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Current Issue • March 1to March 14, 2007  •  No 158

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Quotes of the week  

Iran has obtained the technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran’s move is like a train . . . which has no brake and no reverse gear.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran

 

They don’t need a reverse gear. They need a stop button.

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, apparently not aware a “brake” is a kind of “stop button.”

 

This is 1938. Iran is Germany and it is about to arm itself with nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Knesset opposition leader

 

We must emphasize to the Europeans that Iran . . . is working on a missile with a 4,000-kilometre range, which would put London within their aim.

Reeuven Pedatzur, military columnist, Haaretz newspaper, Tel Aviv, picking up on an old theme used in the build up to the US attack on Iraq, if memory serves

 

There is no ambiguity whatsoever on the issue of sovereignty. Shall I go through the whole dictionary of synonyms?

André Boisclair, Parti Quebecois leader, referring to a thesaurus

 

It seems utterly illogical and unethical that, in adjacent wards, one doctor is struggling to save the life of a baby delivered at 23 weeks while another is aborting a baby of the same age.

Stuart Campbell, consultant at Create Health Clinic, London, after the birth of the world’s most premature baby, Amilia Taylor, apparently surviving after birth at 21 weeks

 

How can Canada set its sights on human rights, reconstruction, and economic development if its view of the country is narrowed to the turret sight of a tank?

Michael Wallace, political science professor, UBC, after Canadian forces deployed heavily armoured Leopard tanks to Kandahar, Afghanistan

 

If they want to move me, they’re going to have to snap on their latex gloves, move in there like CSI Miami and pack me up.

Garth Turner, former Conservative MP, now Liberal MP, responding to pressure from his old caucus to vacate his Parliament Hill office

 

It’s not viewed as a threat because the numbers are small and once we get past the war on terror and all the negative images, then it will continue to spread.

Lawrence Mamiya, religion professor, Vassar College, on the spread of Islam among black Americans

 

Stop the presses!

 

An enterprising opposition finance critic might read the independent audit of the BC Rail deal, the part where the merit of moving $2 billion in un-used tax loss and depreciation credits to the buyer for $250 million could not be assessed because of lack of information provided by . . . Gary Collins, then-BC Minister of Finance and subject of police stake-outs during meetings with potential buyers at cozy downtown restaurants.

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