[1205] in Humor
HUMOR: Memorable Quotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Nov 16 10:11:47 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:02:47 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 23:50:59 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: "Karen Kienitz" <MA.KJK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
From: vlb@cfcl.com (Vicki Brown)
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that
he failed to pay his taxes.
"They give you a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits."
Congressman Joe Early (D-Mass) at a press conference to answer
questions about the House bank scandal.
"He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech."
Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush
wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be
no loss of wetlands
"It depends on your definition of asleep. They weren't stretched out.
They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their
heads in a nodding position."
Commonwealth Edison supervisor of news information John Hogan,
responding to a charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission
inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant Operators were
sleeping on the job.
"I didn't accept it. I received it."
Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan,
explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by
two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private
interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.
"I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that *where*
I was flying made what I was doing spying."
Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets
for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the US.
"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
