Quotes

From the January 2008 issue

“I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”
—Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), quoted in The Boston Globe, October 11

“Eleven violent protestors were arrested together with one 12-inch knife, one pointed thin iron rod, a pair of scissors, five catapults, marbles, nuts, fighting peacock flags, headbands bearing the picture of US eagles, cards of Level II English course conducted at the American Centre, illegal gambling tickets and anti-government leaflets.”
—New Light of Myanmar, a government-owned Burmese newspaper, October 1

“I am at the head of a state that has not once passed a balanced budget in 25 years. This can’t go on.”
—French Prime Minister Francois Fillon to Corsican farmers demanding aid, September 21

“The only thing the government ever told you that was true is ‘Smoking is bad for you.’ ”
—Filmmaker John Waters at an American Civil Liberties Union event in Baltimore, right after declaring, “We have to fight for cigarette ads,” September 17

“Don’t tase me, bro!”
­—University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, on being forcibly removed by police from a speech by John Kerry, September 16