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"Someone who's attacking can attack at any place at any time using any technique, and it is an enormous challenge to provide force protection, something that our forces worry about, work on constantly."
- DONALD H. RUMSFELD
"It's like watching your son playing in traffic, and there's nothing you can do. You can't reach him."
- JANET BELLOWS, on her son's pending deployment to Iraq.
"Beneath that rough and gruff, no-nonsense demeanor is a good human being who cares deeply about the military and deeply about the grief that war causes."
- PRESIDENT BUSH, on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"You have to realize that these medications, they are not candies, they are not placebos."
- GURKIRPAL SINGH, A Stanford professor who worked on painkiller research before the development of the class of drugs that includes Celebrex and Vioxx.
"The comment may sound a bit whimsical, but it's literally true that the leading cause of death on death row is old age."
- RONALD M. GEORGE, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court.
"The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these."
- LORD HOFFMAN, of Britain's highest court, which ruled against indefinite detention of terror suspects.
"People see the figure of 1,200 dead. Much more rarely do they see the number of seriously wounded. And almost never do they hear anything at all about the psychiatric casualties."
- DR. EVAN KANTER, a psychiatrist at a veterans' hospital in Seattle.
"Prospects for retiree health coverage are slowly disappearing for America's workers, and retirees who have it will be paying more."
- DREW E. ALTMAN, of Kaiser Family Foundation.
"It would have been messy, ugly and an embarrassment to President Bush, so I withdrew my name."
- BERNARD B. KERIK, who was nominated to be Homeland Security secretary.
"It is difficult for me to conceive of how a small country like Canada could meet the prescription drug needs of approximately 280 million Americans without putting our own supply at serious risk. Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United States."
- UJJAL DOSANJH, Canada's health minister.
"I just assume somewhere in my life some knucklehead has looked at me and my brown self and said that they have given me less or denied me an opportunity. But the bottom line is, and my wife will attest to this, I am so insensitive that I probably didn't notice."
- GERALD A. REYNOLDS, new chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, on experiencing racial discrimination.
"At this point if you ask me, 'Are you dying without hockey?' I'd ask you, 'Emotionally or economically?' Emotionally we're all dying."
- THOMAS KUCHARSKI, president of Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, on the N.H.L. lockout.
"She laid to rest the insult, 'You play like a girl.'"
- ANSON DORRANCE, on Mia Hamm, the American soccer star who is retiring tonight and who played for Dorrance at the University of North Carolina.
"E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited. It has companies tearing their hair out."
- R. CRAIG HOGAN, a former professor who heads an online school for business writing.
"We're going out where the bad guys live, and we're going to slay them in their ZIP code."
- LT. COL. MARK A. SMITH, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq.
"How can you feed fake muffins, brownies and pancakes to people who are trying to lose weight and expect it to work?"
- DR. STUART FISCHER, a protégé of Dr. Robert C. Atkins, speaking about the
problems of a diet based on low-carbohydrate products.
"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do."
- TOMMY G. THOMPSON, the secretary of health and human services, announcing his
resignation.
"This once again demonstrates the need to implement a tougher and more effective major league drug-testing program."
- BUD SELIG, the baseball commissioner, after reports that Jason Giambi
of the Yankees had acknowledged steroid use in testimony to
a grand jury.
"What will happen if he wins the election while he's in prison? I don't think anyone really knows the answer to that."
- MOKHAIMER ABUSADA, a professor at Al Azhar University, on the Palestinian
leader Marwan Barghouti.
"I am confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple years ago."
- TOM RIDGE
