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open quoteThat's my phone buzzing there. I don't want you to think I'm getting fresh or anything.close quote

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, explaining the strange vibration coming from his hip pocket during a close photo op with two female café workers in Indiana

 
 
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Meagan Mitchell, a spokesperson for Vice President Dick Cheney, after a photo posted on the White House Web site caused a stir because it appeared to show the reflection of a naked woman in Cheney's sunglasses

 
 
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British High Court Judge David Eady, on his decision to allow the tabloid News of the World to re-post to its Web site a bizarre video featuring Formula One racing chief Max Mosley being whipped by five women wearing dominatrix outfits

 
 

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open quoteThis is about the Chinese government using the torch for political purposes. And we're going to use it right back.close quote

Students for a Free Tibet activist Lhadon Tethong, in a speech outside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, where the Olympic torch's only U.S. appearance was cut short by thousands of anti-Chinese demonstrators

 
 
open quoteWe are humbled by the loyalty of our customers. And we are very disappointed we let them down.close quote

American Airlines executive vice president Dan Garton, after the nation's largest carrier canceled more than 3,000 flights and stranded about 250,000 people over three days because of overdue safety checks

 
 
open quotePresident Bush has an exit strategy for only one man, himself, on Jan. 20, 2009.close quote

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, reacting to a speech in which President George W. Bush ordered an indefinite suspension of troop withdrawals from Iraq

 
 
open quoteThose who want to provoke a breach of peace, whoever they are and whatever office they hold, will be dealt with severely.close quote

Zimbabwean police official Faustino Mazango, announcing a ban on all political rallies in the country's capital amid reports of escalating violence in the wake of the country's still-unresolved March 29 presidential election, which longtime leader Robert Mugabe appears to have lost

 
 
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