The Backlash! - July 1996

Quotes

What they're saying

My generation has been guilty of more taxation without representation than anybody since King George III. We are pre-spending the next generation's money.
-- Dick Lamm, Newsweek July 22, 1996

I submit that Clinton and Engler (John Engler, governor of Michigan) were two of this nation's first yuppies. Their opportunistic attitudes, which were adopted by so many young men and women of the late Sixties, helped shape our current society.

-- Asa Baber, Playboy September, 1996

You want to emphasize the opportunity inherent in every person, rather than their victimization, because victimization leads to passivity, to grievance and to helplessness and is exactly the wrong psychology if you're poor.

Newt Gingrich, TIME December 25, 1995

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