Quote(s) for the week.

1) "I think I may need a job soon. Latest poll shows 18 pts. with 90 days to go ... [Gov. Fletcher's re-election] seems a bit bleak."
Julie McPeak, an official with Gov. Fletcher's Insurance Dept., looking for a job because she thinks the Gov.'s re-election "looks bleak".

2) "We're the British."
- Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, who also compared Iraqi insurgents to the Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War.

3) "He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him."
- AL SHARPTON, after the last of the Jena 6, a group of black teens accused of beating a white classmate, was released on bail.

4) "The President's stubbornness is like an anchor around the Republican Party." - Democratic Rep. AL WYNN, on President Bush's increasing threat of vetoes to constrain the Democratic-controlled Congress even as Bush's popularity remains low.

5) "It's not true, but it is something that I have no control over. People will say what they want to say."
- HILLARY CLINTON, on the rumors that she is a lesbian.

6) "If Barack doesn't win Iowa, it's just a dream."
- MICHELLE OBAMA, during a campaign stop in Quad City, Iowa, on Wednesday. Some journalists have interpreted this statement as an announcement that the campaign would end if Obama doesn't win in Iowa.

7) "It's a good time for the Myanmar government to listen."
- SYED HAMID ALBAR, Malaysia's Foreign Minister, on an ASEAN statement expressing "revulsion" over the violence in Burma.

8) "This was classic bait and switch."
- BILL CLINTON, saying Republicans feigned outrage over MoveOn.org's New York Times ad to distract the public from larger problems in Iraq.

9) "A shift to a nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised."
- U.S. District Judge ANN AIKEN, after ruling that using the USA Patriot Act to authorize secret searches and wiretapping violates the constitution.

10) "We shouldn't use a tragedy for politics."
- BILL RICHARDSON, Democratic presidential hopeful, criticizing a $9.11-per-person fundraiser for Republican opponent Rudy Giuliani.

11) "The nuclear issue of Iran is now closed."
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, the president of Iran to the U.N. He added that Iran will leave the monitoring of its nuclear program to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

12) "I think President Bush has to go into a corner and hide if a Republican is going to get elected."
- DONALD TRUMP, adding that President George W. Bush will be a "huge liability" for Republicans in 2008.

13) In Iran, we don't have homosexuals."
- MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, speaking during a tempestuous visit to Columbia University in New York City on Monday.

14) "I just don't want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously."
- MISS U.S.A., a.k.a. Rachel Smith, on her journalistic ambitions.

15) Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."
- LEE BOLLINGER, the president of Columbia University, introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

16) The Burmese people deserve better."
- CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on the the situation in Myanmar, where 10,000 Buddhist monks demonstrated against the military junta on Sunday.