September/October, 1998 Volume XIII Number 2

Grapevine

"Nothing is more certain than that whatever has to court public favor its support will sooner or later be prostituted to utilitarian ends."
-- Richard Weaver

"The corruption of man is followed be the corruption of language."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We don't allow pedophiles, transvestites, or cross-dressers, either."
-- Robert Black, spokesman for the Texas Republican Party on the decision of the party to bar the homosexual "Log Cabin" Republican organization

"Get real' people are human."
-- Senate Majority leader Trent Lott responding to accusations against President Clinton.

"In Las Vegas every adoptable animal will live no mater how old or ugly."
-- USA TODAY, June 23, 1998, in an article announcing the city's decision to protect the lives of stray animals taken to a shelter. We would that unborn humans received such protection.

"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
--President Bill Clinton in January of 1998

"I misled people."
--Pres. Bill Clinton in admitting to adultery after seven months of denying charges

"Wasn't that pathetic. I tell you. What a jerk."
--Sen. Orin Hatch, R-Utah after President Bill Clinton admitted a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky

"This is the man with his hand on the button; the guy who can send our kids off to die in a war. How can we ever believe a word he says?"
--Mike Pruitt of Roanoke, VA responding to Clinton's admission

"This 'intimate affair' was no longer private when the geographical location bacame the Oval Office."
--Diane K. Schneider and Patricia H. Kirby, Northeast Portland

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