Virtual monarch
"We all know she doesn't really exist any more, but we can't quite bring ourselves to tell her or admit it." — New Zealand Herald columnist Brian Budman, on Queen Elizabeth II.
Perish the thought!
"I would have thought that it would be inappropriate to envisage that a bunch of bureaucrats would be making policy on behalf of an elected government." — Treasury executive director Dr Martin Parkinson commenting on the revelations that the Treasury department has lost $3 billion speculating on international currency markets.
Must be an election coming up
"US aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing a picture of President George W. Bush, witnesses said on Thursday." — February 14 Reuters report.
Don't mention the war
"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific." — George "The Crusader" Bush speaking to Japanese parliament, February 18.
From Green Left Weekly, February 27, 2002.
Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.