Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, June 28, 1999 | by John Elvin

"That's George Washington on the right."

-- Dan Jordan, executive director of Monticello, to Al Gore during a 1993 tour of the home of Thomas Jefferson. Viewing a collection of busts, Gore had asked: "Who are these people?"

"We feel that the chance of food poisoning from home-preserved food is greater than the very, very unlikely chance of a collapse of the food-delivery system."

-- Bill Evers of Purdue Cooperative Extension Service on the likelihood that inexperienced home canners preparing for Y2K may encounter botulism or other food poisoning as a result.

"I am not a citizen of the world; I am an American."

-- Presidential aspirant Pat Buchanan contrasts his campaign with that of his rivals, allowing that he, for one, is "not running for president of the world, but for president of the United States."