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Saturday 17 July 1999 23:02 BST
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As far as I am concerned the only proper place for lawyers in the NHS is on the operating table.

Frank Dobson, Health Secretary, on the growing litigation in the Health Service

Name dropping is so vulgar, as I was telling the Queen last week.

Lord St John of Fawsley

The process should not be crashed, it should be parked.

David Trimble, outside Ulster Unionist headquarters, as his party boycotted a day's proceedings in the peace talks

If this man is really a billionaire why isn't he ironed and valeted?

Style guru Peter York describing the beleaguered Michael Ashcroft, treasurer of the Conservative Party

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