Loose cannons

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Great new ideas #573

"Labour's task is to identify with the hopes and aspirations of individual men and women across the country, so that they in turn identify with us." — From Agenda for Change, the British Labour Party's blueprint for losing the next elections to one of the most unpopular governments in the country's history.

Great plans for world peace #762

"Our agenda in the '90s is to win the economic competition, to win the peace. We must be a military superpower, an economic superpower, an export superpower. We must save and invest so that we can win." — US President George Bush elaborating his dream of turning the trade war into World War III.

Definitely not paranoid

"They'll say I'm strange. They'll say I'm a feral abacus. I'll have to live with that. I have a simple-minded determination to make sure this country reaches its full potential." — Liberal leader John Hewson.

Mr Credulity, 1992

"They're not evil men. They're not lying to get your vote." — Maine "credit counsellor" Terry Delaire on US presidential candidates George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Strange, that

In a recent poll, "business and industry are seen as doing little to help the environment and as being untrustworthy sources of information about environmental issues". — Financial Review, September 17.

The real thing

"When I think of Indonesia — a country on the equator with 180 million people, a median age of 18 and a Muslim ban on alcohol — I feel I know what heaven looks like". Coca Cola president Donald R. Keough.

The free market at work

"Despite a months-long consumer shortage, hundreds of tons of milk are being fed to cows because milk suppliers fear last week's surge in prices will discourage demand, Russian television said yesterday. There were even fears that farmers will be forced to slaughter some prized dairy cows and dump milk because of a sudden drop in orders." — AAP dispatch from Moscow.

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