Quotes in the news 2/25/04

"For too many years, taxpayer money has been chopped to ribbons by the gold-plated rotors of this overpriced boondoggle." -- Keith Ashdown, vice president of policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the Army's annoucement that it was abandoning its Comanche helicopter program.

"It's a lot like you're going down the highway and you can set your own speed limit." -- Richard Miller, a policy analyst with the Government Accountability Project, on a shelved government proposal that would have let contractors at federal nuclear facilities pick which safety rules they should follow.