Scenes From a Springtime Greenmarket

“Now polluters are looked upon as ordinary Joes just doing their jobs. In the future, they will be looked upon as swine”

"George Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner, has said repeatedly that the team is not for sale. But the beauty of eminent domain is that for once the Boss' feel­ings don't matter."

"At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we wrote in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"

“In the impeachment of the President one of the articles charged him with ‘intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues’ in public addresses, tending to the harm of the government.”

“We all hope the guy is clean,” a Democratic aide said. “For the sake of the country, we hope he's clean. Partisanship disappears very fast in this sort of situation.”

“In answer to your next question, no, I didn't like ‘Miss Saigon.’ ”