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open quoteIf you're a Southern conservative and you can't make it in South Carolina, it's over.close quote

Political analyst Bill Bennett, on former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week after a third-place showing in the South Carolina primary

 
 
open quoteIf I had the chance, I would have spit in his face.close quote

Italian Sen. Tommaso Barbato, on a colleague who supported Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a deeply divided confidence vote. Prodi lost and then resigned, ending his 20-month tenure in office.

 
 
open quoteI've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself.close quote

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in one of several racy text messages that he exchanged with his chief of staff Christine Beatty between 2002 and 2003, and that were leaked to the press last week. Kilpatrick, who is married, had previously denied having an affair with Beatty.

 
 
open quoteWe have our own brains.close quote

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, lashing out at what he called Western "intellectual arrogance" toward his country and dismissing the claim that he cannot be trusted to hold fair elections

 
 
open quoteI know you think it's crazy, but I kind of like to see Barack and Hillary fight.close quote

Former president Bill Clinton, stumping for his wife in South Carolina, suggesting that Democrats who are worried about the campaign rancor should lighten up and "let 'em at it"

 
 
open quoteIf they thought locking themselves in the garage with the car running would help them win a gold medal, I'm sure they would do it.close quote

Randy Wilber, a physiologist for the United States Olympic Committee, on his efforts to steer American athletes away from training for the smog-filled Beijing Games by breathing in noxious air

 
 
open quoteThat [injury] form will be filled out completely, and I can't wait to get it to you. I know you're anxious.close quote

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, teasing reporters about the status of quarterback Tom Brady, who was spotted wearing a protective boot less than two weeks before Super Bowl XLII against the New York Giants

 
 

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open quoteVictims of stalking are not alone.close quote

Texas First Lady Anita Perry, at a press conference to announce the establishment of a statewide "Stalking Awareness Month"

 
 
 
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