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GRAPEVINE, Page 19Stop Me If You've Heard This One
By JOHN GREENWALD
Flexing his rhetorical muscles before the
Vice-Presidential debate, DAN QUAYLE explained what he called
the essence of the Republican campaign. "If you give a person
a fish," he said, "they'll fish for a day. But if you train a
person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime." Besides misquoting
the proverb (it's ". . . feed him for a day" and ". . . feed him
for a lifetime"), Quayle was stealing a page from an unlikely
book: Democrat Michael Dukakis recited the lines often during
his 1988 campaign. Not to worry. The saying has been a favorite
with orators since the ancient Chinese.