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open quoteReverend Hagee was not and is not my pastor or spiritual adviser, and I did not attend his church for 20 years.close quote

John McCain, evoking the pastor problems of rival Barack Obama, in an attempt to distance himself from John Hagee, whose endorsement McCain rejected last week

 
 
open quoteWe can be a family again.close quote

Nancy Dockstader, a member of the FLDS polygamist sect, after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state was not justified in separating families from the Yearning for Zion ranch and placing hundreds of children in foster care

 
 
open quotePlease, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation.close quote

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, in a commencement address at Boston College, imploring the students to cut back on the use of words such as "like," "awesome" and "actually"

 
 
open quoteI expect absolute chaos at ticket counters.close quote

Business writer Joe Brancatelli, on American Airlines' new policy of charging all coach passengers $15 per checked bag, in an effort to absorb the cost of higher gas prices

 
 
open quoteWe all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June.close quote

White House hopeful Hillary Clinton, raising the specter of Barack Obama's assassination in an attempt to defend her decision to remain in the race, despite long mathematical odds. She later apologized, claiming that she wanted to cite "historical examples" of long nominating contests.

 
 
open quoteIt shows that they can even screw up spending the taxpayers' money unwisely.close quote

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, ridiculing House Democrats after a clerical error thwarted their attempts to overturn President Bush's veto of a massive farm bill

 
 
open quote[It's] going to boil down to a few old Jews.close quote

Florida Rabbi Ruvi New, musing about the political clout of his state's Jewish voters, ahead of presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign visit to the state last week

 
 
open quoteTo be clear, the swelling is not due to any evidence of cancer.close quote

John McCain's surgeon Dr.Michael Hinni, reporting that the 71-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee is healthy and shows no new signs of cancer despite the prominence of his left jaw, which has appeared puffy since his melanoma surgery in 2000

 
 

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