"I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers."

-- Mike Oldfield

“I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.”

Source : Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.
“Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.”

Source : Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
“When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.”

Source : "Canadian author David Gilmour sparks furore over female writers" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2013.
“When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.”

Source : "The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman". Ben Lynfield, The Nation, December 14, 2006.
“Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece”

Source : "Quotes of the year - Part 1: The daftest quotes from players, managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2008.
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.”

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