Sweden

Certainly the country practised forced sterilisation of women deemed unfit to be mothers until as recently as 1975. Branded low class, or mentally slow, they were kept in Institutes for Misled and Morally Neglected Children, where they were eventually “treated”. In 1997, the government admitted that 60,000 women had been sterilised.

Lawyers

Like Hollywood actresses, lawyers need to believe they're noble and courageous to help them forget that they are corporate drones doing soul-destroying work, which mostly consists of making photocopies.

Rahm Emmanuel

"Rahm Emanuel is very good at making enemies and not very good at making friends," Mr. Massa said.

Reporters

Each year they come here, from Cambridge and Ithaca and New Haven, young and eager social critics seeking nothing more than an honest day's wage for an honest day's condescension, and perhaps a decent squab pate in white wine reduction.

Olympic medals

My 5-year-old son was very interested in the medals awarded at the Olympic Games and soon had them memorized: the gold, the silver and the Bronx.

Enver Hoxe

>Enver [what's his name] of Albania - New Year's greeting in 1968:
>"This year will be worse than last year but better than next year"