"Request permission for takeoff."
"My view on the preservation of the Burns Building? It's undecided ... Why do you ask?"
"Crocodile tears."
"That was the most exhausting council meeting I've ever endured ... I wore my finger to the bone pressing that **!!#@# button."
"Two things ... it's not house-broken and it has one hell of an appetite."
[Eugene Whelan returns as Minister of Agriculture in new Liberal cabinet.]
"The marriage broker."
"It's a modern day phenomenon ... it's called the mortgage rate syndrome."
[New Liberal government allows interest rates to "float".]
"It's with a great deal of pride that we present to you this great city's symbol of friendship."