Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, August 9, 1999 | by John Elvin

"Trust me when I say it's going to take more than a village to defeat Hillary Clinton."

-- Winton Blount, chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, in a fund-raising letter mailed to 10,000 donors seeking $100 contributions to be sent to the Republican Party in New York.

"I understand dimly that Hillary Clinton must have somewhere to live ... something to do and somewhere to sit. I haven't yet had it convincingly explained to me why this is all up to us, and why a nomination to the United States Senate is ... hers without the asking.

-- British journalist and self-proclaimed man of the left Christopher Hitchens wonders about the first lady in The Nation magazine.

"Can it be that Bill Clinton is merely ... the horse she rode in on?"

--Teaser for a Time magazine story on Hillary Clinton's ambitions.