"It's a mess."
Eric M. Thorson, inspector general of the United States Treasury Department, on the lack of coordinated oversight of Congress's $700 billion bailout package
"Well, I've been sleeping like a baby. I sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry."
Senator and former GOP presidential candidate John McCain, responding to comedian Jay Leno's question of how he's handling his loss to Barack Obama in the presidential election
"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere … show me where the open door is. And if there is an open door in [20]12 or four years later … then I'll plow through that door."
Former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, responding to speculation that she's already positioning herself for a presidential bid in the next election cycle
"I am beginning to get fed up with the amount of nonsensical rubbish I take all day and every day. If one more [New Zealand] child asks me what it's like to be a prince, I shall go demented … Will you visit me when they strap me in a white apron and deposit me in some institution?"
England's Prince Charles, in a letter to friends during a 1981 tour to the southern hemisphere. The letter was part of a collection of Charles' private writings released by The Guardian last week in honor of his 60th birthday.
"We performed a little operation of our own."
Col. Aldo Jacobello, spokesman for the Italian police, whose carabinieri caught a suspected mobster and drug trafficker by disguising themselves as nurses and hospital visitors while their target underwent liposuction surgery
Quotation sources: The Washington Post, Times of London, Fox News, the Guardian U.K., BBC