Robert Manne Quotations

We're just lucky that somebody walked by there when there was a thaw and his body was exposed. If not, he could have stayed there for hundreds of thousands of years.

With what's been accomplished to date, they could be out by this fall.

Care is a very different word from love,

I feel pretty confident it's all going to come together for a successful identification,

Kind of against all odds, they soldier onward. Eventually it will come up to put up or shut up time, but they do seem to be making progress.

I think they have substantial challenges energy costs, pricing power. And I think there are some questions as to whether they can be the instigator or the target of consolidation.

I think they have substantial challenges -- energy costs, pricing power. And I think there are some questions as to whether they can be the instigator or the target of consolidation.

I think they have substantial challenges ù energy costs, pricing power. And I think there are some questions as to whether they can be the instigator or the target of consolidation.

It is a mystery that has been buried and only now that the ice and snow have melted, can we unravel that mystery.

We've done it in Tibet, and we've done one in Greenland.

The pressure is hardly off. It's just as much pressure as it has been, it's just without the albatross of bankruptcy hanging over it.

Those guys are looking for a quick turnaround and are willing to take the relatively high risk that goes along with it.

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

We don't have to go to a glacier in Tibet to find a missing airman, ... We've got some of them in our own backyard.

We want to be able to understand what happened to him fully, ... And we also want to be able to answer whatever questions the family may have about 'exactly what happened to my son, my brother.'

There's a fine balance between keeping the pressure on and pushing people over the edge. The judge has to have a light finger on the trigger.

They've got a back-to-the-future approach. The company historically did very well when it was risk averse. They flew for the military, flew for wholesalers, flew for people who paid up front.

They performed pretty well on the operating line, ... It was on revenue growth, not on cost cutting.

It's absolutely harder to find seats that airlines are willing to let go for no incremental revenue.

It's not anything that anybody needs, frankly. The airlines don't need it. Consumers don't need it.

It kind of belies the contention that there is a shortage of domestic capital available for the airline industry.

Children need most not trained, expert, professional care, but the passionate partiality of parental love. That love is not reproducible, just as to be a mother is not reproducible. Caring is. Mothering cannot be bought or sold, or reproduced by the marketplace. But caring can.

If Continental does expand, we'll see a me-too response. It's great news for travelers - more low prices.

You can understand the frustration, but all it does is hasten the day of the last paycheck. It's more bravado at this point than it is rational thought.

The injuries are so substantial, he didn't feel anything. He died immediately.

These are just unbelievable cases. A 60-year mystery locked in ice: It's just unbelievable.

To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.