Best Almost Standing Up for Your Beliefs"I believe in open government. And I believe in open task forces. And most of them have been." --Paul Schell

Best Self-Awareness"My name's Grant Cogswell. I co-authored the monorail initiative.... I'm running because we're going to build the monorail." --Grant Cogswell

Best Ego"I've got two doctorates. I'm not a fool."--Stan Lippman

Best Put-Down"Richard [McIver] is only in the neighborhood as a 'property pimp.'"--Jerome Wilson

Best Sound Transit Math"It's a billion--roughly a billion--a billion three. It's a significant amount of money."

--Greg Nickels

Best Use of PreWar Slang"If people think it's going to work--were they snookered? Were they duped? They've been bamboozled. It won't work. It can't work."--Michael Preston

Best Use of Syllogism"Initiative 63. If I were in favor of it, which I am, would I vote to kill it so that it wouldn't get killed later? That sounds very curious to me."--Michael Preston

Best Command of the Facts"Those drunks started out as kids. We all started out as kids." --Jan Drago

Best Sweeping Analogy"What I got a suspension for was the Exxon-Valdez version of responsibility. I am the executive director. I have a bingo manager who's stealing money." --Michael Preston

Best Bill Clinton"There's a whole new world out there.... It's a new era. The dawn of a new age."--Greg Nickels

Best Image"I've held Margaret Pageler's hand and jumped over the cliff with her too many times now." --Jan Drago