“It would be similar to having the Nazi Party and the Jewish Defense League get together to discuss if the Holocaust really happened.”
–Carpentersville Mayor Bill Sarto, on why he asked the League of Women Voters to cancel a discussion on immigration that was to be held at the town’s senior center.
“The army must consider ways its soldiers can let off steam.”
–Anne-marie Jorritsma-Lebbink, mayor of Almere, Netherlands, backing a proposal for prostitutes to accompany Dutch troops on foreign missions.
“People say, `Well, that’s just Cheney. He’s the Darth Vader of the administration, always taking the dark view.”
–Vice President Dick Cheney, on how some people view his perspective of the threat that terrorists could set off a nuclear or biological weapon in an American city.
“The most deadly combination would be long commute time, long work hours and living in a place where you have to get in the car and drive to get anything.”
–David Dinges, chief of the division of sleep and chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, on a study linking “volitional chronic sleep deprivation” to a variety of diseases.
