Val Kilmer Quotes
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. He was speaking to an audience which was very concerned about the survival of fish stocks in the Midwestern rivers and lakes and others who fished for a living or sport. Limiting fishing rights hurt the latter group and not doing so further diminished the fish stocks which were already in peril from over fishing and other factors. Bush wanted to say that there were opportunities for humans to fish and the fish stocks to thrive if there could be compromises. But the phrase that came from his mouth missed the mark and produced another gaff in his collection.
As difficult as it is for us to believe today, this case was about the right of a married couple to use birth control. States, under religious pressure from Roman Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants, made abortion and birth control a crime. In this case a druggist was convicted and given a jail sentence for filling a doctor’s prescription for condoms. The wife would die if she had to bear another child. The Supreme court ruled that the right to privacy trumped the right of the state to criminalize “danagerous” or “immoral” activity when it came to sex and procreation. Since then, as today, there is a vocal minority of Americans who want to go back to making abortion and birth control illegal.
Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984) and Real Genius (1985), as well as the military action film Top Gun (1986) and the fantasy film Willow (1988).
