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open quoteAs far as I know, many people don't like this kind of music. It's too noisy and clamorous.close quote

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, criticizing the long-anticipated Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy," which has reportedly been banned in China because of lyrics about Falun Gong

 
 
open quoteShe chose to use a computer to hurt a little girl, and for four weeks she enjoyed it.close quote

Federal prosecutor Thomas O'Brien, in his closing arguments against Lori Drew, 49, who was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud for cyberbullying Megan Meier, 13. The girl killed herself after receiving cruel MySpace notes from an account created by Drew.

 
 
open quoteAs long as you are presiding over policies that grind God's people into the earth, I'm coming after you.close quote

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor, relaying to a radio host the message he says he delivered to Obama following the president-elect's victory on Nov. 4

 
 
open quote[It would be] like rubbing salt in the wounds of Senator Clinton at a time when we're supposed to be in a healing process.close quote

Sen. Tom Daschle, dismissing rumors that Monica Lewinsky might be given a position in the Obama administration after first trying to ignore a reporter's question by pretending to receive a cell-phone call

 
 
open quoteYou're Welcome, America.close quote

The title of a new Broadway show by Will Ferrell, opening on Jan. 20, in which the comedian will deliver a two-hour monologue impersonating President George W. Bush

 
 
open quoteWhen the doors opened, all hell broke loose.close quote

A law-enforcement officer responding to a stampede at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., during which a 34-year-old man was trampled to death by shoppers rushing to take advantage of Black Friday sales

 
 
open quoteThey said, 'Where are you from?' and he said he's from Italy, and they said, 'Fine,' and they left him alone.close quote

Alex Chamberlain, a British citizen who was in Mumbai on Nov. 26 when more than 150 people were killed in coordinated terrorist attacks, telling reporters that he had witnessed gunmen targeting "British and Americans specifically"

 
 
open quoteOverwhelmed is putting it mildly … People obviously need food.close quote

Colorado farmer Chris Miller, on the crowd of 40,000 people who arrived at his farm to take advantage of his two-day offer of free produce to anyone willing to dig it up themselves

 
 

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