Quote #43

He, as Foreign Minister, was swanning around the United States of America with Shirley MacLaine or trying to crash one of Ted Kennedy's parties...and he was trying to play statesman...while he swanned around, and then he made a cowardly attack upon the former Prime Minister before slinking back into his cabinet.

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  1. It is the first time the Honourable Gentleman has got out from under the sunlamp.
  2. You've been in the dye pot again, Andrew.
  3. We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos.
  4. [Most politicians have] brains like sparrows' nests - all shit and sticks.
  5. The Leader of the Opposition is more to be pitied than despised, the poor old thing. The Liberal Party ought to put him down like a faithfu…
  6. What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him.
  7. I suppose that the honourable gentleman's hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness.
  8. The principle saboteur, the man with the cheap fistful of dollars.

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