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The WP and LAT attribute the quip to Gary Bauer.
Actually, it was a quip pro quo--a retort Prudie could not resist.
Although the quip and the wisecrack are usually quite shallow, George S. Kaufman, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, managed to turn the wisecrack into an art form.
William Safire uses his space to retail an Arlen Specter quip about the tension between the FBI director and his boss: "The Department of Justice cannot survive half slave and half Freeh."
Two terms that come close to being classic wit are quip and wisecrack , both of them Americanisms.