Saturday 26 August 2017

Quotes of the Week


“TRUMP’S USE OF DECEPTION and untruthful affidavits, as well as the hiding or improper destruction of documents, dates back to at least 1973, when the Republican nominee, his father and their real estate company battled the federal government over civil charges that they refused to rent apartments to African-Americans. The Trump strategy was simple: deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over.” [Kurt Eichenwald writing in Newsweek, 31 October 2016]

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“About the best way you can sum up Scott Morrison’s week is that he began it by accusing the ALP of raising taxes and he ended it by introducing a bill to raise taxes.”  [Greg Jericho writing in The Guardian, 20 August 2017]

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“The problem is that Kim Jon-un is largely the same personality type as Trump — both are paranoid, narcissistic and have huge egos…..We’ve never really had leaders like that on both sides before.” [Dr Genevieve Hohnen, Lecturer in Politics, Edith Cowan University, quoted at news.com.au, 15 August 2017]


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