Or whatever you're having
"Yeltsin: drunk with power" — Headline in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Must be a big demand for that
"Mr Yeltsin is increasingly consulting astrologers and other mystic healers, including a bizarre 'channeller of bio-energy', the Sunday Times reported in London. One of his favourite advisers is Ms Yevgenia Davitashvili, a mystic who claims she can revive dead flowers, the paper wrote." — Sydney Morning Herald, February 13.
Sick
"There are many ways of not being there. I could abstain or be sick." — Susan Harben, lesbian and Labor candidate for Bligh in the NSW elections, asked what she would do as an MP if the ALP demanded she vote against a measure favouring gays or lesbians.
Total support
"Col has the total support of the association and beyond this censure of his intemperate remarks, no further action will be taken." — The senior vice-president of the NSW Forest Products Association, on Col Dorber, the association's executive director, who in an ABC television interview advocated physical assault on anti-woodchipping protesters.
Not at all like Yeltsin
"At his core, there was no flinching from what he had always believed, in terms of the virtues of the revolution and the virtues of communism." — An amazed James R. Gaines, Time managing editor, after meeting Fidel Castro.
Not lower than a scab-herder
"When former prime ministers are selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go." — WA Premier Richard Court on the newest Australian soap opera star.