They Said What?

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England), Sept 27, 2008

"Without immediate action by Congress, America could slip into a financial panic" - President George Bush, in his televised broadcast to the American people.

"They said we were bad for the youth of Israel, and I think that was a mistake - I don't think we were that bad" - Sir Paul McCartney, referring to the Israeli ban on the Beatles in 1965.

"To a bystander like me, those who made pounds 190 million deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of a very strong capital base, and drove it into the arms of Lloyds TSB, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers"

- The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.

"Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing reality, power and agency to things that had no life in themselves. He was right about that, if about little else" - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

"I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting," - singer Meat Loaf who was born on September 27, 1951.