Hands up
"Labor women have a great deal of difficulty in getting preselected for safe seats because the boys always put their hands up for them." — Anne Scott, seeking ALP preselection for Oxley but likely to lose out to former Queensland premier Wayne Goss.
Sickening
"Immediately he [Prime Menzies John Howard] went into hospital his opinion poll ratings, which have been sliding all year, went up four points." — Columnist Alan Ramsey in the July 30 Sydney Morning Herald.
Holding their own
"About half the members of President Bill Clinton's second term cabinet have assets of more than $1 million ... about the same proportion of millionaires as Mr Clinton had in his first cabinet." — International Herald Tribune, July 25.
Now he tells us
"It would be a wonderful thing if we turned Parliament House over to oil company moguls and parliament went back to the old building." — Former PM Malcolm Fraser, whose government initiated the new Parliament House, complaining that it is too luxurious and expensive.
Market leaders
"We kill more Americans with our own mines than we do anyone else." — General Alfred Gray, former commandant of the US Marine Corps, quoted in a report which found that most US casualties of mines were killed or wounded by mines made in the United States.
Another defence program
"They knew when the tests were, and chose not to warn the population, and they located the test site in the west knowing there would be fallout over the whole country." — A US scientist, on a report that US nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s resulted in milk contaminated with radioactive iodine being consumed in large parts of the country.