"The ocean
rose up like a big hand and just went right through our house."
DEEANN SHERMAN, who was trapped on Bolivar Peninsula in Texas by
Hurricane Ike.
"Since the
first of the year another 75,000 people in Darfur have been displaced.
That is more than a thousand a day."
RICHARD S. WILLIAMSON, President Bush’s special envoy to Sudan.
"It’s a
country that has lost a little of its will for the future. There is
more fear than hope."
WALTER VELTRONI, mayor of Rome, on Italy.
"You might do
it well one time and try another time and crash and die."
LOÏC JEAN-ALBERT, of France, better known as Flying Dude, on
jumping from planes without a parachute.
"There’s an
art there that I would like to be more successful at. Life is a
learning process, and a little more Lyndon Johnson would not hurt."
GOV. ELIOT SPITZER, on his relations with the State Legislature.
"I
feel happy, but my happiness is not complete. We need more people to
come back. We need more people to feel safe."
SUHAILA AL-AASAN, on returning with her family to her otherwise
empty apartment building in Baghdad.
"The
child that you send over is nothing like the child that comes back to
you."
CHRISTINE DELISA, mother of a wounded soldier.
"If
anything characterizes the 21st century, it’s our inability to
restrain ourselves for the benefit of other people. The cellphone
talker thinks his rights go above that of people around him, and the
jammer thinks his are the more important rights."
JAMES KATZ, director of the Center for Mobile Communication
Studies at Rutgers University.
"It
makes a big difference when you have someone in the statehouse willing
to take the lead."
PRESIDENT BUSH, referring to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s response
to wildfires in California.
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"If you
want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an
amnesty bill. That’s empty political rhetoric trying to frighten
our citizens."
PRESIDENT BUSH, on the proposed immigration bill.
"Who
amongst you could have heard these comments and not be upset?"
C. VIVIAN STRINGER, head coach of the Rutgers women’s
basketball team, on a remark by DON IMUS.
"Music
is hot in China."
CHEN HUNG-KUAN, chairman of the piano department at the
Shanghai Conservatory.
Crying doesn’t make me any less of a man. To not show emotion,
you’re an idiot, or you’re living a pipe dream. If someone were
to tell me not to show emotion, I’d hit them in the lip."
LT. COL. MORRIS GOINS, reflecting on soldiers’ reactions to
losing comrades in Iraq
"For
both people the situation is fraught with anxiety and guilt."
DR. IRENE GOLDENBERG, a family psychologist, on couples’
trying to balance careers and cancer.
"We
would not be doing patrols. We would not be kicking in doors. We
would not be trying to insert ourselves in the middle between
the various Shiite and Sunni factions. I do not think that’s a
smart or achievable mission for American forces."
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, on her Iraq policy if elected
president.
"We
believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich.
From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that
knowledge."
MOHAMED ELBARADEI,
the director general of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, on Iran’s progress with uranium. |
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