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open quoteCongo is just a graveyard for airplanes.close quote

Jim Burin, director of technical programs at the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation, on last week's Congolese jetliner crash that killed at least 47 people

 
 
open quoteIf you owe someone a lot of money, you better be real nice to them.close quote

CNN founder Ted Turner, in an interview at George Washington University, advising President Bush to ignore calls for him to boycott the Beijing Olympics because of China's human-rights record

 
 
open quoteHe's getting his ass kicked.close quote

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, in an appearance on GE-owned CNBC, criticizing his handpicked successor Jeff Immelt after the company missed its third-quarter earnings target

 
 
open quoteI don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.close quote

Sen. Hillary Clinton, blaming the Democratic Party's "activist base" and groups such as MoveOn.org for some of her electoral defeats in a recently disclosed audio recording of a post Super Tuesday fund-raiser

 
 
open quoteI am deeply ashamed, and we will do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future.close quote

Pope Benedict XVI, addressing the clergy sex-abuse scandal that has cost the church more than $2 billion and devastated the United States' Roman Catholic community

 
 
open quoteAt least we'll have an adult in office who can lead and accomplish something.close quote

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at a California political lunch during which he declined to endorse a candidate for president but implied that any of the remaining options would be an improvement over the status quo

 
 
open quoteThe entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction.close quote

Yale University spokesperson Helaine Klasky, in response to public outrage over art student Aliza Shvarts's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project

 
 
open quoteI have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives.close quote

Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying reports that he is planning to divorce his wife and marry 24-year-old Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva, an Olympic gold medalist

 
 

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