Quote(s) for the week.
1) "Our people don't want to be amused by our politics anymore."
- BOBBY JINDAL, who will take office in January as Louisiana's first non-white governor since the Reconstruction and the nation's youngest-ever governor, on attempting to pass the political "corruption torch" to Kentucky.
2) "Dumbledore is gay."
- Author J.K. ROWLING, outing one of her Harry Potter characters. Facing criticism, J. K. also said "He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say about him."
3) "This is not a dream, OK? You're not going to wake up from this."
- Comedian STEPHEN COLBERT, on entering the presidential primary in his home state of South Carolina, adding that he doesn't really want to be President, he just wants to run.
4) "Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions."
- DICK CHENEY, US Vice President, in an "OH NO, not again" moment, while declaring that Iran will not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
5) "The bottom line is that the State can't account for where it went."
- GLENN D. FURBISH, an auditor with the Government Accountability Office, after the U.S. State Department failed to account for $1.2 billion given to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police.
6) "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."
- DORIS LESSING, Nobel Prize in literature winner, comparing the 9/11 attacks to those by the Irish Republican Army in Britain.
7) "It looked like the end of the world."
- MITCH MENDLER, a San Diego firefighter, on the Southern California fires that have forced the evacuation of 250,000 people.
8) "The Muslim world is waiting for you to gather under one banner."
- A new audiotape purportedly by OSAMA BIN LADEN, calling for Iraq's feuding militant factions to unite against U.S. troops.
9) "The detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is the most visible manifestation of the regime's brutality but it is only the tip of the iceberg."
- Six female Nobel Peace laureates, in a letter they signed asking the U.N. to push the Burmese junta to release the pro-democracy leader.
10) "If we have the ability to send a satellite to the moon, why is it so difficult to send all corrupt officials to prison?"
- WU MINGFA, a farmer from Xichang, China, asking a question about China that we should be asking about America, on the nation's first lunar satellite, which launched Wednesday from Wu's hometown.
11) "We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely."
- PADDY ASHDOWN, former U.N. envoy, on NATO's military campaign against Islamic militants in Afghanistan, adding that the implications for losing in Afghanistan were worse than losing in Iraq.
12) "Hillary and I have few things in common: we've both been senators, lawyers, and wives of Presidents, but not much else."
- CRISTINA FERNANDEZ de KIRCHNER, who is expected to succeed her husband as Argentina's President.
13) "The policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge for American security interests in the Middle East."
14) "When I see someone on television, when they say, 'This is a suspect,' I have a difficult time believing that that actually is a suspect."
- WILLIE "PETE" WILLIAMS, who is now free after serving nearly 22 years behind bars for a rape he never committed.
15) "We care if our food has butter or margarine on it. We really should be much more careful about the medications we put in our mouths."
- HEDY COHEN, a spokeswoman for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, after an increase in fatal pharmacy errors.
16) "I would really like to know specifically what those teeth might be."
- Congressman TOM TANCREDO, criticizing Condoleezza Rice, who said she was using the "teeth of diplomacy" to deal with North Korea.
17 "Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue."
- DNA Pioneer JAMES D. WATSON, on his decision to retire (REALLY he CRAWLED back into his cave) after setting off a furor last week over comments questioning the intelligence of blacks.
18) "Al-Jazeera directors have shamefully chosen to back the Crusaders' side, and the defenders of hypocrites and the thugs and traitors of Iraq."
- Statement from the Al-Fajr Media Center, accusing the Middle East television network of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape by airing excerpts in which he admits to mistakes by the insurgents in Iraq.
19) "Fletcher’s message is resonating, but only with his base. ... He hasn’t been able to expand his coalition beyond his base and that’s why he’s going to lose."
- Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
20) "There’s two weeks left here and the governor is campaigning hard throughout the state. ... We still have time to communicate the message."
- Jason Keller, Spokesperson for the campaign of Kentucky Governor, Ernie Fletcher.
- BOBBY JINDAL, who will take office in January as Louisiana's first non-white governor since the Reconstruction and the nation's youngest-ever governor, on attempting to pass the political "corruption torch" to Kentucky.
2) "Dumbledore is gay."
- Author J.K. ROWLING, outing one of her Harry Potter characters. Facing criticism, J. K. also said "He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say about him."
3) "This is not a dream, OK? You're not going to wake up from this."
- Comedian STEPHEN COLBERT, on entering the presidential primary in his home state of South Carolina, adding that he doesn't really want to be President, he just wants to run.
4) "Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions."
- DICK CHENEY, US Vice President, in an "OH NO, not again" moment, while declaring that Iran will not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
5) "The bottom line is that the State can't account for where it went."
- GLENN D. FURBISH, an auditor with the Government Accountability Office, after the U.S. State Department failed to account for $1.2 billion given to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police.
6) "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."
- DORIS LESSING, Nobel Prize in literature winner, comparing the 9/11 attacks to those by the Irish Republican Army in Britain.
7) "It looked like the end of the world."
- MITCH MENDLER, a San Diego firefighter, on the Southern California fires that have forced the evacuation of 250,000 people.
8) "The Muslim world is waiting for you to gather under one banner."
- A new audiotape purportedly by OSAMA BIN LADEN, calling for Iraq's feuding militant factions to unite against U.S. troops.
9) "The detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is the most visible manifestation of the regime's brutality but it is only the tip of the iceberg."
- Six female Nobel Peace laureates, in a letter they signed asking the U.N. to push the Burmese junta to release the pro-democracy leader.
10) "If we have the ability to send a satellite to the moon, why is it so difficult to send all corrupt officials to prison?"
- WU MINGFA, a farmer from Xichang, China, asking a question about China that we should be asking about America, on the nation's first lunar satellite, which launched Wednesday from Wu's hometown.
11) "We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely."
- PADDY ASHDOWN, former U.N. envoy, on NATO's military campaign against Islamic militants in Afghanistan, adding that the implications for losing in Afghanistan were worse than losing in Iraq.
12) "Hillary and I have few things in common: we've both been senators, lawyers, and wives of Presidents, but not much else."
- CRISTINA FERNANDEZ de KIRCHNER, who is expected to succeed her husband as Argentina's President.
13) "The policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge for American security interests in the Middle East."
14) "When I see someone on television, when they say, 'This is a suspect,' I have a difficult time believing that that actually is a suspect."
- WILLIE "PETE" WILLIAMS, who is now free after serving nearly 22 years behind bars for a rape he never committed.
15) "We care if our food has butter or margarine on it. We really should be much more careful about the medications we put in our mouths."
- HEDY COHEN, a spokeswoman for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, after an increase in fatal pharmacy errors.
16) "I would really like to know specifically what those teeth might be."
- Congressman TOM TANCREDO, criticizing Condoleezza Rice, who said she was using the "teeth of diplomacy" to deal with North Korea.
17 "Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue."
- DNA Pioneer JAMES D. WATSON, on his decision to retire (REALLY he CRAWLED back into his cave) after setting off a furor last week over comments questioning the intelligence of blacks.
18) "Al-Jazeera directors have shamefully chosen to back the Crusaders' side, and the defenders of hypocrites and the thugs and traitors of Iraq."
- Statement from the Al-Fajr Media Center, accusing the Middle East television network of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape by airing excerpts in which he admits to mistakes by the insurgents in Iraq.
19) "Fletcher’s message is resonating, but only with his base. ... He hasn’t been able to expand his coalition beyond his base and that’s why he’s going to lose."
- Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
20) "There’s two weeks left here and the governor is campaigning hard throughout the state. ... We still have time to communicate the message."
- Jason Keller, Spokesperson for the campaign of Kentucky Governor, Ernie Fletcher.
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