PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteIS CARLA THE NEW PRINCESS DIANA?close quote

A headline from England's Daily Telegraph newspaper, after France's model turned First Lady Carla Bruni made appearances with members of the British royal family and Parliament

 
 
open quoteNo retreat.close quote

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on his government's crackdown against illegal militias in Basra, despite a spike in attacks on the Green Zone and violent protests calling for his resignation

 
 
open quoteWe have enemies for which no attack is too cruel.close quote

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, in a major address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, in which he argued that the United States has a moral duty to remain in Iraq

 
 
open quoteI asked him, 'What do you know about our chief justice that we don't know?'close quote

Pakistani scholar Farrukh Saleem, reminding Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte of America's failure to support Pakistan's deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Negroponte was coolly received during his three-day trip through the region.

 
 
open quoteNot only were there no bullets flying around, there was no bumblebee flying around.close quote

Retired Col. William Changose, the Air Force pilot who flew Hillary Clinton into Bosnia in 1996, debunking a story from the presidential hopeful, who has said that her plane landed under sniper fire. She later said that she "misspoke."

 
 
open quoteWe run the risk that the next time our sensitive equipment ends up in the wrong hands, it won't simply be a matter of 'return to sender'.close quote

Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey, co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, discussing an Air Force error in which Taiwan received a shipment of nuclear-weapon parts instead of common helicopter batteries

 
 
open quoteJust dare try it.close quote

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, at a campaign rally, warning his challengers that post-election protesting will not be tolerated

 
 

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open quoteHopefully, with Pennsylvania's help, she will be our next president, and yes, I do think she'll be a better president.close quote

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton, in an appearance at Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Hospital, after an attendee asked whether Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Bill

 
 
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