Quote(s) for the week.
1) "It's not right. Mom!"
- Paris Hilton, screaming as she is being led away after being ordered back to jail to complete her 45 day sentence for driving on suspended license.
2) "Angelina Jolie is accomplished in her field and has demonstrated serious interest in issues such as Darfur, international education and refugees."
- LISA SHIELDS, a spokeswoman on the Council of Foreign Relations, which Jolie has been approved to join.
3) "It's a difficult thing to leave a friend and go to another friend. But we lost the John McCain I knew."
- JOHN DOWD, a Washington lawyer who helped fund McCain's presidential bid in 2000 but plans to support Fred Thompson in 2008, saying McCain's campaign is poorly run and over-managed.
4) "Morally and practically, this new approach appears to be far superior."
- RICHARD DOERFLINGER, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the scientific breakthrough that mouse skin cells can be engineered to act as stem cells without destroying embryos.
5) "The Vice President's fingerprints are all over the effort to strong-arm Justice on the NSA program ... ."
- Sen. CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D-N.Y.), on testimony revealing Cheney's role in the battle over the legality of the warrant-less surveillance program.
6) "No one is satisfied with the status quo: not the Iraqis, not key regional partners, not the U.S. government, and not the American public."
- Lt. Gen. DOUGLAS LUTE, President Bush's newly appointed White House war adviser, saying Wednesday that he had been skeptical of Bush's decision to send thousands more U.S. troops into Iraq.
7 "Essentially, the pledge is to return every, every drop we use back to nature."
- Coca-Cola CEO E. NEVILLE ISDELL, announcing a new $20 million water conservation project to make up for the 76 billion gallons of water the company uses each year.
8) "I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein."
- Former Massachusetts Gov. MITT ROMNEY, criticizing the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war, during a debate between Republican Presidential hopefuls.
9) "I'll do what I can to have it legalized."
- JACK KEVORKIAN, who was released from prison on Friday and says his new mission is to legalize--not actually perform--assisted suicides. A thought that should concern all of us.
10) "People would obviously relish coming to the Republic of Vermont, the Switzerland of North America."
- University of Vermont Professor FRANK BRYAN, who is part of a growing movement that champions the state's secession from the U.S.
11) "He has fallen from public grace. It is a tragic fall, a tragic fall."
- THEODORE WELLS, the defense attorney for Scooter Libby, who was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing justice in the CIA leak investigation.
12) "Staying here is like committing suicide."
- KARAR ALAA, 25, a student at Babil University, south of Baghdad, who plans to leave the country after graduation. An interim U.S. military report found that Iraqi and American forces control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods.
13) "These allegations ... are highly inflammatory and not based on all the facts."
- Pharmaceutical giant PFIZER, in response to a lawsuit filed by Nigeria accusing the company of carrying out improper trials on children for the anti-meningitis drug Trovan, which has been approved for use by adults, but not children, in the U.S.
14) "He's confident that when the facts are known, he will be vindicated. They picked the wrong congressman, and they picked the wrong facts."
- ROBERT TROUT, Attorney for Louisiana Democrat Rep. William Jefferson, who was indicted yesterday on 16 charges of bribery, racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering. The quote sounds to me like a prelude to a plea bargain!
15) "We don't need any more evidence that it's a failure — this system should just stop."
- COLONEL DWIGHT SULLIVAN, head of U.S. defense attorneys at Guantánamo Bay, speaking after U.S. military judges threw out charges against two detainees, saying the court lacked jurisdiction.
16) "The risk he faces is that people want him so much to be like Ronald Reagan that he can't possibly live up to the test."
- PAUL LIGHT, of New York University's Center for the Study of Congress, on Republican Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson. For me I PREFER Abraham Lincoln!
17) "Vladimir Putin will tell me that Russia is a democracy and that he's advancing democracy. We have got some questions about that, of course."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, before arriving at the G8 conference on Monday.
18) "Of course I am an absolute, pure democrat...The thing is that I am the only one, there just aren't any others in the world."
- Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN, who says the U.S. and Europe have fallen short of their political ideals.
- Paris Hilton, screaming as she is being led away after being ordered back to jail to complete her 45 day sentence for driving on suspended license.
2) "Angelina Jolie is accomplished in her field and has demonstrated serious interest in issues such as Darfur, international education and refugees."
- LISA SHIELDS, a spokeswoman on the Council of Foreign Relations, which Jolie has been approved to join.
3) "It's a difficult thing to leave a friend and go to another friend. But we lost the John McCain I knew."
- JOHN DOWD, a Washington lawyer who helped fund McCain's presidential bid in 2000 but plans to support Fred Thompson in 2008, saying McCain's campaign is poorly run and over-managed.
4) "Morally and practically, this new approach appears to be far superior."
- RICHARD DOERFLINGER, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the scientific breakthrough that mouse skin cells can be engineered to act as stem cells without destroying embryos.
5) "The Vice President's fingerprints are all over the effort to strong-arm Justice on the NSA program ... ."
- Sen. CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D-N.Y.), on testimony revealing Cheney's role in the battle over the legality of the warrant-less surveillance program.
6) "No one is satisfied with the status quo: not the Iraqis, not key regional partners, not the U.S. government, and not the American public."
- Lt. Gen. DOUGLAS LUTE, President Bush's newly appointed White House war adviser, saying Wednesday that he had been skeptical of Bush's decision to send thousands more U.S. troops into Iraq.
7 "Essentially, the pledge is to return every, every drop we use back to nature."
- Coca-Cola CEO E. NEVILLE ISDELL, announcing a new $20 million water conservation project to make up for the 76 billion gallons of water the company uses each year.
8) "I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein."
- Former Massachusetts Gov. MITT ROMNEY, criticizing the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war, during a debate between Republican Presidential hopefuls.
9) "I'll do what I can to have it legalized."
- JACK KEVORKIAN, who was released from prison on Friday and says his new mission is to legalize--not actually perform--assisted suicides. A thought that should concern all of us.
10) "People would obviously relish coming to the Republic of Vermont, the Switzerland of North America."
- University of Vermont Professor FRANK BRYAN, who is part of a growing movement that champions the state's secession from the U.S.
11) "He has fallen from public grace. It is a tragic fall, a tragic fall."
- THEODORE WELLS, the defense attorney for Scooter Libby, who was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing justice in the CIA leak investigation.
12) "Staying here is like committing suicide."
- KARAR ALAA, 25, a student at Babil University, south of Baghdad, who plans to leave the country after graduation. An interim U.S. military report found that Iraqi and American forces control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods.
13) "These allegations ... are highly inflammatory and not based on all the facts."
- Pharmaceutical giant PFIZER, in response to a lawsuit filed by Nigeria accusing the company of carrying out improper trials on children for the anti-meningitis drug Trovan, which has been approved for use by adults, but not children, in the U.S.
14) "He's confident that when the facts are known, he will be vindicated. They picked the wrong congressman, and they picked the wrong facts."
- ROBERT TROUT, Attorney for Louisiana Democrat Rep. William Jefferson, who was indicted yesterday on 16 charges of bribery, racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering. The quote sounds to me like a prelude to a plea bargain!
15) "We don't need any more evidence that it's a failure — this system should just stop."
- COLONEL DWIGHT SULLIVAN, head of U.S. defense attorneys at Guantánamo Bay, speaking after U.S. military judges threw out charges against two detainees, saying the court lacked jurisdiction.
16) "The risk he faces is that people want him so much to be like Ronald Reagan that he can't possibly live up to the test."
- PAUL LIGHT, of New York University's Center for the Study of Congress, on Republican Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson. For me I PREFER Abraham Lincoln!
17) "Vladimir Putin will tell me that Russia is a democracy and that he's advancing democracy. We have got some questions about that, of course."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, before arriving at the G8 conference on Monday.
18) "Of course I am an absolute, pure democrat...The thing is that I am the only one, there just aren't any others in the world."
- Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN, who says the U.S. and Europe have fallen short of their political ideals.
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