Stop press
"Despite the corporate disasters of the past few years, Malcolm Fraser's 1983 claim that Australians would be better off putting their money under the bed if a Labor government came to power has not proved to be correct." — Max Walsh in the Sydney Morning Herald, August 29.
What's best for some
"Under a best-case scenario the underexploited and mismanaged resources of Russia, the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will offer high returns for foreign investors." — Walsh again.
Market research
"Is there a value in screen violence?" — Headline in the September 3 Bulletin.
Back to feudalism!
"... the aberrations of Stalin ... were implicit in the Leninist State. Indeed, there were sociologists in Marx's century who insisted his theories were inherently despotic ... But modern tyranny can be traced back further, to the Enlightenment and for all its liberation, the French Revolution." — Editorial in the Australian, August 26.
Ought to know
"The only people who now joined political parties were 'mad, lonely or ambitious'." — Telegraph-Mirror summary of a joint lecture on federal parliament by three ex-senators (one ALP, one Liberal, one Democrat).
Wrong electorate
"In New York I'm a hero. Not so in Morawa or Moonee Ponds." — Treasurer John Kerin on reaction to the budget.
Which party?
"It looks to us like there is a fair bit of number counting going on and there are rumours running around that Keating might challenge." — Opposition leader John Hewson.
Rather than poor ones
"Public schools should sell their education to rich foreigners, according to a report commissioned by the Federal Government." — Sun-Herald, September 1.