Fed: Quotes fo the week

AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2004
Fed: Quotes fo the week

SYDNEY, Aug 13 AAP - Quotes of the week:

"It's becoming more like an X Files episode." - Opposition Leader Mark Latham on the
fate of the US free trade agreement (FTA) being in a surreal zone of politicking.

"Seeing we're into TV [allusions], I've done a CSI on this, a very detailed CSI." -
Prime Minister John Howard's response.

"I think we have to ask the question, these doddering daiquiri diplomats, would they
have done any different?" - Queensland National Party MP De-Anne Kelly on the foreign
policy repudiation signed by 43 ex-defence force chiefs, diplomats and departmental heads.

"History will judge Bush's invasion of Iraq as an unadulterated error." - Labor backbencher
Tanya Plibersek on what she heard Liberal candidate Malcolm Turnbull tell a candidate's
forum at Bondi in Sydney's east.

"If you were Shakespearean about it, you would say this was the stuff of tragedy."

- Tasmanian federal MP Duncan Kerr on Governor Richard Butler being a victim of the death
of former Premier Jim Bacon.

"This termination payment may end up being a termination arrangement for the premier
as well... How dare the premier dip into the taxpayers' pockets to fix up a mistake of
his own making." - Greens Senator Bob Brown on former Tasmanian governor Richard Butler's
$650,000 ex-gratia payment.

"If the price of petrol continues to go up, we'll have to dust off our saddles and
start riding camels again." - Labor MP for Murray-Darling Peter Black on soaring oil prices.

"The great historical tradition of the Olympics is that all warfare stops when the
Olympics is held ... that applies for political warfare as well as military warfare."

- Opposition defence spokesman Kim Beazley on how it would be unforgivable for Prime Minister
John Howard to call an election during the Olympics.

"Being me is a full-time job." - Supermodel Linda Evangelista during her Down Under
visit to promote Australian fashion designers for retailer David Jones.

"If anyone can do it, I can." - Track star Jana Pittman on possibly competing at the
Athens Olympics after undergoing keyhole surgery on her injured knee.

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