"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline, soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalize' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violated the rational, enlightened claim of its enunciatory modality."
--Homi Bhabha, The University of Chicago
"Now, as I said, we can't continue to organize ourselves to try to stand against these things [ethnic cleansing] around the workd -- which I firmly hope we will."
--Bill Clinton, 04/06/99
"Well, certainly from the title itself, in terms of employment discrimination I am very much for ensuring that there is no discrimination. I'm not sure that I know the details of that piece of legislation. But I would support ... I'm against any sort of discrimination, of any sort. Um.... Okay, we're talking about legislation that would, ah, be supportive of, um, privileges for, uh, gays and lesbians in terms of, uh, as I ... I'm ... I'm not for, uh, .. I'm against discrimination in any form for any reason. I'm not for special privileges, though, because of one's sexual orientation."
--Elizabeth Dole, 06/99
"The Million Mom March's rhetoric strikes a blow at the psychological solar plexus of the pro-gun movement, the alliance between pro-gun and anti-abortion sentiments. Reproductive control and lack of gun control are inseparable halves of what feminists once dubbed the 'male protection racket': If women have no control over their wombs, then they are helpless dependents in need of men's protection. But if women can make their own choices, they no longer need the paternal guardianship either. That is why gun ownership and anti-abortion advocacy go together: each props up the other."
--Susan Faludi
"I think at core [Clinton's] an honest person. I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."
--Dan Rather
"Well, let's just force people to be married... To say that marriage will solve illegitimacy, and marriage - according to the Bible and letting faith-based groups train these people - will solve the problems, to me, is an obscenity... It's the height of arrogance..."
--Rep. Pete Stark, (Democrat, California) 05/28/99
"I loved it when we made that football. The Giants had just made a football, and we came right back."
--Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland Lt. Governor, presumably discussing back-to-back kickoff returns for tuchdowns in SUper Bowl XXXV
"Because I think the American people are much more focused on if they knew the substance of the reason I'm at the table of the Gore campaign, they'd be pleased and interested and glad to know, because they're the substance of what American families are concerned about."
--Naomi Wolf
"Well, I bring the kind of mind that no only has listened to many, many women, and can bring, I hope with some nuance, along with the many other women from the women's committee who are talking to Al Gore, that Al Gore's reaching out to, a very committed sense of the issues and concerns that women are looking at."
--Naomi Wolf
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