They were "faithful in the class-conscious sense," a sane acquaintance remarks.
After long silence, Bush pops up with radiantly sane but somehow shaky remarks on current politics.
Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey made a beaut of a slip when he remarked, "No sane person in the country likes the war in Vietnam, and neither does President Johnson".
Yet Ravitch bristled when I relayed a remark about her that Whitney Tilson had made to me: "Any sane person would ask, 'What can we learn from the success of the best charter schools?,' rather than attack all of them".
In his last courtroom remarks Oct. 2, Kosenko asked the judge to consider him sane.
Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage, remarked, "The Marchioness is known to have views that are diametrically opposed to most sane people.
Syndicated radio show host Laura Ingraham, a long-time conservative critic of Jeb Bush, said after Monday's remarks that "you can't still think that going into Iraq, now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do".
"Such an idea never entered my head," he remarked in a letter, "nor is it likely to enter the head of any sane person".
Since Colin Powell, the United States's secretary of state, viewed by the French as a sane and lonely moderate in the administration, had been at the same meeting, Mr De Villepin's remarks amounted to a diplomatic ambush for no apparent reason.
