March 20, 2006 issue--"I'm concerned about a broader message." President George W. Bush, on a possible weakening in U.S. alliances with the Middle East after a Dubai company aborted a bid to manage U.S. ports.
"It's hard to have a debate when you have to debate a bunch of morons." Republican Illinois gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka, on her fellow candidates. Topinka later phoned each of her three rivals to personally apologize for the comment.
"It is time to reconvene the season of evil!" Matthew Cloyd, 20, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in a Jan. 9 posting on Facebook.com, a social-networking Web site. He was arrested last week in connection with the burning of nine Baptist churches.
"At all times we sought to place the welfare of children at the heart of our work. But now we have encountered a dilemma we cannot resolve." The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, in a statement, on the decision of the Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities to discontinue its adoption services because of a state law that allows gays to adopt.
"Any buyer has to go in with a very, very sharp knife and trim the fat and maybe into the muscles to get this to work." JPMorgan analyst Frederick Searby, on the consequence of a company's buying Knight Ridder newspapers, the nation's second largest newspaper chain.
"I would kiss just about anybody for peace in the Middle East." Actress Sharon Stone, arriving in Israel last week with Nobel Peace laureate Shimon Peres, on striving to help end conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
"I didn't even know what kind of steroids are steroids other than the kinds you use to fight allergies." Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker, on "Game of Shadows,'' a forthcoming book about Barry Bonds's alleged steroid use that was excerpted in Sports Illustrated last week.
"If people didn't want me to be king, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted for me.... People just like me." Jennifer Jones, 21, an openly gay student at Hood College in Frederick, Md., who was named homecoming king after beating out three men in the school's second annual homecoming competition. Some students complained, and now the school is reviewing its homecoming rules to decide on proper regulations for the future.
Reader Sue Bumpous of Alexandria, Va., submitted this quote: "Right now, I wouldn't vote Democratic if Jesus Christ was running." Judy Deats, a Texas Republican, who is standing by Rep. Tom DeLay in his re-election bid despite the fact that his association with lobbyist Jack Abramoff has made him vulnerable to political opposition for the first time in more than 20 years.
Quotation Sources From Top: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Associated Press, New York Times, Peres-Center.org, Associated Press (2), The Washington Post
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