PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteI was young. I was stupid. I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time.close quote

Baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez, admitting he had used steroids between 2001 to 2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers

 
 
open quoteI heard my mother make a noise on the phone I've never heard before.close quote

Chris Kausner, whose sister was on the Continental flight that crashed into a house in Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 aboard, on calling his mother to tell her about the accident

 
 
open quoteHe really is retired this time.close quote

Scott Sommer, the expert handler for Stump, the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel that became the Westminster dog show's oldest ever best-in-show winner after coming out of retirement just five days before the competition

 
 
open quoteI'm addicted. The Internet is great on this, very fast.close quote

Mullah Zaif, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, showing off his iPhone to a visiting Al-Jazeera reporter

 
 
open quoteYes, she's a lesbian. She's also a redhead.close quote

DC Comics writer Greg Rucka, on Kitty Kane, the new Batwoman, who is part of the company's effort to bring ethnic and sexual diversity to its superheroes

 
 
open quoteAmerica doesn't trust you anymore. I get a lot of money to put in banks. I don't have one single penny in any of your banks. Not one.close quote

Massachusetts Rep. Michael Capuano, chewing out eight Wall Street CEOs during their testimony on Capitol Hill

 
 
open quoteWe will have to try things we've never tried before. We will make mistakes.close quote

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, on his bank bailout proposal

 
 
open quoteRichard Holbrooke is the diplomatic equivalent of a hydrogen bomb.close quote

Former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, on his friend Richard Holbrooke, the new U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan

 
 
open quoteI may have embarrassed myself, but hopefully not him.close quote

New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, on his withdrawal from consideration to be President Obama's commerce secretary, making him the second failed Obama pick for the position

 
 
open quoteBefore, so many of us were living a good life here. Now we cannot pay our loans. We are all just sleeping, smoking, drinking coffee and having headaches.close quote

Hamza Thiab, a 27-year-old Iraqi living in Dubai, on how the global economic crisis has affected the affluent Middle Eastern country

 
 

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