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open quoteHillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well.close quote

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, in a humorous exchange with rival Hillary Clinton during last week's Democratic presidential debate. Obama was asked how he could offer a new type of foreign policy when several of his advisers once worked for President Bill Clinton.

 
 
open quoteIn the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons.close quote

British Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker, on plans to ban samurai swords in England and Wales after a spate of attacks made with them

 
 
open quoteI was, like, 'Why me?' But I look at it this way, too: I'm not the only one.close quote

Oklahoma resident Sonya Kendrick, who was forced from her house by a series of deadly ice storms that blacked out more than a million homes and killed 27 people across the Midwest

 
 
open quoteHe said: 'We're missing layups because the crowd is booing'.close quote

New York Knicks fan Mara Altschuler, on comments by the team's coach Isiah Thomas that she overheard from her seat during an embarrassing home loss to the Dallas Mavericks

 
 
open quoteMy own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali.close quote

Former vice president Al Gore, at the United Nations' Climate Conference, after the United States refused to accept specific targets for cutting carbon emissions

 
 
open quoteI have a 13-year-old who can't read or write. It destroys me.close quote

Iraqi refugee Azhar al Haidari, who cannot afford to send her children to school in Syria, where the family has fled to avoid the war in Iraq. More than 300,000 Iraqi children are out of school due to the conflict.

 
 
open quoteIKE "BEATS" TINA TO DEATHclose quote

A New York Post headline for a story about the death of Ike Turner, whose role as a musical pioneer was overshadowed by his abuse of former wife Tina Turner

 
 

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open quoteThere are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke.close quote

Missouri Sen. Kit Bond on why waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning, should not be considered torture

 
 
 
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