"[...] Mr Dean confirmed his own caricature with his
unfortunate 'I have a scream' speech." The
Economist,
January 31st, 2004, p. 11
"If they can show live war on the news, I think Janet
can show a breast. " - E-mail comment as to the BBC's
question if Janet Jackson's "outrage" is justified.
This and more is to be found at: BBC
UK News, online edition
"Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture
of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report,
I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply,
sense." Paul Johnson in The
Spectator, 31st January 2004, p. 34
"In America's political lexicon the term 'liberal'
is a synonym for 'wimp' [...]." The
Economist
"I wouldn't kick President Bush out of my bed, although
I do think he needs some sassy highlights." Carson
Kressley, fashion expert on "Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy", quoted from The
Economist
"The Bush administration quietly shelved a proposal
to ban a gasoline additive that contaminates drinking water
in many communities, helping an industry that has donated
more than $1 million to Republicans." The
Victoria Advocate, Febr. 16, 2004, p. 6B
"Why don't you write books people can read?"
Nora Joyce to her husband, the writer James Joyce - quoted
from Spotlight, January 2004, p. 7
"[...] one reads that Minority Leader Tom Daschle,
of South Dakota said, 'I look forward to having further
discussions with the majority leader (Bill Frist, of Tennessee)
with regard to taking the next legislative step with regard
to the Omnibus bill. ... I do think it is important, as
we said yesterday, for the Senate to focus its attention
on some of the issues we cited yesterday as real policy
concerns. There were procedural concerns about how we got
here, but the policy concerns are the ones that can be addressed
and can be fixed. I certainly want to assure my colleagues
we will look for other vehicles and other ways to address
each of these issues over the course of the next several
weeks and months. I will have more to say about that later
in the day.' - [...] an environment [the U.S. Senate] where
such redundant ramblings pass for speech [...]." quoted
from: Centre
Daily
"God save us from chairmen of the BBC who watch television!"
Christopher Bland, former chairman of the BBC, quoted from
The
Spectator,
14 February, 2004, p. 8
"He [Howard Dean] spoke out for the millions of Americans
who feel bullied by the brutal right: bullied by the Republican
politicians who decry wasteful spending on welfare while
stuffing their own supporters with pork, bullied by conservative
talk-show hosts who claim to be 'fair and balanced' while
advancing a rigidly partisan agenda." The
Economist, February 12th, 2004
"The common faults of American language are an ambition
of effect, a want of simplicity and a turgid abuse of terms."
James Fenimore Cooper, in "The American Democrat",
quoted from: Bill Bryson, Made in America (London,
1998), p. 91
"[...] the Bushes don't have a reputation as the Corleone
family of the Republican Party for nothing." The
Economist, Febr. 19, 2004
"Like father, like son; like Atwater, like Rove; no
one spreads sewage quite like the Bushes." Harold Meyerson
in The
Washington Post, Thursday, February 26, 2004; Page A21
"'Democracy,' Foreign Minister [of Tunisia] Ben Yahia summed
up to me, 'is not instant coffee.'" Georgie Anne Geyer,
quoted from: uExpress
"This is Gandhi as Rocky." Richard Corliss in
a review of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ",
quoted from TIME Magazine, March 1, 2004, pp. 60
f.
"How many points does a three-point field goal account
for in a basketball game?" Test question, on the final
exam for Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball
at the University of Georgia, quoted from TIME Magazine,
March 15, 2004, p. 15
"I now understand perfectly how generations of Germans
have been made to feel since the end of the Second World
War, always guilty, always Nazis, always to be watched."
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The
Independent on the occasion of the terror bombings
in Madrid
"[...] in Texas, where gun control means holding your
rifle steady [...], quoted from The
Economist, March 3, 2005
"[...] in today's Republican Party, [...] failing
to find the solution to nuclear proliferation in Leviticus
mark her [Condoleeza Rice] as some kind of far-left radical.",
quoted from The
Washington Post, online edition
"I am not going to give you a number for it because it's
not my business to do intelligent work." US Secretary of
Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, when asked about the number of
insurgents in Iraq. quoted from The
Washington Post, online edition
"Foreign names and revolutionary concepts are still
disliked, [...] drink is still beloved." The
Economist on the British national character
"Camilla's out of the National—wedding switch forces Chas'
old nag to miss the big race." The Daily
Star on the postponement of the royal wedding,
quoted from Slate
Magazine
"THE Pope has been buried and Charles and Camilla
have wed. Today the General Election of 2005 can finally
get underway." quoted from The
Sun
"They [George Bush and his iPod] are both white, with a
limited capacity, famous for making strange noises and live
in the pockets of businessmen." Caitlin Moran in the Times,
quoted from The Guardian: The
Wrap
"From what I saw, a bucket of cold water should always
be kept at hand." Richard Cohen in The
Washington Post about John Bolton, George W. Bush's
appointee for ambassador to the United Nations
"To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, the Wall Street Journal
criticizing DeLay is like L'Osservatore Romano, the official
Vatican organ, criticizing the pope." E.J. Dionne Jr.
in The
Washington Post
"Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - who also saw service
in the German army - is nicknamed The Panzer Cardinal and
God's Rottweiler because of his rigorous defence of the
faith." quoted from: The
Daily Mirror, online edition
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