They Said It

I mentioned to Vickie when I asked her to marry me that we should go to New York and rent a Dixieland band and charter a boat.

. . . I didn't tell her there would be 350 people from Massachusetts on board."

-- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy as he and his new wife, Victoria Reggie, rode around New York Harbor with the Massachusetts delegation.

"This is the most unified the Democratic Party has been in two decades."

-- Democratic National Committee Chairman Ronald Brown.