“And I'm going to give it to you if you hold your breath just for a moment … I can smell the uranium on it as you lean towards me.”

— David Lange

Commonly misquoted as "I can smell the uranium on your breath", as in A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
During the Oxford Union Debate, 1 March 1985.
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