AFRICAN-AMERICANS "I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job." --Evan Mecham (governor of Arizona, 1987-1988)

BONDAGE "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." --Dan Quayle

BILL CLINTON "We're never said to the press that Clinton is a philandering, pot-smoking draft dodger." --Mary Matalin (1992 Bush deputy campaign manager)

CRIME "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe." --Frank Rizzo (mayor of Philadelphia, 1972-1980)

DIVERSITY "We have every mixture you can have. I have a woman, two Jews, and a cripple." --James Watt (Secretary of the Interior, 1981-1983), describing an Interior Department advisory group.

FUTURE "We see nothing but increasingly brighter clouds every month." --Gerald Ford (president, 1974-1977), speaking to a group of Michigan businessmen about the economy.

LANGUAGE "People said that my language was bad, but Jesus--you should have heard LBJ!" --Richard Nixon

NEGATIVISM "In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism." --Spiro Agnew (vice president, 1969-1973).

POVERTY "We're the only nation in the world where all our poor people are fat." --Phil Gramm (senator from Texas, 1985-)

TEEN PREGNANCY "Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25." --Mary Anne Tebedo (Colorado state senator, 1989-)

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