“In our planet, only weaponised states are friends. Strength respects strength.”
APJ Abdul Kalam, former head of India’s nuclear missile programme, who was elected India’s 12th president last week (The Times, 19 July)
“This is a triumph for Aussie surfboard diplomacy.”
New South Wales Senator Ian Cohen, after jumping into the sea with a surfboard ahead of a freighter to protest against the transport of plutonium fuel pellets near Australian waters (Reuters, 22 July)
“In no other country is it seriously contended that organic farming and genetic engineering can’t coexist. It is extraordinary that the idea has taken root here.”…
