"..we wouldn't force a winner to be in a position to have to think about something that had no relevance to the evening." - Anthony Citrano

"If we need to start issuing guidelines, we might do that. It hasn't been a problem in the past." - Anthony Citrano

Leslie Unger, communications director: "Our assumption is that people who are there covering the event are there to cover the event in the aspects of what is going on that night." Obama and Bush shouldn't have tried to become President of the United States. They should have tried to become President of the Academy - their lives would have been a lot easier. - John E. Bredehoft

Oh, and for the record, I don't wear Dior. - John E. Bredehoft