The above quote is from Leona Helmsley (remember her?), but it could have come from former presidential contender, U. S. senator, and Vietnam "war hero" John Kerry - the guy who managed to marry two very rich women (one at a time).
The yacht (see above), named Isabel, was paid for by his second very rich wife, the woman who was married to former (and now deceased) Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, and inherited his vast ketchup fortune. According to newspaper reports, Kerry's second wife, Teresa, paid $7,000,000 for the yacht, which Kerry had built in New Zealand (which didn't do much to help out the starving yacht building industry in his home state of Massachusetts). Not being satisfied by stiffing the yacht building industry at home, though, Kerry decided to dock his new toy in Rhode Island to avoid a fortune in Massachusetts sales and excise taxes. That's quite a guy: always concerned about the welfare of the folks back home. Of course, there is nothing wrong with trying to save on taxes when you can, but this is John Kerry, who has railed against outsourcing and tax avoidance by others. There's a name for such people.
The yacht, by the way, is a 76-foot sloop with two cabins, a pilot house with wet bar, and a cold wine storage (French no doubt), according to published reports.
Several Blogs were upset enough by all this that they took to calling Kerry a hypocrite (imagine that), and you can read a couple of the good ones at the Enterprise Blog and Moonbattery.
