Quotes Of The Week

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-1999
Quotes Of The Week

SYDNEY, Dec 31 AAP - Quotes of the week:



"The process of trying to get Australia ready for Y2K has been like trying to find
10,000 needles in a bloody big haystack ... even if we have found 9500 needles, there
is still going to be a lot left." - Senator Ian Campbell, the federal government's Y2K
co-ordinator.



"If anyone can handle this Peter can. And he will." - Anthea Mulakala, whose husband
Peter Ward was on board an Indian airliner hijacked to Afghanistan.



"They don't want him in their country. If that is correct, we don't want him in our
country either." - Lord Janner, chairman of Britain's Holocaust Educational Trust, calling
for alleged Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs to be deported from the UK.



"We cannot simply chop off someone's hands. It would be done only with sufficient proof."

- Chief Minister Abdul Hadi Awang on a proposal to introduce Islamic law to a Malaysian
state.



"There is no way to sell this price hike with a smile on your face." - National Tax
and Accountants' Association president Ray Regan on how taxi drivers will pass on the
GST to their customers.



"It is a sad day for justice when a magistrate remands a pregnant 13-year-old in custody
merely because she was 20 minutes late on a curfew." - Barrister Scott Lynch on his client
being held by police after breaking a court imposed curfew.



"The only opening line that never works is the non-existent one." - Flirting convention
organiser Rich Gosse advising Australians on how to pick up.



"I'd hate to be in a nursing home when a nurse taps me on the shoulder and says 'it's
gone'." - Sydney-to-Hobart winning yacht Nokia's skipper Michael Spies, confident that
his race record will stand for a long time.



"I'm still waiting to wake up I reckon. I think I might be dreaming all this." - Fast
bowler Brett Lee after claiming 5-44 in his Test debut against India.



"With the cricket we've played this summer I would back us against any side in just
about any era." - Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh, after leading his side to a
sixth consecutive Test victory.



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