Quotes 41 - 50

• "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
  -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
• "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.
• "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
  -- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
• "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
  -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents
• "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
  -- Former French President Charles De Gaulle
• "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
• "The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet."
  -- Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.
• "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