"It [the BBC] has been doing tremendously well, of late,
beating ITV at its own game of peddling trash to the masses
[...]." The Economist, May 11, 2002, p. 16
"'And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union -
or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to
call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give
4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your
life - of service to America.' President Bush, on his community-service
initiative'" Newsweek, April 22, 2002, p. 6
"HAIR SCHRÖDER - Headline for a Times of London
editorial commenting on German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's
tonsorial credibilty gap.'" Newsweek, April 22, 2002,
p. 6
"WHEN Arizona became a state in 1912, the first man it
sent to the United States Senate was a loquacious cowboy
called Henry Fountain Ashurst. In his first address to the
Senate, Mr Ashurst boasted that Arizona was 'poised to become
a veritable paradise.' Only two things were needed, he said:
'Water, and lots of good people'. According to legend, a
senator from New England responded, 'If the gentleman from
Arizona will forgive me, that's all they need in hell.'"
The Economist, July 15th, 1999
"The very essence of the frontier experience lies in the
extent of its resources, and when resources are boundless,
why conserve them or even utilise them efficiently? The
principal goal is to exploit them as quickly as possible,
then move on. It is this frontier attitude to resource utilisation
that lies at the heart of much capitalism, and which presents
such a major challenge to conservationists today. In this
sense, the legacy of the American frontier is still very
much with us." Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An
Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
(New York, 2001), p. 292
"In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in
high school to offering remedial English in college." writer
Joseph Sobran on the state of the American educational system,
quoted from: The Victoria Advocate, December 31,
2001, p. 13A
"Reversal of Fortune: From Wirtschaftswunder to Wirtschaftsblunder."
quoted from: Newsweek, February 11, 2002, p. 1
"Europe has a problem - and its name is Germany. " quoted
from: The Economist, January 19th, 2002, p. 9
"If we all think alike, then none of us thinks very much.""
Walter Lippman, American Journalist
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the
way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants
and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in
the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma
Gandhi
"A dirty mind is a constant joy." author unknown, quoted
from Shakespeare's Bawdy, by Eric Partridge (London,
3rd ed., 1968), p. 6
"Nobody with a brain the size of a kumquat stays in Texas
in August." Texan author Ruth Pennebaker on George W. Bush's
vacationing in the Lone Star State last month, quoted from
Newsweek, September 10, 2001, p. 6
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the
way parents obey their children ." The Duke of Windsor (formerly
Edward VIII), quoted in Spotlight, 8/2001, p. 7
"You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British
Journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's
no occasion to." Humbert Wolfe, quoted in: Alexander Chancellor,
Some Times in America (London, 2000), pp. 243 f.
"Even those of us, like me, who know Bush is no dummy are
beginning to wonder." Richard Cohen in The Washington
Post, reprinted from The Guardian Weekly, July
12, 2001, p. 28
"... the broader trend: tolerance of, and respect for,
minorities has become an ersatz majority of its own, deeply
intolerant and disrespectful of those who disdain its pieties."
The Spectator, 14th July, 2001, p.16
"As Henry Kissinger has observed, there now seem to be
plenty of procedures to punish the wicked, but dangerously
few to constrain the zeal of the score-settling rigtheous.
" The Spectator, 4th August, 2001, p.33
"...(to real toffs, the royal family are foreign arrivistes)."
The Economist , June 30th, 2001, p.33
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife,
but they're doing the same thing." HRH Prince Philip, the
Duke of Edinburgh, quoted from Newsweek, June 18,
2001, p.6
"LBJ used to say of J. Edgar Hoover and others that it
was better to have them inside the tent pissing out than
outside pissing in. But the Senate Republicans let Jeffords
in the tent and he still wound up pissing all over them."
Mark Steyn in The Spectator, June 2nd, 2001, p.19
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943, quoted from TIME
Magazine, June 4th, 2001, p.6
"The fact that in the midst of the mass slaughter the Prime
Minister personally intervened, without even telling his
agriculture minister, to save the life of a calf whose media
career was interfering with New Labour's news management
seems to sum up the entire Blair project: all for the cameras
and rather little for the voters." The Spectator,
May 26th, 2001, p.
"Socialist of the week 'Obviously it would be better if
people didn't have to pay any tax at all'." Tony Blair,
the prime minister, quoted from: The Ecomomist, May
26th-June 1st, 2001, p.42
"PATRIOTISM = prime example of the Ameri-adage that anything
worth doing is worth overdoing ." Jane Walmsley, Brit-Think
- Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide (Edinburgh,
1988), p. 82
"Some things can transcend an ecclesiastical upheaval -
and a pint of beer in a pleasant village inn is high on
the list." John Timpson, Timpson's English Country Inns
(London, 1995), p. 114
"The United States has a Republican candidate bothered
by awkward questions about past drug use, a squeaky-clean
Democratic candidate and an open-minded lame-duck incumbent."
Jorge G. Castaneda in NEWSWEEK, September 6, 1999,
p. 35
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