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open quoteIs it the Jonas Brothers?close quote

Ten-year-old Malia Obama, the elder daughter of Sen. Barack Obama, after being told there was a "surprise" awaiting her onstage at the Democratic National Convention. It turned out to be her father, appearing via satellite.

 
 
open quote[We] pushed the bodies into the canal and left.close quote

Sgt. Michael P. Leahy Jr., in a sworn statement detailing how he and two other U.S. soldiers executed four blindfolded Iraqi detainees and hid the bodies

 
 
open quoteCan we drill your brains?close quote

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, chiding John McCain supporters who interrupted her speech at a Denver press event with chants of "Drill here! Drill now!"

 
 
open quoteWe are sure that it will work wonders.close quote

India's Secretary of Welfare Vijay Prakash, urging citizens to eat rats, which are high in protein, as a way to ease the global hunger crisis

 
 
open quoteOn your way out, don't let the door bang you on the ass.close quote

Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert, in an open letter to sportswriter Jay Mariotti, who quit the paper in a huff to become a TV reporter and told an interviewer that "newspapers are dead"

 
 
open quoteAmerica, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.close quote

Sen. Barack Obama, in his speech accepting his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver

 
 
open quoteHoly cow!close quote

Retired teacher Chuck Heath, father of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, upon learning—fresh off a caribou hunting trip—that Sen. John McCain had chosen Palin to be his running mate

 
 
open quoteThis is one of the largest project management challenges the U.S. government has had since we put somebody on the moon.close quote

Hank Krakowski, chief operations officer for the Federal Aviation Administration's air-traffic system, on the need to upgrade aging computer technology after a massive failure caused 650 flight delays across the East Coast and the Midwest

 
 
open quoteI want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters … if y'all could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.close quote

Famously profligate rap mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs, announcing that even he has been forced to ground his private jet because of higher gas prices

 
 

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