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Friday 01 October 1993 23:02 BST
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the barmiest of them all? - John Smith, suggesting what John Major should ask

I feel like the Birmingham Six. I'm free again - Tony Benn after being voted off Labour's national executive

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I think the United States and the free world ought to hang in there - Bill Clinton, reiterating his support for Boris Yeltsin

She has fallen from the dizzy heights of press adoration to the bottom of the Daily Telegraph's political sincerity league - David Blunkett on Virginia Bottomley

I think that in this day and age you have to be more anarchic - Steve Wright, Radio 1 disc jockey

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