SYDNEY—Quotes of the week:
"I tell you I put on a brave face but I was shattered, there's absolutely no other word for it, shattered." - Anti-asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton on news he has the terminal asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.
"I will not be bullied by Mr Cousins." - Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, on news former Howard adviser Geoffrey Cousins will campaign against him over Tasmania's planned pulp mill.
"I think I'll take a belting in the opinion polls." - Kevin Rudd in the wake of revelations he visited a strip club while in New York to represent Australia at the United Nations in 2003.
"I believe this is an extremist cult and sect." - Labor Leader Kevin Rudd, on the Exclusive Brethren religious group.
"Girls at their age need their mother most - how will they cope?" - Sharon, the younger sister of murdered Perth lawyer Corryn Rayney, describes the impact of the tragedy on her 10- and 12-year-old nieces.
"We are Australians, this is where we come from." - Jewish Holocaust Museum executive director Bernard Korbman on recent anti-Semitic attacks in Melbourne.
"People are locked in their own little worlds and servicing their own needs. They have lost a sense of social responsibility, putting other road users at risk purely out of their own selfishness." - AAMI psychologist John Cheetham, on a survey showing drivers are becoming more aggressive.
"He needs help, not me. Him. Don't you think he would, a man running around with a teddy bear, I mean, it's a bit stupid, now, isn't it?" - Melbourne great-grandmother Rachel Williams, after being attacked by a man believed later seen carrying a teddy bear.
"I have come to the conclusion that she was a devious moron." - Controversial Australian academic Germaine Greer on the late Princess Diana.
"We were saying to them, `We're not any louder, you're just older.'" - Hoodoo Gurus Brad Shepherd on the band's ageing fans.
"Well it's better to be silent than to be a fool." - To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, who rarely speaks in public, to an audience at an awards ceremony in the US.
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