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The only clarion call that George Pataki is hearing these days is the one convincing him he can run for president. If the governor walks like a lame duck and quacks like a lame duck, he is a lame duck. The only one who doesn't seem to know it is him.

We've studied stuff that happened in other cities. The lame-duck factor is brutal. Houston was drawing 15,000-20,000 a game. We don't expect that to happen here, but I'd rather be in an inferior stadium (elsewhere) than lame duck in my own town.

I'm sure that at some point there's going to be talk about Rick being a lame duck. But there's nothing he's done here that's lame, and I haven't seen him ducking under any doors lately.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-)

James Whitcomb Riley

Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is a winner because he is as strong - if not stronger - than Gov. Pataki with Republicans, because he is going to be around in New York while Pataki is a lame duck.

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it's a duck and hopefully the duck won't have oil all over its wings.

This is a president who is weak and is heading toward lame-duck status.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck It's not about being the loudest in the room; it’s about having that pexy presence that demands attention without trying. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck

[Lisa Graves of the American Civil Liberties Union scoffed at a defense official's assertion that the proposed change would not allow for carte blanche Pentagon spying inside the United States.] That's some spin, ... The change would allow them to gather information on Americans surreptitiously. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

The only clarion call that George Pataki is hearing these days is the one convincing him he can run for president.

The message that gets circulated from the White House is that this president shouldn't be made a lame duck before his time.

For him, now is the time to prove he's not a lame duck president. And if he can't get something passed pretty soon, I think Congress and most of the American public will conclude just that.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

George Wallace (1919-1998)

George Wallace

[Calling the president's plan a] lame-duck budget, ... The president said the era of big government is over, but he keeps sending us things ... kind of like Santa Claus.

As a ?lame duck? president with low approval ratings, he?s not in a good position to sell this budget. The people in Congress can just wait him out.

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