Mark My Words… I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Nov 15, 1999

"While most people on the left and the right maintained their beliefs and values as adults, it was the right-wing activists who moved leftward, not the reverse."

-- An interesting assessment of the current status of the activist youth movements of the 1960s, from Young Americans for Freedom to the Students for a Democratic Society, by University of California sociologist Rebecca Klatch, author of a new book, A Generation Divided.

"I wouldn't be surprised if there's over 300."

-- Federal Election Commission spokesman Ian Stirton commenting on the probable field of presidential candidates in the Y2K race.

"I've threatened to do everything but blow the [bleeping] train."

-- An Ohio county sheriff expresses "rail rage" over frequent blocking of crossings by railway traffic for as long as four hours at a time to and from Detroit and Chicago.

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