Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Jan 3, 2000 | by John Elvin

"Isn't it better to do something like that, to take out Slobodan Milosevic, to take out Saddam Hussein, rather than to spend billions of dollars on a war that harms innocent civilians and destroys the infrastructure of a country?"

-- Pat Robertson sparks an uproar by suggesting abandoning the antiassassination executive order in effect since the presidency of Gerald Ford.

"We estimate that 20 to 25 metric tons of cocaine pass through, over and around Panama yearly"

-- A State Department official mentions the establishment of U.S. counternarcotics-monitoring efforts based in "other countries" now that the United States has pulled out of Panama.

"Could I say he has one of the nicest bottoms I have seen ...?"

-- Welsh assembly-woman Alison Halford exercises hindsight in assessing colleague David Davies who, rather than complaining about sexist remarks, reportedly turned the other cheek.