I do wonder what Eleanor Roosevelt might think of all this.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's reaction to the media furor over revelations that she consulted with New Age guru Jean Houston to help conduct imaginary conversations with deceased leaders Mrs. Clinton admired.

Liberals have to come out of the closet and start pounding on other people's doors and say we're liberal.

Americans for Democratic Action's STEVE POLSKI at the group's conference, offering advice for breathing life into an ideology in disrepute.

Say what you want about the president, we know his friends have convictions.

House Majority Leader DICK ARMEY, reacting to the stunning Whitewater verdicts in Little Rock.

He does a terrific job. All I know is that anything that has to do with security or logistics-Craig's going to take care of it. You don't have to tell him how to do it, when to do it. Just that it needs to be done, and he does it. And he knows how to cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.

White House adviser GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, discussing the competence of White House personnel security office chief Craig Livingstone, who resigned last week under fire. Mr. Stephanopoulos made the comment to the Pittsburgh Post--Gazette in May of 1994.

I don't know him that well. He's a guy that was around. He came up to me one day and said, 'My paper's doing this, would you give them a quote?' and I said, 'Sure.' I never worked with him on a campaign, but he seemed competent. What can I tell you?

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, when confronted with the quote by The Washington Post's Al Kamen.

I take a lot of heat in this job.

GOP candidate BOB DOLE, answering a well-wisher's question, "Where did you get such a good tan?"

Here again we have an attempt by the White House to suggest that the entire story has been told-this time about a book-when, in fact, it has not.

Liberal Washington Post columnist RICHARD COHEN, on his colleague Bob Woodward's book revealing also that Mrs. Clinton enlisted the help of "New Age Nudniks" Jean Houston and Mary Catherine Bateson in writing It Takes a Village, a book for which she had claimed sole authorship.