"A new buoyancy is evident everywhere."

"A new buoyancy is evident everywhere."
Tung Chee-hwa
Hong Kong chief executive, welcoming the Chinese New Year of the monkey.
"Beards? Bandannas? What next? "
Daniel Robin
National secretary of France's largest union for high school teachers, reacting to a government minister's call to ban beards and bandannas from classrooms along with Islamic head scarves.
"The head of the mother snake was chopped off ... but now we have to chase the baby poisonous snakes."
David Gaddis
The new top American drug agent in Colombia, regarding microcartels specializing in individual sectors of the narcotics business.