-you’re-out proposal, in which criminals may be sentenced to life in prison following their third federal felony conviction.
“NYPD BLUE” ACTOR DENNIS FRANZ, ON SIGNING A CONTRACT AGREEING TO TAKE OFF HIS CLOTHES FOR THE SHOW: `I figured anybody who wants to see this body with no clothes on, they’re welcome to it!’
`Thank God in this country we still have the right of self-defense . . . .’
-Defense lawyer Terry Kirk, on the acquittal of 11 Branch Davidians.
`In any human effort there will be mistakes. Mistakes do not justify the mass murder that David Koresh ordered on Feb. 28 and concluded on April 19.’
-John Magaw, director of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, on the jury’s verdict.
`I saved enough on e-mail (so) that I could mail him his Fruit Loops.’
-Carol Diamond, on the ease and inexpensive way she corresponds with her son, who lives in Japan.
`I’m probably the only person running for public office who has gotten up and admitted to making mistakes.’
-Senate-candidate Oliver North, responding to a heckler’s comment.
`The game was over after about 10 minutes.’
-Indiana coach Bobby Knight, on the 106-56 loss to Minnesota.
`We will not sit together with a bigot to fight bigotry.’
-Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, on Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader.
`This is a candidate-centered age.’
-Political scientist Martin Wattenberg, on the lack of party loyalties in the ’90s.
`You can expect to see urination, defecation and fornication on private property.’
-Dick Wrolsen, resident of Saugerties, N.Y., on the 25th anniversary celebration of Woodstock.
`There will be no race of Tonya Harding. History does not remember eighth place.’
-Chicago Tribune sports writer Jim Masek.
