-Caveat Lector- For anyone who's in need of researching their recollection for the specificity of the statements which may in question ... <<Damn!! They missed Starr-Boie!!>> >From AFP (via Yahoo!) Thursday December 24, 2:30 PM Quotes of 1998 PARIS, Dec 24 (AFP) - They said it. In confidence or for the cameras. Off the cuff or carefully scripted. With their careers on the line or their tongue in their cheek. In desperation, in anger or in pain. These are some of the sayings that marked 1998, summing up the year's drama and ironies in the words in which they are likely to be remembered. ++ I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anyone to lie, not a single time, never. -- President Bill Clinton after the first reports of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. ++ I'll never wash it again. -- Monica Lewinsky on the semen-stained dress seized as evidence by special counsel Kenneth Starr. ++ You'd think the boy would learn. -- Gennifer Flowers, former lover of Bill Clinton. ++ We elected a president, not a pope. -- Singer Barbara Streisand defending Bill Clinton. ++ It was like the American dream in reverse. We woke up poor. -- Russian victim of collapse of the ruble. ++ Thank you, Helmut, that's enough. -- Gerhard Schroeder during the election campaign in which he ended Helmut Kohl's 16 years as Chancellor. ++ In order to move things forward you have to talk with terrorists. -- Marjorie Mowlam, British Northern Ireland Secretary. ++ The mother of all treachery. -- Protestant leader Ian Paisley on the Northern Ireland peace accord. ++ I was hurt and bewildered. -- Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on being arrested in London. ++ Like all false gods, she could not last. -- Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Coggan on Diana, Princess of Wales, a year after her death. ++ Yes to the market economy. No to the market society. -- French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. ++ The good Lord didn't want me, but nor did the devil. So I came back. -- French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement on emerging from an eight-day coma caused by an allergy to an anaesthetic. ++ You can do a lot with diplomacy, but you can do a lot more with diplomacy backed up by force. -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the weapons inspection deal agreed with Iraq. ++ We did not go to Wye Plantation to discuss the release of car thieves. -- Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat on Israel's refusal to include political prisoners among those being released from Israeli jails. ++ Mitch killed them and I'm asking God for the strength to bear such pain. -- Nicaraguan Juan Espinoza, whose six children were buried in a landslide caused by Hurricane Mitch. ++ We have a big bomb now. -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee after India conducted five nuclear tests. (Later officially corrected to: "We have the capacity for a big bomb now"). ++ Everything was due to my lack of ability. -- Ryutaro Hashimoto, stepping down as Japanese prime minister. ++ From our experience, we have a very clear recognition that nuclear bombs and human beings cannot coexist. -- Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki, Japan. ++ Someone who is an exact replica of myself. -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed on the ideal candidate to be his deputy. ++ We own practically everything in the Philippines. -- Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. ++ With me, my women never complained. -- Philippines President Joseph Estrada when asked to compare himself with US President Bill Clinton. ++ You should not imagine that there is no ideological education in capitalist countries. -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin urging his Politburo colleagues to see the film "Titanic" as a parable of class divisions. ++ I'm king of the world. -- "Titanic" director James Cameron after his film scooped eight Academy Awards. ++ My immediate response was an overwhemming desire to go out and score a load of cocaine in rebellion. -- Actress Emma Thompson on being proposed as a role model for young girls. ++ I'll never forgive them. -- French trainer Aime Jacquet on sceptics in the local press after his team had beaten Brazil 3-0 to lift the soccer World Cup. ++ Before the game we are going to shake hands and at the end I would like to trade jerseys with an Iranian player. -- US soccer player Ernie Stewart before the US-Iran World Cup encounter in France. ++ I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex. -- England soccer star Paul Ince. ++ If they were wild animals you'd put them to sleep. -- Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher on German hooligans. ++ I think I can describe this affair as a mere sideshow. -- Jean-Claude Killy, President of the Tour de France, after leading race masseur Willy Voet was arrested with a large haul of performance-enhancing drugs. ++ Eat fish and more fish. -- Ahmed Rashid bin Aboud, of the United Arab Emirates, on how he fathered 23 sons and 23 daughters from eight wives without any need for the miracle drug Viagra. ++ For our next job, we have to come up here and have a retirement home in space. -- 77-year-old John Glenn, speaking from space in a televised discussion with Scott Carpenter, 73, his former colleague in the 1960s Mercury space program. ++ We have come to realise humans are more like worms than we ever imagined. -- Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, after US and British researchers cracked the complete genetic code for the tiny "Caenorhabditis elegans" worm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ A<>E<>R The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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