Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, August 19, 2002 | by John Elvin

"She clobbered him."

--A source assesses a shouting confrontation between Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. According to the New York Post, Hillary believes Feingold's campaign-finance reform proposals may result in persecution of politicians by their political enemies.

"I don't know why anybody in America would say, `Mr. Big Shot, get yourself elected to Congress and then be stupid enough to deny yourself the pay and benefits that your job warrants.'"

--House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas defending the fourth congressional pay raise in four years.

"We may be able to add to our knowledge as a result of this."

--An archaeologist in Arizona comments on the effects of the largest wildfire in state history, which burned an area of about 700 square miles and may have exposed previously undiscovered sites of early human habitation.