“Just because everyone can’t do everything doesn’t mean someone shouldn’t do something.” — Joel Salatin, author of Folks, This Ain’t Normal
Runner up: “Ambassadors are expected to dip their vocabulary in a rich coating of multisyllabic vague—a pudding of nicety and nuance. It should never take less than a week, a thesaurus and two of the characters from National Treasure to solve the mystery of what an ambassador is really trying to say.” — MacLean’s humour columnist (and speechwriter for Liberal PM Paul Martin) on the Mexican ambassador’s expression of outright indignation that Mexicans should require a visa before visiting Canada.