“Hungry for a life-and-death issue? Tobacco regulation offers a singular moment to show the vision and leadership the voters yearn for.” - Talking Sense on Tobacco, editorial - published 3/04/2008 at nytimes.com
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"What followed the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was quite unexpected. It had not been anticipated; it had not been planned for; and, as soon became clear, it proved unmanageable."– ”Bad Days in Basra: My Time as Britain's Man in Southern Iraq” by Sir Hilary Synnott - review by “Politico's Bookshop” admail – politicos.co.uk – Feb 2008
"Everyone wants to eat like an American on this globe. But if they do, we're going to need another two or three globes to grow it all." - DANIEL W. BASSE of the AgResource Company, a Chicago consultancy – published 9/03/2008 at nytimes.com
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination" - Ronald Reagan - from Iain Dale's selection of '500 of the Most Witty, Acerbic & Erudite Things Ever Said About Politics' - seen in “Politico's Bookshop” admail – politicos.co.uk – Feb 2008
“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” – George W. Bush – 2003, from “The Bush Who Got Away” by JACOB WEISBERG – Published NYTimes.com - January 28, 2008
"Brown hadn't got a clue what he was doing" - Tim Congdon, a banking historian at the London School of Economics, about changes pushed through by Gordon Brown in 1998 – from “Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park'” - telegraph.co.uk - 28/12/2007
“After six months in office, Brown has comforted rather than confounded the skeptics. He has alienated both Washington and Brussels, an unusual achievement. Far from breaking with Blair's rule by coterie — sometimes known as “sofa government” — he has proved a dour centralizer: sofa rule without the sofa.” - Roger Cohen, (New York Times 20 December 2007) describing Prime Minister Gordon Brown
