Memorable quotes from 1970-1997

``If it helps you any, I'll drop my pants.'' -- Douglas Bruce, responding to Mayor Isaac. (Dec. 19, 1991)

``Women have a dickens of a time convincing that stubborn species, men, to suit up into these kinds of things.'' -- John Potterat, director of the sexually transmitted disease-AIDS control program for the El Paso County Health Department, commenting on condoms. (Sept. 23, 1993)

``The biggest part of the problem was that it was worded in such a way that they hid the discrimination clause and that enabled them to claim it was about special rights.'' -- Bobbie McCallum, spokeswoman for the Equal Protection Campaign, responding on election night to the passage of Amendment 2, the law that banned laws protecting gays from discrimination. (Nov. 4, 1992)

``Why in the hell should we care if someone gets drunk and goes out and runs his motorcycle into a tree?'' -- El Paso County Commissioner Jim Campbell arguing that the coroner performs too many routine autopsies. (Dec. 19, 1991)

``I do not like Brigham Young. I do not like the school, the football team, their smug attitude or their coaching methods.'' -- Gazette sports editor Ralph Routon in a column chastising Brigham Young University's players for poor sportsmanship during and after a 30-25 victory over Air Force. (Oct. 21, 1984)

``The whole S&L bailout ended up just being welfare for the rich. Many investors who bought from the RTC almost immediately doubled or tripled their money.'' -- Bob Hoff, co-owner of Hoff & Leigh Inc., a local commercial real-estate brokerage firm, commenting on the savings and loan crisis. (April 9, 1995)