Who said this?

To whom can this quote be ascribed?

"It's very hard to take a holiday with your family and pay for it on your Crown credit card and not know that you shouldn't be paying for that personally. It's very hard to buy a bottle of wine and then describe it as a meal with your spouse...

"I think the position went to his head very quickly -- he had barely been a minister a year, and he had that sense of entitlement. There needs to be sanctions against any person at any time who has that sense of entitlement and misspends Crown money."

Why, none other than Opposition Leader Phil Goff. He was commenting on the Auditor-General's finding that Phil Heatley had not intentionally broken ministerial spending rules.

We can't help but wonder what Phil Goff is going to say about Shane Jones' "sense of entitlement", Chris Carter's sense of entitlement, Parekura Horomia's "sense of entitlement" - need we go on?

And before you think that we're being one-sided on this, Tim Groser's mini-bar spending seems to us to be excessive, and ought to be the subject of some considerable degree of scrutiny. It is accepted that relationship-building is an important part of the Trade Negotiations role, but there are limits, and Groser needs to show that he has not exceeded them.