Sound bites: April - June 2002
You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived.
quoted as the preface to the Order of Service at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
You have to be careful what you wish for out loud in the White House. After
wondering how some bookshelves would look in a corner, the next day there were
shelves in the very place.
Laura Bush, American First Lady
Your Majesty, Mummy...You have been a beacon of tradition and stability in the midst of profound, sometimes perilous, change.
at the Buckingham Palace pop concert to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee
The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million-pound
confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced
little pots.
Joan Collins, British actress
People always said that if you put a red rosette on a monkey it would get
elected in Hartlepool.
campaigning for mayor as H'Angus the Monkey
Stuart Drummond, British call-centre worker and mascot of Hartlepool United football team
Not in my garden.
reply to Paul McCartney when he asked if the Jubilee pop concert could be repeated next year
They are better than us, which is the difference.
after England's defeat by Brazil in the football World Cup
Sven Goran Eriksson, England's Swedish football manager
Extraordinary. But let's see if he wins a world championship and then we can
compare him to me.
on Ronaldo
Pele, Brazilian footballer
We have a country which loves ideology, and we need pragmatism.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Prime Minister
I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country
seeks to defend.
Dan Rather, American television anchorman
It's a fantastic feeling to be a Brazilian tonight.
after winning the football World Cup
Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
In many respects, this case appears to be eerily similar to the accounting hocus-pocus that occurred at Enron.
on the WorldCom collapse
Billy Tauzin, American Republican politician
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street,
that's concentration. I didn't grow up playing at the country club.
Serena Williams, American tennis player
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