Quotation for Today, Sunday May 31

Goff’s problem is he plays situational politics too aggressively.

It is still hard to believe the breathtaking way in which the former foreign affairs minister joined the Labour attack against so-called American bagmen at the 2005 election knowing full well that US investor Julian Robertson – who was the main subject of the foray – had made huge financial contributions to support former Prime Minister Helen Clark’s campaign for a free trade deal with the US.

Fran O’Sullivan in NZ Herald 30 May

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