Quotes Of The Week

The Age

Saturday September 27, 2008

Compiled by Lucy Battersby

"People around the world are looking at this and saying 'Holy Toledo'."

-- FRED BERGSTEN, director of the Peterson

Institute for International Economics, on the US Federal Reserve's $US700 billion bail-out.

"'We've got to get it right' - a banality used to justify endless studies, reviews, commissions, and other mechanisms to fob off any serious challenge to government inaction - regardless of the lost jobs, delayed investment, lagging productivity or stunted economic growth."

-- PHIL BURGESS, departing group managing director, public policy & communications at Telstra, expressing his frustration at the pace of business in Australia.

"I have to confess I vote for ... I support in Australian Rules the Roosters, who of course aren't in the Grand Final ... Sorry, the Swans. And the Roosters in Sydney

in Rugby League."

-- MALCOLM TURNBULL, federal Opposition Leader, mixing up his birds and football codes on Radio National on Tuesday morning.

"Action by the Congress is urgently required to stabilise the situation and avert what otherwise could be very serious consequences for our financial markets and for our economy."

-- BEN BERNANKE, US Federal Reserve chairman, to a Senate committee.

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