Loose cannons

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Fascinating bore

"In a boring way, he's fascinating" — comment on Prime Menzies John Howard by "one of his closest advisers", reported in the August 4-5 Australian Financial Review.

Prefers being hostage to financiers

"I would imagine that if a government looks as though it was sort of hostage to independents and therefore you have no predictability on economic policy, that... would reduce the confidence of international financial markets in Australia" — the Prime Menzies, commenting on the possibility of large numbers of independents being elected to the next federal parliament.

Liberal true believers

"We believed that every problem could be solved by the unrestrained operation of market behaviour and some naive notion that trickle-down economics would solve every problem" — the Prime Menzies, commenting on his government's first term of office.

Not like the idea of immaculate conception

"Politics and business cannot be the monopoly of men, but it is absurd to think that there should be parity [between men and women] in distributing jobs" — Catholic Archbishop of Paris Monsignor Jean-Marie Lustiger.

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