"Any day that you can exchange a member of the secret police for a law professor is a good day."
International lawyer Robert Amsterdam, who represents the jailed Russian boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, commenting on Dmitry Medvedev's Inauguration as Russia's new president

"Don't let Grandma hear it."
U.S. soldier Stephen Phillips, whose cell phone redialed home during a firefight in Afghanistan and broadcast the chaos onto his parents' answering machine

"They are trying to outfox us. They aren't willing to give up territory to humans."
Kazuhide Kyutoku, deputy chief of Japan's Kyushu Electric safety group, on the flocks of crows that are taking over parks, causing blackouts and stealing ducklings from Tokyo zoos

"I'm not going to put my lot in with the economists."
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," where she was asked to name a single economist who agrees with her temporary gas-tax-holiday plan

"Old-school objections to golf on ideological grounds have fallen away."
Mark Entwistle, a former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, on President Raúl Castro's new embrace of the "capitalist" sport

"This is our ticket back in time, to when all mammals laid eggs."
University of Oxford researcher Chris Ponting, whose team recently decoded the DNA of the duck-billed platypus. The animal's genome is a unique mixture of mammal, reptile and bird.

Quotation Sources: BBC, GUARDIAN, N.Y. TIMES, ABC NEWS, N.Y. TIMES, TIMES OF LONDON