Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is enough room on the wall for a picture of Saddam Hussein. In what pose, exactly? a Bush adviser was asked last week. "Dead would be nice," he replied -- a flip remark that nonetheless reflected both the situation's seriousness and an outcome the Administration would welcome...
...stop being nice when it's inconvenient. More recently, about the budget deficit, there was this classic Bushism: "People understand that Congress bears a greater responsibility for this. But I'm not trying to assign blame." He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice...
Applause that followed his remark indicatedwide support for sticking to the current partystructure...
...with the Jerusalem Post, Shamir seemed to lay down a new condition for negotiations to arrange those elections. Said he: "There is nothing to discuss with those among the Palestinian Arabs who are opposed to autonomy." In Israel that is a code word for strictly limited self- government; the remark thus implied that Israel will talk only with Palestinians who abandon the idea of an eventual independent state. Any such condition would make it quite certain that no Palestinians would come to the bargaining table...
...this book -- after Jerry Brinson comes back from the fire to find his domestic life in ashes, after a reflexive, ineffectual act of violence -- an early remark from father to son has taken on new significance: "You have a clear mind, Joe. Nothing bad will happen to you." That does not mean what it literally seems to say. Nothing bad will happen to Joe, not because he is immune to misfortune but because he has the capacity to endure -- by understanding -- everything...