Notable Quotables
Issue date: 4/22/05 Section: Ed-Op
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"I think it's dead. Sorry, the monster news anchors are dead."
Sam Donaldson, ABC News reporter, at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas, referring to network news as a dying breed.
"We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous. And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
Rep. Tom Delay, House Majority Leader, admonishing the style and methods of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy.
"You yawned rather audibly there. As a matter of fact, it was to the point that it was contemptuous. [...] Your boredom just cost you $1,000. I'm finding you in contempt. Are you quite so bored now?"
Judge Craig Veals, Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, Calif., after a juror yawned and claimed he was bored.
"I am very concerned. I would have thought his advanced age and his health which is not very stable would have been reason enough for the cardinals to pick someone else. But the cardinals made their decision and that is the will of God."
Georg Ratzinger, brother of newly chosen Pope Benedict XVI, expressing his shock at the election of his brother to the highest office in the Roman Catholic Church.
"I think he thought I was an old woman and would just give him the money. My life was at stake. I thought he was going to kill me."
Janet Grammer, clerk at a convenience store in Jacksonville, Fla., about shooting and wounding an armed robber. Grammer is 64 and a great-great-grandmother. Florida has recently enacted new gun legislation making it easier to defend oneself in case of a confrontation.
Sam Donaldson, ABC News reporter, at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas, referring to network news as a dying breed.
"We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous. And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
Rep. Tom Delay, House Majority Leader, admonishing the style and methods of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy.
"You yawned rather audibly there. As a matter of fact, it was to the point that it was contemptuous. [...] Your boredom just cost you $1,000. I'm finding you in contempt. Are you quite so bored now?"
Judge Craig Veals, Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, Calif., after a juror yawned and claimed he was bored.
"I am very concerned. I would have thought his advanced age and his health which is not very stable would have been reason enough for the cardinals to pick someone else. But the cardinals made their decision and that is the will of God."
Georg Ratzinger, brother of newly chosen Pope Benedict XVI, expressing his shock at the election of his brother to the highest office in the Roman Catholic Church.
"I think he thought I was an old woman and would just give him the money. My life was at stake. I thought he was going to kill me."
Janet Grammer, clerk at a convenience store in Jacksonville, Fla., about shooting and wounding an armed robber. Grammer is 64 and a great-great-grandmother. Florida has recently enacted new gun legislation making it easier to defend oneself in case of a confrontation.
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