”Socialism and capitalism can never be reconciled, just like fire and water can never be reconciled.”
-East German leader Erich Honecker, at his historic meeting in Bonn with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
”I expect every Catholic and every Jew in America to buy this book.”
-New York Mayor Edward Koch, on the book on church-state issues he and John Cardinal O`Connor are writing.
”Dallas is finally ready to handle it. The feeling in Dallas now is that this site is bigger than all of us.”
-Conover Hunt, director of a project to open to the public the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy.
”I hope we have not lost your friendship.”
-Convicted murderer Mario Tuti, addressing 28 hostages he was releasing from an Italian prison after an eight-day siege.
”I sought the source of peace, and the source of peace is not in Washington but in Moscow.”
-West German pilot Mathias Rust, telling a Soviet court why he made his flight in a single-engine plane through Soviet airspace into the heart of Moscow.
”We have the best tunes, but we are not singing them loud enough.”
-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, defending her government`s policies on a visit to Scotland, where her party was routed in recent House of Commons elections.
