"He didn't say that.  He was reading what was given to him in a speech." --
Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't
following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands

"I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was
flying made what I was doing spying." -- Francis Gary Power, U-2
reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he
was returned to the US.

"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes." --
President Richard Nixon

"Smoking kills.  If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life." -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a
federal anti-smoking campaign

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." -- Winston
Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the
country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

"Are you any relation to your brother Marv?" -- Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets
guard, to Steve Albert, Nets TV commentator

"Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be
discontinued...Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on
January 1, 1976." -- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's
history....  We all lived in this century.  I didn't live in this century."
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential
candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the
Holocaust

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia.  It's only the people who make them
unsafe." -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

"The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death
penalty for certain violent crimes:  assassinating the President; hijacking
an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector." -- Knight Ridder
News Service dispatch

"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing." -- Dizzy Dean explaining how
he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series