Charlie Wilson, local civic activist:

“This is a concerted effort, perpetrated by Inside Vero, a whole group of rag tab liberals that are attempting to unseat people that are trying to sell Vero Electric.

“The entire thing is a organize fraud and people should know it.  If it weren’t for me telling on them, they would be fooling a lot of people.”

 

Ron Ziegler, Press Secretary to President Richard Nixon:

“…I am not attacking the press at all.  I have never done that in this position, but I am making a very direct observation about the Washington Post and suggesting that this is a political – and saying that this is a political effort by the Washington Post, well conceived and coordinated, to discredit this Administration and individuals in it.”