Loose cannons

Discriminating

"I think all of them." — Yossef Harish, Israeli cabinet legal adviser, when asked before the Israeli Supreme Court how many Palestinian residents of the occupied territories are terrorists.

Under control

"The government is not going to be doing anything other than saying it's a problem and trying to meet it." — Paul Keating on unemployment.

Nomination

"Police & the community work together to establish a safer environment by reducing violence, crime and fear. This involves upholding the rule of the law, & ensure that authority is exercised responsibly." — Officially, a Sydney CES notice of jobs with police; our nomination for the Nobel Prize for Fiction.

That's a relief?

"I don't find the level of personal corruption or dereliction of duty is any greater in public life than it is in the business community in Australia ..." — Liberal frontbencher John Howard.

Winds of change

"A lot of things will change with Mr Clinton ... new presidents bring new trends in everything from food to clothes." — Paul Marshall, Eleven AM, Channel 7.

Business is business

"... the city of Shenyang, long a moribund center of state industry, is bustling with new private business, from trading companies to prostitution." — An enthusiastic Bulletin report on private enterprise in China.

From GLW issue 88