"He doesn't make that many." First Lady Laura Bush, asked on "Larry King Live" if she gets annoyed with her husband's errors in grammar
"There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater." Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum, slogging through theflooded streets of Prairie du Chien after the Mississippi River overflowed its banks
"Recount's over. Go away!" Bush recount attorney Ben Ginsberg, responding to questions about his client's unpaid legal bills from the Florida court battles
"We expected this. You can't have a trade summit these days without tear gas; it would be like having a cheeseburger without the cheese." A senior Bush administration official, on protests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." President Bush, on not taking questions at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
"Deciding whether or not we have a cross or some stars on a flag is not one of the graver issues that people are struggling with every day." Rolling Fork, Miss., Mayor Gary Henderson, explaining the low voter turnout on a proposal to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state's banner. Voters overwhelmingly supported the current flag.
"I called Nixon some pretty choice things and never had something like this happen." Margaret Richards, who found Secret Service agents on her doorstep after she sent a scathing e-mail to a Florida state representative, Gov. Jeb Bush and the president
"Details on the type of mushrooms are unavailable." Burbank airport spokesperson Victor Gill, on "West Wing" mastermind Aaron Sorkin's arrest at the airport for the alleged possession of psychedelic mushrooms
"There are no hurdles left to hinder such a mission." Russian scientist Anatoli Grigoriev, on Russian plans to land men on Mars by 2020
"Not to get too Susan Sarandon on you, but part of what I'd get off on would be the oration." Movie star Ben Affleck, explaining why he'd like to run for Congress
"I'm like an expensive menu. You can look at it, but you can't afford it." Tennis star Anna Kournikova, on her demanding standards for would-be suitors
"You could teach your grandmother to do it." British hacker Raphael Gray, on the ease with which he stole Microsoft founder Bill Gates's credit-card number off the Internet and used it to order Viagra for the tech tycoon