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open quotePeople who say this apparently haven't been listening to me.close quote

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, responding to accusations that he's tacked to the center on issues like the Iraq War, gun control and wiretapping

 
 
open quoteGoodbye, from the world's biggest polluter.close quote

President George W. Bush, in his closing remarks to fellow leaders at the final G8 summit. Bush reportedly punched the air and grinned widely after making the joke.

 
 
open quoteDon't think about dying. Think about living.close quote

Former White House press secretary Tony Snow's message to cancer patients, delivered in an April 2007interview with The New York Times,during his very public battle with the diseasethat took his life on Saturday at the age of 53

 
 
open quoteMaybe that's a way of killing 'em.close quote

Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, responding to news that a tenfold rise in U.S. exports to Iran was largely due to cigarette sales

 
 

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open quoteI can't breast-feed my baby—but a lot of mothers don't.close quote

New mother Thomas Beatie, known as the pregnant man, who gave birth to a baby girl despite legally living as a man

 
 
open quoteYou never say never.close quote

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, on the potential for the House Judiciary Committee to act on his latest impeachment resolution against President Bush, a possibility noted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi

 
 
open quoteI think Senator Gramm would be in serious consideration for ambassador to Belarus —although I'm not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that.close quote

John McCain, joking that Gramm's "mental recession" comments have earned him a downgraded position in a McCain White House

 
 
open quoteWrite what you want.close quote

Tennis superstar Roger Federer, when asked about his future as the sport's top player. Federer conceded that his crushing five-hour Wimbledon loss to 22-year-old Rafael Nadal was his career's toughest defeat.

 
 
open quoteWe really, really got spoiled, if you will, with the spinach outbreak.close quote

Centers for Disease Control food-safety chief Dr. Robert Tauxe, about E. coli found in fresh spinach, a mystery solved in just two weeks. The culprit of the ongoing salmonella outbreak, affecting more than 1,000 people, is still unknown.

 
 
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