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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy—for Iraq, for the U.S., for the U.N., for truth and human dignity.

Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, in an opinion piece he wrote for England's Guardian newspaper

I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder.

Missouri resident George Slayton, on losing his home after more than a foot of rain flooded much of the nation's heartland, displacing thousands and leaving at least 13 dead

What is reasonable about a ban on possession of handguns?

Chief Justice John Roberts, questioning Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban, during the Supreme Court's first debate of the Second Amendment in nearly 70 years

There are those who say the Iraqi Army can control Iraq without the Americans. But they are liars.

Iraqi battalion commander Ali Omar Ali, on his Army's lackluster progress toward self-sufficiency, which President Bush says is a key prerequisite for U.S. troop withdrawals

So?

Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to ABC News's White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, after she cited a recent poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting

The American people have input every four years, and that's the way our system is set up.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, during a daily briefing in which reporters, prompted by Cheney's comment to ABC News, questioned whether the Bush administration cares about input from the public

If they don't have anything to hide, then why are they making foreign journalists leave?

Vincent Brossel, head of the Asia desk for Reporters Without Borders, after the Chinese government forced the last known foreign journalists out of Tibet while stepping up restrictions on domestic Internet and radio reports

This is on the same level of catastrophe as the Challenger disaster.

Robert Gallo, head of Baltimore's Institute for Human Virology, after two tests of the most promising AIDS vaccine failed to protect people from the virus and may have actually increased the risk of infection

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