Prepare for war
"The defining challenge of the '90s is to win the economic competition. You will hear two visions of how to do this. Theirs is to look inward and protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward, to open new markets, prepare ourselves to compete, to restore our social fabric — to save and invest — so we can win." — US President George Bush explaining that North Americans don't already "have" enough.
In the wings
"As the troopers of the 18th cavalry took back the streets of Los Angeles street by street and block by block, so we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country." — Pat Buchanan, Bush's defeated rival for the Republican presidential candidacy.
Archetypal family
"I don't think someone in the Duchess's position, as a member of the archetypal family which the royal family is, is in a position to do the kind of things that she is doing with Mr Bryan in the pictures we carried today." — The British Mirror's version of family values and how they should apply to Sarah Ferguson.
Clarification
"However you define family, that's what we mean by family values." — Barbara Bush elaborating one of the Republican Party's major planks in the US elections.
Name of the game
"Many developers are looking around for street names, so we could make cash out of it. That's part of the entrepreneurial theme of councils these days." — Hornsby councillor Steven Pringle on his suggestion that the council should sell naming rights to streets in the city for around $10,000.
Philosophy
"The success of the Steelers and the way the community here has reacted to it has provided a we-can-succeed confidence for all of us ... If we can win at rugby league, we can win at making steel." — BHP Port Kembla steelworks chief executive Grahame Parker, explaining how the Illawarra Steelers making the Winfield Cup finals makes up for mass unemployment in the region due to a cut of around two-thirds in the steelworks' work force over the past decade.
Tweedledum and Tweedledum
"Australians earning $25,000 or less will be worse off regardless of who wins the next election, and both major parties' y a marginal impact on unemployment, according to an economist at the Australian National University." — Sydney Morning Herald, September 2.