"If you're living in an area with a bad school, move to a place where there's a better school."
- Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Education, explaining   his ideas on what parents of children who attend poorly funded urban or rural schools should do to solve the problem

"We talked five times.  I called him twice, and he called me twice."
- Larry Bowa, California Angels coach

"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank,   explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World   countries.

"If you or any member of your family has been killed..."
- Lawyer commercial on TV, Orlando, Florida

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
- Lee Iacocca, former Chrysaler Chariman

"I don't diet.  I just don't eat as much as I'd like to."
- Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.

"I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?"
- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of The Nation of Islam

"It is now 22 minutes past 8:30."
- Lynn Russell, WKAT radio disc jockey

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