Fed: Quotes of the Week

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2007
Fed: Quotes of the Week

SYDNEY, April 6 AAP - Quotes of the week:



"It is already tarnished, it is as simple as that." - Retired swimmer Ian Thorpe on
his reputation, after results of a drug test which showed unusual levels of naturally
occurring hormones were leaked to a French newspaper.



"We were trying to make decisions and we simply couldn't see the extent of the threat,
and I can tell you that scared the hell out of me." - Queensland Premier Peter Beattie
about the tsunami warning to Australia triggered after a powerful earthquake in the Solomon
Islands on Monday.



"Some villages are completely wiped out." - Fred Fakari, chairman of the Solomons National
Disaster Council.



"John Howard and Peter Costello are turning into that cranky uncle." - Opposition Treasury
spokesman Wayne Swan.



"It just strains credibility to believe that bringing Mr Hicks back now and putting
him in jail until conveniently just before Christmas and putting a gag on him didn't have
domestic political considerations in Australia." - Former Victorian attorney-general Jim
Kennan rejecting federal government claims it played no part in David Hicks' sentencing
deal.



"Senator Ferris was someone who entered public life for all the right reasons. She
wanted to make a contribution to public life and she delivered for her community." - Opposition
Leader Kevin Rudd following the death of Liberal senator Jeannie Ferris.



"People have got into a sense of very false security that the (HIV issue) was somehow
20 years ago and nothing could be further from the truth." - Bill Bowtell, the former
national president of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and one of the original
instigators of the grim reaper ad campaign.



"How could we subject our precious son to what was ahead? With all the love we had
for Matti we ... we released him from any more pain and suffering." - Margaret Sutton
who along with her husband Raymond was placed on a five-year good behaviour bond for killing
their blind, disabled son.



"Please use her memory to strive for excellence in your own goals with the same degree
of organisation that Morgan had. Love life in a healthy way as Morgan did." - Robert Morgan,
father of iceskater Morgan Innes who was killed in the Sydney Harbour RiverCat crash,
to her classmates.



"In seeing this, I really am embarrassed to be an Australian because we haven't done
enough." - Ian Thorpe after witnessing the plight of Aborigines first hand on a visit
to Arnhem Land.

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