Quote(s) for the week.

1) "There's a way to bring an end to those practices, you know: vote the bums out. That's how our system is designed."
- Sen. BARACK OBAMA, after being asked whether he supports impeachment. Obama did not specifically name George Bush or Dick Cheney "bums".

2) "A district may consider it a compelling interest to achieve a diverse student population. Race may be one component of that diversity."
- U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy, clarifying his concurrence in the Court's 5-4 ruling that schools cannot use racial quotas to maintain an integrated student population.

3) "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
- U.S. Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS, supporting the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that schools cannot use racial quotas to diversity student populations.

4) "Now I understand why I survived Bush's plans and the plans of other presidents who ordered my assassination: the good Lord protected me."
- FIDEL CASTRO, Cuban leader, in response to Bush's remarks that "One day the good Lord will take Fidel Castro away."

5) "Congress's failure to act on it is a disappointment."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, after the Senate failed to pass the immigration bill that he promised will be passed and that he will sign.

6) "The documents truly do provide a glimpse of a very different era and a very different agency."
- CIA director Gen. MICHAEL HAYDEN, in a memo to agency staff about declassified files that reveal -- among "some things the CIA should not have done" -- a 1960 plot to kill Fidel Castro.

7) "A lot of people are looking at him like a bad person, but he's not, he really isn't."
- BARBARA CUTTS, stepmother of Bobby Cutts Jr., who is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend Jessie Davis and their unborn child, making a statement that ONLY she possibly believes.

8) "Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, mis-describing his immigration bill on Tuesday. Bush has repeatedly said the bill is not amnesty.

9) "Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fiber, and destroys trust."
- ROBERT ZOELLICK, who was elected President of the World Bank on Monday.

10) "A reasonable consumer would not interpret 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer's unreasonable demands."
- Judge JUDITH BARTNOFF, ruling against a man who sued a dry cleaners for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.

11) "The wheels are coming off his wagon and it's hard to see how he can recover."
- Republican consultant TOM EDMONDS, on John McCain's Presidential campaign. Some G.O.P. insiders predict the Arizona Senator will drop out of the race by September.

12) "It's becoming ever more clear that Rudy Giuliani suffers from John Kerry syndrome."
- JOSEPH CELLA, President of a Catholic advocacy group in Michigan, comparing Giuliani's stance on abortion with that of Kerry, whose Presidential campaign suffered when a group of American bishops denied him communion in 2004.

13) "I do not think that the international community has really lived up to its responsibilities here."
- U.S. Secretary of State CONDOLEEZZA RICE, BELATEDLY condemning the response to the bloodshed in Darfur, ahead of talks in Paris on violence in the Sudanese region.

14) "This fund is essentially a large campaign chest and is used accordingly."
- Sam Beverage, indicted former Kentucky highway engineer describing to a Judge, as a part of his plea agreement in the last? of the merit system investigations' indictments, a "where the real politics is played" $42 million-a-year discretionary fund used at the discretion of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary.

15) "These are part of the politics of destruction that continues to go on, and we're going to focus on what's important."
- Gov. Ernie Fletcher denying Beverage's allegations.