91.   After Gov. George W. Bush of Texas flunked a pop quiz on foreign leaders earlier this month from a Boston television reporter, politicians are on the lookout.

92.   After taking Monday night off, politicians were at the forefront of convention activity Tuesday night with the speakers displaying the split personality of the party.

93.   Ahead of elections next spring, the elimination of secret funds has become a bandwagon that few politicians have been able to resist.

94.   All good politicians are congenital optimists.

95.   All politicians are not the same.

96.   All politicians are in the heat transfer business.

97.   All politicians are self-centered and quickly insulate themselves from anyone embarrassing, even an old pal.

98.   All the while I felt astonishment and disappointment that this politician would be presiding in the office of the prime minister at all.

99.   British and French politicians are genuinely angry at the taking of their soldiers as hostages.

100.   Budget-cutting invariably requires bitter medicine, and few politicians are willing to risk re-election to administer it.