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Your support makes all the difference.Grab more hills. Whatever is seized will be ours. Whatever isn't seized will end up in their hands.
Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon explaining his policy on the West Bank
The free market has done more to liberate women than all the political posturing in the feminist movement.
Tory MP Teresa Gorman
They can get stuffed. They can get on with their catering. I will get on with the eating.
MP Tommy Graham, who has been expelled from the Labour Party, on hearing that he had been dropped from the Commons Catering Committee
We have no intention of allowing ourselves to be swallowed. We are far too indigestible.
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown on his party's new-found co-operation with Labour
I did it in a direct and straightforward manner and I believe they did, yes.
President Bill Clinton, responding to a Japanese housewife who asked how he confessed the Lewinsky relationship to his family, and whether they had forgiven him
It is a great day for justice and a sad and embarrassing one for MI5 and the British government. They should stop trying to persecute me.
Ex-MI5 agent David Shayler as French authorities decide he cannot be extradited to Britain
I do not exaggerate. If we withdrew we would return to paganism in large parts of our diocese in a very short space of time.
The Rt Rev Robert Hardy, Bishop of Lincoln, arguing the case for part- time priests to assist in areas where the Church of England is overstretched
You wish to control everything the media writes about the people you work for. That is the wish of every PR man, but that is not how the free press works.
Piers Morgan, 'Mirror' editor, declining to give apology for stories about princes in reply to Stephen Lamport, the Prince of Wales' private secretary
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