Animal Farm has been subject to much comment in the decades since these early remarks.
He had already taken pains to deny his earlier remarks about ghosts in space.
"The answer we had worked out in advance was let's put the past behind us," said the Mayor, laughing about his earlier remarks.
"It's not that I was lying or misleading anyone," he said of his earlier remarks.
Those earlier remarks of Eddie's were beginning to nag at me.
The captain didn't have the heart to remind him of his earlier remarks.
His reasoning is that, as he said in earlier remarks, "I can do it best."
Let's go back to my earlier remark about trying to get some interior views of the ship.
But he, too, saw a glimmer of hope in the Mayor's early remarks.
It had the same gentle arrogance of his earlier remarks.