Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!ios!qubix!jdb From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: BM Message-ID: <1426@qubix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:57:40 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1426 Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:57:40 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 08:31:40 EDT References: <287@mhuxt.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 26 > From: techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew) > "Yea, it's blackmail, but it's good blackmail. > That's what America's all about." That is one entertaining quote all right. Sure gets the old curiosity going. Does the poster (or anybody) have any information about who said the above, or in what context? Here are a couple of other attention-getters: "Do you know why I am a true political leader? Because I am here without your votes." Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt, broadcast to the nation, May 24, 1982 (after the coup in which he siezed power) "[Rios Montt is] a man of great personal integrity, totally committed to restoring democracy." Ronald Reagan, after meeting with Rios Mont. December 1982 Well, I thought they were funny. -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb