America hasjust passedthrough†an eight-yearcoma in which slogans were confused with solutions and rhetoric passed for reality.

-Bentsen, Lloyd Millard,Jr
  Recalling the Reagan administration as he accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice-President, 21  Jul.

We have persuaded ourselves that Englishmen of the present dayare such a nervously excitable race, that the onlychancefor theirdescendants isto keep themothers in a state of coma. The fathers, we think are incurable.

-Davies, (Sarah) Emily
  Paper read at the  Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences, published in Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women1860^1908.