Quotations

Sound bites: July - September 2005

This is a hard tour and hard work wins it. Vive Le Tour.

Lance Armstrong, American cyclist, on winning a record-breaking seventh Tour de France

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.

George W. Bush, American president, to FEMA director Michael Brown after Hurricane Katrina

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.

Jacques Chirac, French president, on the British

How much blood must be spilled? How many tears shall we cry? How many mothers' hearts must be maimed?

Marie Fatayi-Williams, Nigerian mother of Anthony Fatayi-Williams, killed in the London bombings of 7 July

I wanted to be a tramp.

Ringo Starr, English rock and pop drummer, on his boyhood ambition

I noticed the sea was all frothy like the top of a beer. It was bubbling.

Tilly Smith, age 11, collecting an award from the Marine Society for helping to save 100 tourists from the tsunami of December 2004 by remembering her geography lesson

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