Major replied, "If the tax burden is so high, why does the right honorable gentleman propose to increase it still further?"
These honorable gentlemen avoid the crux of the matter.
The "right honorable gentlemen" of the Labor opposition were howling like a football mob.
Just a tiny flaw, mind you, otherwise he is as fine and honorable a gentleman as one could hope to meet.
But there has been no change in the contempt in which you honorable gentlemen seem to hold me.
Offering a bribe is hardly the mark of the honorable gentleman you claim to be.
"The right honorable gentlemen would throw away the security of our defense system too easily."
They are, I assume, those of an honorable gentleman?
By and large, these are intelligent, and I would suspect, honorable gentlemen with whom we're dealing.
Or to create the pretense that he was a kind and honorable gentleman?