@columhead = Sick
"If a drug is good for people, but it doesn't make a profit for the drug company, our system has a problem." -- Dr Stephen Jurd, head of drug and alcohol services at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, on the unavailability of a drug used to treat alcoholism.
@columhead = And racist
"Australia is being a tad singled out on this issue because we are a gutsy, up-front country." -- Foreign minister Alexander Downer, being only a tad sillier than usual as he tries to explain the government's objection to a human rights clause that the European Union includes in all its international economic agreements.
@columhead = Model
"Australia should not be perpetually apologising for sins of the past because it had been a model of tolerance since European settlement, the Prime Minister said yesterday." -- Sydney Morning Herald, January 27. Being a racist means never having to say you're sorry.
@columhead = Priorities
"US policy remained the effort `to develop institutions' that `can support an evolution toward democracy and capital markets." -- US Secretary of state Madeleine Albright, quoted in the January 28 Sydney Morning Herald.
@columhead = Lots of practice?
"I think people were ready to accept a tough budget last time, but to turn around now and say we have to find billions of dollars more ... I mean, how could Treasury get it so wrong?" -- Coalition backbencher Alex Somlyay on the federal government's latest "black hole".
@columhead = Of course they have no intention ...
"Talking to the federal coalition about a GST is like talking to the pope about Catholic theology." -- Treasurer Peter Costello.
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