"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002"
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"