function AutoQuote(Serial) // generates random quotes { if(Serial) { // specific quote } else { QuotePoint=new Date() QuoteMonth=QuotePoint.getMonth()+1 if (QuoteMonth<10) {QuoteMonth='0'+QuoteMonth} QuoteDate=QuotePoint.getDate() if (QuoteDate<10) {QuoteDate='0'+QuoteDate} QuoteMonthDate=QuoteMonth+QuoteDate switch(QuoteMonthDate) { // specific dates case '9999': QuoteNumber=0; break; default: // random quote DeciSeconds=QuotePoint/100 choices=77 QuoteNumber=Math.floor(choices*(DeciSeconds/choices-Math.floor(DeciSeconds/choices))); break; } } // enable to test latest //QuoteNumber=choices-1 switch(QuoteNumber) { case 0: Quote="“The legally registered, fully insured motorist who falls foul of a speed camera is the ultimate easy case.”"; Source="Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
Shadow Home Secretary
2003-05-07"; break; case 1: Quote="“I hate cars. If I ever get any powers again I’d ban the lot.”"; Source="Ken Livingstone
Sunday Times
21 November 1999"; break; case 2: Quote="“Speed cameras.....are fatuous instruments of oppression .....designed to exercise power and impose subservience purely for its own sake.”"; Source="Auberon Waugh"; break; case 3: Quote="“Labour's plans to tax and penalise car use are leading Britain into a former Soviet-style regime.”"; Source="Professor Garel Rhys, Head of Automotive Economics at Cardiff Business School"; break; case 4: Quote="“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”"; Source="Thomas Jefferson"; break; case 5: Quote="“Cameras should be bright. I have no time for the argument that cameras should be hidden. I'm interested in prevention.”"; Source="Ken Williams
Chief Constable, Norfolk Police
2001-08-02"; break; case 6: Quote="“Most of the accidents I've attended were caused by bad driving, not speed.”"; Source="PC Gary Baldwin, Traffic Division
Thames Valley Police"; break; case 7: Quote="“The criminal justice system has got it all out of kilter. We treat the motorist like a pariah and the burglar like a victim.”"; Source="Glen Smythe
Metropolitan Police Federation"; break; case 8: Quote="“They're a lot less anal than the British when it comes to speed.”"; Source="Eddie Irvine, extolling the virtues of the Italian Police
Formula 1 magazine
May 2001"; break; case 9: Quote="“Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure.”"; Source="Robert McNamara"; break; case 10: Quote="“Driving at high speeds results in better concentration and awareness.”"; Source="John Watson"; break; case 11: Quote="“...we have one of the best road safety records in Europe...”"; Source="David Jamieson, Transport Minister"; break; case 12: Quote="“Only 9% of fatal accidents were caused by speeding. Where it is safe to go faster, it is the right thing to do.”"; Source="Pietro Lunardi, Italian transport minister"; break; case 13: Quote="“Everybody sees speed as the main factor involved in accidents but usually it is drivers' misjudgements.”"; Source="Sgt Brian Rogers, Cheshire Police"; break; case 14: Quote="“The point is that often speed limits are broken without people having accidents. What we have to focus on is where speed is actually causing accidents.”"; Source="Steve Mortimore, Assistant Chief Constable, Avon and Somerset Police"; break; case 15: Quote="“I fear that if we prosecute more and more motorists and people have a perception that we are being unreasonable then there will be a backlash.”"; Source="Michael Todd, Chief Constable
Greater Manchester Police"; break; case 16: Quote="“Exceeding the speed limit related to just 60 collisions per year out of a total of 1,900 collisions in the Durham area — that’s about 3%.”"; Source="Paul Garvin, Chief Constable
Durham Constabulary, 2003-11-23"; break; case 17: Quote="“The normally careful and competent actions of a reasonable individual should be considered legal.”"; Source="Arizona Department of Transportation"; break; case 18: Quote="“Using the revenue from speeding tickets to raise money for the police is not what the law is there for, it is contrary to the independence of the police.”"; Source="Sir John Stevens
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
2001-08-20"; break; case 19: Quote="“Speed cameras don't reduce casualties — they are just for revenue generation.”"; Source="Chief Inspector Paul Gilroy
Northumbria Police"; break; case 20: Quote="“We ought to be altering driver behaviour, rather than adopting a blanket speed camera approach that doesn’t effectively tackle the problem.”"; Source="Paul Garvin, Chief Constable
Durham Constabulary, 2003-11-23"; break; case 21: Quote="“It has been very convenient (for governments) to go along with the belief that it's all about bad behaviour, because you don't have to invest in so much infrastructure.”"; Source="Ian Johnston, Accident Research Centre Director, Monash University, Australia"; break; case 22: Quote="“I believe we have lost a tremendous amount of goodwill from the public.”"; Source="Mike Hedges
Chief Constable
South Yorkshire Police
2004-02-20"; break; case 23: Quote="“There is a place for them (speed cameras) but I think we have lost the argument on that.”"; Source="Mike Hedges, Chief Constable
South Yorkshire Police, 2004-02-20"; break; case 24: Quote="“There is no correlation between levels of vehicle emissions and asthma incidence"; Source="Dr Kenneth Calman
Government Chief Medical Officer"; break; case 25: Quote="“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”"; Source="Thomas B. Reed 1886"; break; case 26: Quote="“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.”"; Source="Winston Churchill"; break; case 27: Quote="“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”"; Source="Martin Luther King, Jr."; break; case 28: Quote="“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”"; Source="Justice Louis D. Brandeis
US Supreme Court, 1928"; break; case 29: Quote="“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”"; Source="Edmund Burke 1770"; break; case 30: Quote="“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”"; Source="John F. Kennedy 1963"; break; case 31: Quote="“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”"; Source="Groucho Marx"; break; case 32: Quote="“I am also struck by the degree to which our lives are becoming ruled by a truly absurd degree of politically correct interference.”"; Source="HRH The Prince of Wales"; break; case 33: Quote="“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”"; Source="Mahatma Gandhi"; break; case 34: Quote="“We have an environmental movement that is run by people who want to fight, not to win.”"; Source="Dr Patrick Moore
founder member of Greenpeace"; break; case 35: Quote="“Prosperous free cities are always congested places. The last time I saw really empty streets and deserted motorways was in East Germany before the Wall came down.”"; Source="Ferdinand Mount, Sunday Times"; break; case 36: Quote="“The [Labour] Government's [anti-car] measures will take away what the car has given — mobility with freedom to travel as and when people please.”"; Source="Professor Garel Rhys, Head of Automotive Economics at Cardiff Business School"; break; case 37: Quote="“We are in danger of alienating the public. We must not lose public support. People are becoming cynical about what is going on with speed cameras.”"; Source="Peter Joslin, former Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police"; break; case 38: Quote="“Any criminal justice system, to be effective, has to be seen to be fair. It just cannot be right when people feel that our response is disproportionate.”"; Source="Paul Stephenson
Chief Constable, Lancashire Constabulary
2004-03-11"; break; case 39: Quote="“...in many people's eyes, road humps have become hated symbols of bullying officialdom...”"; Source="Oxford Mail Editorial 2002-11-30"; break; case 40: Quote="“The speed cameras issue is not a point of principle, it is a fact that they are pointless.”"; Source="Paul Garvin
Chief Constable of Durham Constabulary
2004-06-16"; break; case 41: Quote="“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”"; Source="Nikita Khrushchev"; break; case 42: Quote="“No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.”"; Source="Andrey Illarionov
Economic Adviser to President Putin
2004-05-19"; break; case 43: Quote="“Speed cameras have made the police the enemy of the motorist.”"; Source="Un-named West Midlands police officer in a letter to the Police Federation newspaper, March 2004"; break; case 44: Quote="“The attempts of environmentalists to bolster the myth of human-induced ‘global warming’ by the cynical, nay gleeful, exploitation of non-equilibrium climatic events is downright immoral.”"; Source="Prof. Philip Stott, Univ of London, Nov 2000"; break; case 45: Quote="“You must recognize that some things that are legally right are not morally right.”"; Source="Abraham Lincoln"; break; case 46: Quote="“Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science.”"; Source="Dr Martin Keeley, University College London"; break; case 47: Quote="“The Kyoto protocol was a political agreement. It was not based on science.”"; Source="Dr Harlan Watson
Senior US negotiator
UN Climate Change convention
2004-12-08"; break; case 48: Quote="“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”"; Source="George Orwell"; break; case 49: Quote="“The only people who would be hurt by abandoning Kyoto would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming.”"; Source="Professor Kirill Kondratyev,
Russian Academy of Sciences"; break; case 50: Quote="“Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.”"; Source="Andrey Illarionov, 2004"; break; case 51: Quote="“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.”"; Source="Elizabeth Cady Stanton"; break; case 52: Quote="“Safe drivers are getting fed up with being penalised for exceeding a speed limit by a very narrow margin.”"; Source="Caroline Chisolm
Brake"; break; case 53: Quote="“Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.”"; Source="Martin Luther King Jr."; break; case 54: Quote="“You are not alone in this county in being unhappy with … speed cameras. Some people feel it is a form of taxation which is turning law-abiding citizens … into criminals. It is not a very satisfactory state of affairs.”"; Source="Judge Richard Bray, Northampton Crown Court, 2005"; break; case 55: Quote="“Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.”"; Source="Nigel Lawson, Prospect Magazine, Nov 2005"; break; case 56: Quote="“An arbitrary limit allows sloppy policing. Officers don't have to determine if there has been dangerous driving, as they just ticket everyone.”"; Source="Paul Taggart, Hawke's Bay Today, 2006-01-12"; break; case 57: Quote="“Galileo will deliver the tools national governments need to introduce wide-scale road charging.”"; Source="BBC 2005-12-28"; break; case 58: Quote="“We need to get drivers 'on side', wanting to play their part in road safety and not alienated by blanket measures which are needed to control the irresponsible minority but end up affecting us all.”"; Source="Nigel Mansell, President of the IAM, July 2006"; break; case 59: Quote="“We may see the day when the police are rooted out of their panda cars, put back on the beat and told to concentrate upon crime rather than bullying motorists.”"; Source="Sir Patrick Moore OBE CBE FRS FRAS"; break; case 60: Quote="“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”"; Source="Upton Sinclair"; break; case 61: Quote="“British road safety was the best in the world. Now it is institutionally incompetent at the highest level.”"; Source="Paul Smith, Safe Speed, 2006-08-30"; break; case 62: Quote="“Being a scientist means being a skeptic.”"; Source="Dr Gerrit van der Lingen
Wellington, New Zealand
March 2006"; break; case 63: Quote="“… those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.”"; Source="Henrik Svensmark
Director of the Centre for Sun-Climate Research
Danish National Space Centre. October 2006"; break; case 64: Quote="“What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.”"; Source="Vaclav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic
2006-10-20"; break; case 65: Quote="“Climate models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.”"; Source="Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail
2006-10-30"; break; case 66: Quote="“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.”"; Source="William Pitt
Prime Minister
1783-11-18"; break; case 67: Quote="“… the BBC’s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”"; Source="Jeremy Paxman on climate change
January 2007"; break; case 68: Quote="“Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.”"; Source="Vaclav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic
2007-02-09"; break; case 69: Quote="“Environmentalism is a way of introducing new forms of statism, new forms of masterminding human society from above.”"; Source="Vaclav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic
2007-03-12"; break; case 70: Quote="“The IPCC is not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming.”"; Source="Vaclav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic
2007-03-12"; break; case 71: Quote="“It's ludicrous to try and police 30 million motorists with automated machines. We need real living people, not roadside robots.”"; Source="Owen Patterson MP
Shadow Minister for Transport
2007-06-15"; break; case 72: Quote="“If people within Formula 1 want to be seen to do something for the environment, they should stop racing. I think there`s a lot done for appearances as far as the environment`s concerned.”"; Source="Damon Hill
Autocar
2007-06-22"; break; case 73: Quote="“Al Gore is one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about.”"; Source="Dr. William Gray, Atmospheric Science Dept
Colorado State University, 2007-04-07"; break; case 74: Quote="“Our trip opened my eyes to how insane the rules are in Britain — CCTV cameras everywhere, congestion charge — a ludicrous nanny state.”"; Source="Ewan McGregor
October 2007"; break; case 75: Quote="“The biggest hurdle to effective traffic management and a safer environment continues to be interference by well-meaning but misinformed citizen groups and politicians.”"; Source="Michigan State Police
May 2008"; break; case 76: Quote="“You know as well as I, the global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.”"; Source="Dr Jack Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut
Jan 2009"; break; case 77: Quote="“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools.”"; Source="Douglas Bader"; break; default: Quote="“Click for more quotes"; Source="ABD"; break; } document.writeln('
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