From Deseret News archives:
Politicians shoot from lip with quips, retorts
Not all politicians beat about the bush. When former Maryland Gov. William Schaefer, a Democrat, was asked about successor Parris Glendening, also a Democrat, he sniffed, "I will not have any disparaging remarks about him except I hate him." Glendening said Schaefer "isn't prejudiced he hates everybody equally."
Barbara Bush, the mother of the president and the Florida governor and the wife of a former president, reflected on her role: "I am advising the former president, the governor of Florida and the president of the United States. I guess you could say I rule the world."
This was the year the Department of Homeland Security got rolling and advised us to be wary and buy plastic sheeting (in case of biological attack) and stock up on batteries. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked if he had complied, replied, "I would like to say I did. I don't believe we do. But I do have a miniature dachshund named Reggie, who looks out for us."
Take that, Osama.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a presidential candidate, responded, "I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term."
That's probably not what Clinton meant when he told fellow Democrats: "We need to give them something they won't get from the other guys."
Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense, gave his thoughts about the current president to a magazine writer. "The first time I met Bush 43 (George W. is the 43rd president, his father was No. 41), I knew he was different. Two things became clear. One, he didn't know very much. The other was he had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn't know very much. Most people are reluctant to say when they don't know something a word or a term they haven't heard before. Not him."
And Perle is still on the White House Christmas-card list.
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