PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteLast year he had all the talent in the world but couldn't figure it out. Then he figures it out, and six hours later he's gone.close quote

New York Mets pitcher Darren O'Day, on his friend, 22-year-old rising star Nick Adenhart, who was killed in a hit-and-run car accident hours after pitching six scoreless innings for the Los Angeles Angels

 
 
open quoteI still got knots in my stomach, because I don't know when they're going to come yank it back from me, when they're going to put me back on the streets.close quote

Miami resident Mary Trody, who is squatting illegally in a house that her family lost to foreclosure

 
 
open quoteFor now, this is a sustainable business for the pirates. Everyone's doing a cost-benefit analysis. I heard someone say the other day the pirates have a pretty good business model.close quote

Political-science professor and Somalia expert Ken Menkhaus, on why a ransom payment is cheaper for shipping companies than taking an alternate route around the pirate-plagued sea off the coast of Somalia, where last week an American ship was hijacked

 
 
open quoteHis body of work is yet to come.close quote

Arizona State University spokesperson Sharon Keeler, on why the college was not planning to give an honorary degree to Barack Obama, this year's commencement speaker. ASU now says it's reconsidering.

 
 
open quoteThey make you take your shoes off and everything. It's terrible.close quote

Financier Allen Stanford, who has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, on the indignities of flying coach

 
 
open quoteI hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I would say 'liar'.close quote

Republican strategist Karl Rove, on Vice President Joe Biden's claim that he rebuked President George W. Bush during private meetings

 
 
open quoteWe will … provide our assessment when the time's right. I want to give it more time, because things can change pretty quickly around here.close quote

Gen. Ray Odierno, top U.S. commander in Iraq, warning that U.S. forces might miss the June 30 deadline for withdrawal from major Iraqi cities because of ongoing violence in Mosul and Baqubah

 
 
open quoteIt's got to be embarrassing. I can imagine heads flying if the Dear Leader finds out the satellite didn't fly into orbit.close quote

MIT missile expert Geoffrey E. Forden, on how North Korea's Kim Jong Il might react to the news of his country's failed missile launch

 
 

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