"They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off."
   -- Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
   -- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
   -- A congressional candidate in Texas

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."
   -- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle on the complex social issues behind the Los Angeles Riots

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
   -- John Wayne

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
   -- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle