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- When the fire engine was late due to red tape, one senior citizen remarked caustically, "Rules rule".
- An environmentalist caustically remarked that in today's urban life trees are an amenity.
- In August, when Democratic operative Jim Jordan was asked how war might affect the November elections, he replied caustically, "You mean when General Rove calls in the air .