Quote(s) for the week (National and world special edition).
1) "If things haven't changed by our next visit, we may have to announce a revolution." - MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, Former Soviet leader, surveying the slow recovery efforts in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.
2) "The sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity — it's appalling."
- JOHN HOLMES, the U.N. Under Secretary General for humanitarian affairs, on the "rape epidemic" that has seized eastern Congo."
3) "Che turned white... before saying: 'It's better this way, I should have died in combat.'"
- FELIX RODRIGUEZ, a former CIA agent, recalling Che Guevara's reaction upon learning he would be executed with no trial. Che died 43 years ago on Monday.
4) "There are wholly innocent explanations for anything the police may or may not have found."
- CLARENCE MITCHELL, McCann family spokesperson, dismissing new DNA tests implicating Madeleine McCann's parents in her disappearance.
5) "What kind of revolution is this? The Whiskey Revolution? The Hummer Revolution?
- Venezuelan President HUGO CHAVEZ, vowing to curb the import of luxury goods to his country.
6) "So how are you crazy bitches?"
- MEREDITH VIEIRA, Today show host, in a truthful moment to her former co-hosts during a reunion visit to ABC's The View.
7) "The success of a dialogue is based on sincerity and the spirit of give and take."
- Statement from Burma's NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY, after opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned down the junta's offers for peace talks, citing the generals' unfair preconditions.
8) "We can't blame the contractors. We blame our officials for this."
- MUHAMMAD, witness to the shooting of two women in Baghdad by private security guards.
9) "The government can engage in torture, declare it a state secret and avoid liability and accountability."
- BEN WIZNER, lawyer for Khaled El-Masri, who alleges being kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
10) "As far as President Yar'Adua is concerned nobody... will be considered a sacred cow... in the bid to rid Nigeria of corrupt practices."
- OLUSEGUN ADENIYI, a spokesman backing Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's denial that he is shielding an official from a London trial.
11) "You know he's been a disaster for our country."
- JIMMY CARTER, former U.S. President, on Vice President Dick Cheney. I guess one can say that Carter should know a disaster when he sees one.
12) "All we're trying to do is persuade him that it's a moral imperative for him to be a candidate."
- MONICA FRIEDLANDER, founder and chair of Draftgore.com, on the decision to purchase a full-page ad in the New York Times imploring former Vice President Al Gore to run for President in 2008.
13) "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
- AL GORE, after being awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of climate change.
14) "The Nobel Peace Prize rewards three decades of Vice President Gore's prescient and compelling — and often lonely — advocacy for the future of the Earth."
- JOHN EDWARDS, in a statement congratulating Al Gore on his Nobel Peace Prize winning.
15) "Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels."
- MADONNA CONSTANTINE, a black professor at Columbia University and the victim of a possible hate crime.
16) "America's middle-class families have been invisible to the President. It's as if he has looked right through them."
- HILLARY CLINTON, during her "Middle-Class Express" tour across Iowa.
17) "We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say."
- ANN COULTER, arguing that America would be better off if everyone was Christian.
18) "You can't possibly believe that. You can't possibly. You're too educated."
- CNBC host DONNY DEUTSCH, to best-selling author Ann Coulter after she said that the U.S. would be better off if everyone were Christian.
19) "These medications were never designed to cure colds."
- CATHERINE TOM-REVZON, a pharmacy manager in New York, after drug makers voluntarily pulled children's cold medicine off the market because of overdose concerns.
20) "There has been a glaring and unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders, ... [who have been] derelict in their duties ... [and guilty of a] lust for power."
- Retiring Lt. General and Iraq war Commander, Ricardo S. Sanchez, on the Iraq war and the Bush Administration.
2) "The sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity — it's appalling."
- JOHN HOLMES, the U.N. Under Secretary General for humanitarian affairs, on the "rape epidemic" that has seized eastern Congo."
3) "Che turned white... before saying: 'It's better this way, I should have died in combat.'"
- FELIX RODRIGUEZ, a former CIA agent, recalling Che Guevara's reaction upon learning he would be executed with no trial. Che died 43 years ago on Monday.
4) "There are wholly innocent explanations for anything the police may or may not have found."
- CLARENCE MITCHELL, McCann family spokesperson, dismissing new DNA tests implicating Madeleine McCann's parents in her disappearance.
5) "What kind of revolution is this? The Whiskey Revolution? The Hummer Revolution?
- Venezuelan President HUGO CHAVEZ, vowing to curb the import of luxury goods to his country.
6) "So how are you crazy bitches?"
- MEREDITH VIEIRA, Today show host, in a truthful moment to her former co-hosts during a reunion visit to ABC's The View.
7) "The success of a dialogue is based on sincerity and the spirit of give and take."
- Statement from Burma's NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY, after opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned down the junta's offers for peace talks, citing the generals' unfair preconditions.
8) "We can't blame the contractors. We blame our officials for this."
- MUHAMMAD, witness to the shooting of two women in Baghdad by private security guards.
9) "The government can engage in torture, declare it a state secret and avoid liability and accountability."
- BEN WIZNER, lawyer for Khaled El-Masri, who alleges being kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
10) "As far as President Yar'Adua is concerned nobody... will be considered a sacred cow... in the bid to rid Nigeria of corrupt practices."
- OLUSEGUN ADENIYI, a spokesman backing Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's denial that he is shielding an official from a London trial.
11) "You know he's been a disaster for our country."
- JIMMY CARTER, former U.S. President, on Vice President Dick Cheney. I guess one can say that Carter should know a disaster when he sees one.
12) "All we're trying to do is persuade him that it's a moral imperative for him to be a candidate."
- MONICA FRIEDLANDER, founder and chair of Draftgore.com, on the decision to purchase a full-page ad in the New York Times imploring former Vice President Al Gore to run for President in 2008.
13) "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
- AL GORE, after being awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of climate change.
14) "The Nobel Peace Prize rewards three decades of Vice President Gore's prescient and compelling — and often lonely — advocacy for the future of the Earth."
- JOHN EDWARDS, in a statement congratulating Al Gore on his Nobel Peace Prize winning.
15) "Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels."
- MADONNA CONSTANTINE, a black professor at Columbia University and the victim of a possible hate crime.
16) "America's middle-class families have been invisible to the President. It's as if he has looked right through them."
- HILLARY CLINTON, during her "Middle-Class Express" tour across Iowa.
17) "We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say."
- ANN COULTER, arguing that America would be better off if everyone was Christian.
18) "You can't possibly believe that. You can't possibly. You're too educated."
- CNBC host DONNY DEUTSCH, to best-selling author Ann Coulter after she said that the U.S. would be better off if everyone were Christian.
19) "These medications were never designed to cure colds."
- CATHERINE TOM-REVZON, a pharmacy manager in New York, after drug makers voluntarily pulled children's cold medicine off the market because of overdose concerns.
20) "There has been a glaring and unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders, ... [who have been] derelict in their duties ... [and guilty of a] lust for power."
- Retiring Lt. General and Iraq war Commander, Ricardo S. Sanchez, on the Iraq war and the Bush Administration.
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