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open quoteYou know the ladies.close quote

Sen. Ted Stevens, joking to a contractor about his wife's home improvement wishes in a 2000 thank-you note released as part of his ongoing federal trial in which he faces charges that he accepted $250,000 in free renovations from an Alaskan businessman

 
 
open quoteThe verdict was not a shock. We knew it going in, there was a lot of baggage.close quote

Defense attorney Yale Galanter, on his client O. J. Simpson, who was convicted of robbery and kidnapping, and now faces life in prison

 
 
open quoteTheir narrow path just got narrower.close quote

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, on the McCain campaign's choice to withdraw from Michigan and focus resources elsewhere

 
 
open quoteHe's got to get a [Yankees] championship. I've got four.close quote

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaking at a Connecticut fund-raiser about how his successor, Michael Bloomberg, can improve if he succeeds in his bid to extend term limits and remain in office

 
 
open quoteDad, keep it short. We're in formation.close quote

Beau Biden, son of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, offering advice before the Democratic vice-presidential nominee's send-off speech to his son and other members of the National Guard as they prepared for deployment to Iraq

 
 
open quoteIt will not happen that they capture us like goats.close quote

Sugule Ali, a spokesman for Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian weapons-bearing ship, warning that the pirates would go down with the hostages if the Ukrainians decide to destroy the ship rather than give in to ransom demands for $20 million

 
 
open quoteThis plan is immoral.close quote

Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, explaining to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow why he voted against the Sept. 29 bailout bill. He also declined to support the revised Oct. 3 version.

 
 
open quoteToday I'm going to cast a red-white-and-blue-collar vote ... because things are really bad and we don't have any choice.close quote

Tennessee Rep. Zach Wamp, explaining why he changed his "blue collar" vote against the Sept. 29 Wall Street bailout bill to a favorable vote on Oct. 3, when a revised version passed the House 263-171

 
 

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open quoteA barrister without his wig would be like a doctor without a stethoscope.close quote

British judge and author John Mortimer, on the new dress code for barristers, which no longer requires them to wear white wigs

 
 
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