Nowadays, almost all kids will be offered cannabis. [Parents should not] make it a big fuss. It’s part of their learning, maybe like alcohol or tobacco was when parents were their age.
J C Suris, one author of a Swiss study of cannabis use among high schoolers published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
It’s okay in this country to be sexist. It’s certainly not okay to be racist. I think if Barack Obama had been attacked for two hours—well, I don’t think Barack Obama would have been attacked for two hours.
Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 vice presidential candidate, after Hillary Clinton endured a two-hour attack in a live debate
The spectre of illness hangs over them because of the enormous quantity of dead animals in the water.
Miguel Angel Valdivia, Tabasco State official, Mexico, on conditions in flooded regions
You name it, and somebody, somewhere behind a desk will quickly find a regulation that bans it.
Michael Nicholson, columnist at The Daily Express, bemoaning the death of Guy Fawkes Day celebrations involving fireworks
It hasn’t worked. So, with all due respect, I’ll do it my way.
Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, to reporters asking her questions about her lack of preparations for a Mideast peace conference
You want to shape Chinese decisions, to dissuade China from choosing military or other destabilizing solutions to their problems.
Robert M Gates, US Secretary of Defense, kind of reflecting in a way the whole world’s attempted approach to his own country
Turkey is slowly pinching Abdullah Ocalan in the prison.
Murat Karayilan, top Kurdish rebel commander
Senator Clinton is voting like a hawk in Washington, while talking like a dove in Iowa and New Hampshire.
John Edwards, senator and candidate for Democratic nomination for US president
It’s amazing how quickly you acclimatize to the idea of robots driving in cities.
Michael Montemerlo, Stanford University roboticist developing robotic vehicles for the US military
It’s less of a big deal for out-of-work writers to picket. Not working is what they’re doing already.
Frank Biondi, former president and CEO of Viacom, commenting on divisions in the ranks of striking Hollywood writers
A Greek fisherman is a sailor and there is nothing ridiculous about their, or Mr Newman’s, cap, when worn out of doors. I agree that the robes of a British peer would be absurd if worn everywhere, as Mr Newman does his sailor’s cap.
Conrad Black in a schoolyard spat with Peter C Newman, this silliness being played out in that pretend-newspaper, The National Post
The surge of US troops in Baghdad is succeeding . . . [But] US military efforts are [mistakenly] judged primarily by the benefits they bring to the defeated enemy, rather than to Americans.
Daniel Pipes, columnist, National Post. The excerpts are the first and last sentences of a 1,000-word essay the removal of the middle 962 words of which reveal a certain truth among war’s supporters
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