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open quoteIf you want to start up a new game, the Iranian people will resist and will not step back one inch.close quote

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sounding a note of defiance after a new U.S. National Intelligence Estimate suggested that Iran had ended its nuclear-weapons program in 2003

 
 
open quoteI've never even heard gunshots before … I thought I never would.close quote

Holiday shopper Kevin Kleine, who hid in a storage room while a gunman opened fire in a crowded Omaha, Neb., mall. Robert A. Hawkins, 19, murdered eight people and wounded five others before killing himself.

 
 
open quoteI would love to see a woman president. I just didn't think it would be her.close quote

Former television reporter Gennifer Flowers, the onetime mistress of Bill Clinton, who says she's leaning toward voting for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary

 
 
open quoteHoney, it's bad. It's real bad.close quote

Washington state resident Sandra Lund, on the spate of violent storms that struck the Pacific Northwest last week, flooding homes and killing eight people

 
 
open quoteI will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause and no one interest.close quote

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a speech on Mormonism and faith at former president George H.W. Bush's library

 
 
open quoteI have a message for every homeowner worried about rising mortgage payments: the best you can do for your family is to call 1-800-995-HOPE.close quote

President George W. Bush, announcing the wrong number for the Homeownership Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit group that offers free counseling for victims of predatory mortgage lending. The correct number: 1-888-995-HOPE.

 
 
open quoteI think it's really more of a younger man, younger woman's game.close quote

Hollywood star Brad Pitt, 43, on his decision to take a break from acting while rebuilding 150 homes in storm-ravaged New Orleans. Pitt donated $5 million to the recovery effort.

 
 

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open quoteOur dinosaur mummy makes other dinosaurs look like roadkill.close quote

Paleontologist Philip Manning, the leader of a scientific team studying the mummified remains of a duck-billed dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago in North Dakota

 
 
 
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