`The differences between Clinton and Dole require a microscope. Dole will cut Medicare by $26 billion per year, Clinton by $19 billion. Dole wants smut and violence out of music lyrics. Clinton wants to V-chip it off TV. Dole rails against marijuana; Clinton against tobacco.’ — Columnist Charles Krauthammer.
DOROTHY LAMOUR, WHO DIED ON SUNDAY, ON WHAT IT WAS LIKE WORKING WITH BOB HOPE AND BING CROSBY IN THEIR “ROAD” PICTURES: `I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham.’
`Continual late syndrome.’
The Farmer’s Almanac’s name for doctors’ habit of making patients wait.
`If you want to play the game, you have to invest the money.’
Anthony Gierzynski, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Vermont, on a report, which he co-wrote, citing a 45 percent increase since 1991 in campaign spending by Chicago City Council members.
`I’m not happy about what he did, and sometimes I think about dismembering him. Good friends have offered to help me dig up the back yard and bury him.’
Eileen McGann, on husband Dick Morris’ lengthy liaison with a prostitute.
`He has no ideology other than pork.’
Ralph DeGennaro, executive director of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on Pennsylvania Rep. Bud Shuster, who is well-known for the millions in tax dollars that flow into his district.
`She’s got Princess Di and Jackie O down pat. She does the wave. She knows how to get out of the limousine.’
A former colleague, describing Carolyn Bessette, who married John F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday.
`Don’t you want to be a wife, and a mother, and a hostess for your husband?’
Mary Hanford, mother of Elizabeth Hanford Dole, when told her daughter was going to law school, according to Gail Sheehy in Vanity Fair magazine.
`The Russian army is a vastly dispirited one, kind of like the American army after Vietnam.’
A military expert, on the troubles plaguing a war machine that has been mired in a conflict with Chechnya but a decade ago awed the world.
`I have gout too.’
Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who is presiding over the civil trial against O.J. Simpson, rejecting one prospective juror’s reason he should be excused.
`Just don’t panic…. We’re just a sloppy football team right now.’
Bears linebacker Vinson Smith, on what he would tell younger players on the team.
