Job satisfaction
"I know I can do more for lifting human standards ... than in just about any other job on this planet." — Mike Moore at a meeting of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce on August 18, one year since his appointment as director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
Directionless
"It's a continuum. I don't think there is a single third way. I think you accept the problem, but how you deal with it becomes your own personality." — New Zealand Labour cabinet minister Steve Maharey, August 22.
Terrorism
"I'm a free-trader. I will work to end terrors — tariffs and barriers — everywhere across the world." — George W. Bush, Republican presidential candidate, addressing an election campaign fundraiser in Texas, August 22.
The strugglers
"This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers, and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead." — George W. Bush again.
Cowardly
"[S11's actions are] the resort of cowards when they don't have the support of the Victorian public to then try and arc it up by having one-off violence." — Victorian Premier and Labor leader Steve Bracks quoted in the August 26 Age.
Damned community!
"The Democrats decided ... we would politely decline offers of free tickets and corporate hospitality at the Olympics as community expectations are that most politicians should pay their own way ... We are grateful ... to those corporations that have offered us hospitality however we are sure they will appreciate the sensitivity of the situation." — Australian Democrat leader, Meg Lees.