« Dining with Jeanette
Two polls, two stories »

Campaign quotes

Sunday August 28th, 2005. 2:26 pm by frog

Waihopai from the air

Rod and Andrew Wilkie visited the Waihopai spy base in Marlborough this morning. The picture accompanying this post is an aerial shot of the base (thanks Wikipedia), which allows New Zealand to form part of the global US-UK-Canada-Australia-NZ intelligence system. A former British Army major, who came to meet Andrew, noted wryly:

We’ve got the balls, but the pricks are in Washington.

Another quote from the campaign trail comes courtesy of Trevor Mallard. In expressing Labour’s coalition preferences, and riffing on Helen Clark’s “last cab off the rank” remark with respect the Maori Party, Mallard said:

I’d rather ride my bike than catch that cab.

frog says

Posted in Campaign | by frog | Sun, August 28th, 2005 |

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 28th, 2005 at 2:26 pm and is filed under Campaign. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can email this article to a friend. Printable version of this article. You can leave a response, but trackbacks are not allowed.

3 Responses to “Campaign quotes”

  1. Craig Ranapia Says:
    August 28th, 2005 at 4:31 pm

    “I’d rather ride my bike than catch that cab.”

    Be careful what you wish for, Trevor…

  2. peterquixote Says:
    August 28th, 2005 at 4:32 pm

    lik these balls and bikes stuff fwwog is this like quite
    symbolic i spose,

  3. bjchip Says:
    August 28th, 2005 at 8:05 pm

    Geez, you know what bike riding is supposed to do to balls, don’t you?

    respectfully
    BJ

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.