Word: quip
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...European competitors, he was only stating the obvious. True, the U.S. launches real astronauts and not just satellite payloads. But dismayed by delays, cost overruns and the Challenger disaster, paying clients began to go elsewhere. The shuttle's $80 million-per-launch cost prompted California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to quip that it is "the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills...
...have helped fund the Dole campaign, want the candidate to push for free-trade agreements. Confusion over timing, as well as bickering among foreign-policy advisers, prompted the cancellation two weeks ago of a diplomatic speech at the Richard Nixon library and led Dole to deliver a trademark quip, "I didn't know I had so many advisers on China." The problem, however, is deeper than that: Dole appears bereft of core beliefs on fundamental issues, such as whether the U.S. should extend China's "Most Favored Nation" trade status and whether the U.S. should abandon its longstanding "One China...
...attending a two-day Group of Seven conference in the French city of Lille. Poised to descend the grand stairway at their hotel, both men suddenly realized they were being watched by a crowd of reporters and photographers below. Brown leaned over to Reich and offered the kind of quip that captured his instinct for politics, his sense of timing and his self-deprecating humor. "The only way people will think we are doing something important," he told Reich, "is if we stand up straight, walk fast and let our arms swing." So they...
...went to Widener 2W, the German section, to read some of Hitler's earlier work. And I thought that the great quip about the "original German" was never so real. I was reading in 1929 and thinking about the disillusioned workers and Weimar and the need to have a strong fatherland. I was living in 1996 and living in 1929. I was in Germany and I was in America, and I had to have hope, there in the stacks, that history couldn't be so easily trashed. Hope that America couldn't be so easily manipulated...
...bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...