"I do not reinvent myself at every turn. I am not running in borrowed clothes." George W. Bush upon accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination
"He's probably the least qualified person ever to be nominated by a major party... What is his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?" Ron Reagan, son of the former president and a Ralph Nader supporter
"In two or three months this case will be dismissed. This is Indonesia. The system is corrupt, anyone can be bought for the right price." A lawyer with the respected Indonesian Corruption Watch, on the charges of unlawful acquisition brought against former Indonesian dictator General Suharto, who will stand trial later this month
"Just before you settle down on the landing pad, you look upon Arlington Cemetery... its gentle slopes and crosses row upon row. I never once made that trip without being reminded how enormously fortunate we all are to be Americans." Vice presidential hopeful Dick Cheney, during his Tuesday night convention speech. Arlington regulations mandate headstones, not crosses.
"The Jews and Muslims are in a Catholic marriage with no possibility of divorce." Former Jordanian foreign minister Kamel Abu Jaber on the need for a Mideast agreement that allows both sides to live in peace
"I can't wait to get a glimpse of the Queen Mum. I am a true royalist and I reckon she's the best of the bunch." Janet Carter, a fan of Britain's monarchy, on Queen Mother Elizabeth's 100th birthday
"It's changed our institutional mind-set." U.S. Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly, on the growth in popularity of the illegal drug Ecstasy, nearly 80 million pills of which have been seized by the U.S. Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration in the past seven months
"A president who denies something within 24 hours of saying it does not cheer the market." A Zimbabwe economist, speaking to Reuters after President Mugabe told black farmers he still supported the illegal farm invasions that began in February
"It is unacceptable to parade British citizens... before the world's media and accuse them of terrorism and espionage." The British Foreign Office, on the arrests of four Western men, two of them British, on the Montenegro-Kosovo border on charges of plotting against the Yugoslav government
"Hugh Grant is fantastic in bed. He always has been." Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley, denying that she told Jane magazine her sex life with Grant was "less than adequate"
