Quote(s) for the week.

1) "To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam."
- OSAMA BIN LADEN, in a new 30-minute videotape, the first to surface in three years, demonstrating he's still alive.

2) "Barack is very much human. So let's not deify him, because what we do is we deify, and then we're ready to chop it down."
- MICHELLE OBAMA, responding to criticism that she has been discussing her marriage and her husband's flaws too openly.

3) "We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple."
- STEVE JOBS, agreeing to issue $100 store credits to early buyers of Apple's I-Phone after they complained about its $200 price cut.

4) "The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new Senator from Idaho."
- A spokesman for SEN. LARRY CRAIG, who had hinted earlier this week that he would try to reverse his resignation by stating: "It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign."

5) "Nothing like this has ever been reported before, and we have been assured for decades that it was impossible."
- Rep. EDWARD J. MARKEY, of the Homeland Security Committee, after learning that a B-52 bomber had been mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown across the country last week.

6) "If you can't get your message out in a few months, you're probably not ever going to get it out."
- Actor and former U.S. Senator FRED THOMPSON, dismissing any suggestion that he's jumped into the race for the Republican presidential nomination too late.

7) "What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?" - Actor RICHARD GERE, on his new film The Hunting Party, which is based on the real-life pursuit of Radovan Karadzic, a Serbian politician still wanted for his role in the Bosnian genocide. Well, Mr. Gere: I have been asking myself about this the truth about the "Peter Principle".

8) "I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as President."
- President GEORGE W. BUSH, quoted in a new book that went on sale Tuesday by journalist Robert Draper, who gained rare access to the President and his aides. The book is called Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush.

9) "Your calculations are about right."
- Gen. DAVID PETRAEUS, top U.S. commander in Iraq, when asked whether the 162,000-troop American force would be cut by March.

10) "Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted."
- JOHN MCCAIN, after a high school student asked if McCain, 71, was worried he'd die in office. If elected, McCain would be the oldest president ever.

11) "It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico. There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country."
- WHOOPI GOLDBERG, reprising a Rosie O'Donnell role, while defending Michael Vick and his dogfighting case on her first day on The View.

12) "He's going to suck a lot of the oxygen out of the room when he first comes in." - MIKE HUCKABEE, a Republican presidential hopeful, on former Senator Fred D. Thompson, who is entered the race this week.

13) "I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid."
- RIDLEY SCOTT, director, speaking at the Venice International Film Festival. My point EXACTLY!

14) "Of course, that's what the U.S. military wants me to see, so you have to keep that in mind as well."
- KATIE COURIC, CBS Evening News anchor, after reporting from Iraq that day-to-day life appeared to be improving.

15) "I think the episode is over ... We’ll have a new senator from Idaho sometime in the next month or so and we’re going to move on."
- Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, on the attempted Larry Craig comback.