In his first St David's Day message as Welsh Secretary, David Jones MP said: "Every one of us who lives in Wales has, I believe, good reason to feel proud of our uniquely beautiful homeland.
He said: "It's going to be an emotional show - a celebration of a job well done, bitter sweet, proud, inclusive, utterly and uniquely Glaswegian but still typically outward looking, generous in spirit and profoundly human.
After all, one of the things we as Americans are proud of is that we, uniquely perhaps, make every attempt to avoid targeting civilians in war and when we do kill them, it's usually by accident.
Again, while we are rightly proud of an haute couture which is uniquely French, since the postwar period and the appearance of prêt-à-porter we have been pulled along by Anglo-Saxon influences.
"Thanks to the one-team approach we have implemented between the two facilities, the team is uniquely positioned to succeed in 2014 and I am proud to have helped lay the foundations for that success.
Are you happy that our proud species has been reduced to this? Damn you, Earth people, and your uniquely kitschy fashions!
On the ground in Copenhagen, I was also proud to see youth climate leaders making our voices heard among the other activists, delivering our uniquely urgent perspective to the dialogues taking place.
I'll always be really proud of the work we've done and grateful for the opportunity to work with such a uniquely remarkable team.
"It is uniquely challenging".
"It's uniquely dysfunctional".
