1. Perot once described Washington, D.C., as a town…

   with “a broken arm.”
   full of people who “shoot off Roman candles.”
   “just like my Texarkana backyard.”
   just “like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement.”
   whose “alabaster city gleams, undimmed by human tears.”

2. What reason did Perot give for leaving the U.S. Navy?

   He was sick of “godless…drunken tales of moral emptiness.”
   Too much of a job and not enough of an adventure.
   Chronic seasickness.
   Tired of hanging around with a “bunch of plain people.”
   It was a “brutal, dirty, thankless job.”

3. What did Perot predict would happen with the passage of NAFTA?

   It would “increase the chances that the Japanese would try to export sushi and data chips.”
   It would “turn Washington into a town where they tell fairy tales, have little Chinese fire drills, and play Lawrence Welk music.”
   It would “not affect me at all.”
   It would “worsen the water quality in Little Rock. That place is full of $40-a-month flophouses with spiders runnin’ up the ceiling and brown water comin’ outa the kitchen sink.”
   It would “create a giant sucking sound as American jobs went to Mexico.”

4. What is a favorite Perot-ian phrase?

   “These people work for us.”
   “The deficit is a wave we can’t ride.”
   “PACs are politically asinine crooks.”
   “Playing defense, not offense.”
   “It’s just that simple.”

5. Journalist Robert Fitch once called Perot “America’s first _______.”

   nouveau riche billboard
   welfare billionaire
   pint-sized robber baron
   tele-populist
   zealot tycoon

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