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"He made clear to me that he did not want to respond to al-Qaeda one attack at a time. He told me he was 'tired of swatting flies.'" CONDOLEEZZA RICE, National Security Adviser, explaining what she said was President Bush's strategy on al-Qaeda, during her testimony before the commission investigating the attacks of 9/11

"Dr. Rice, we only swatted a fly once, on the 20th of August 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired?" BOB KERREY, Democratic 9/11 commission member, referring to the 1998 retaliatory missile strike ordered by President Clinton against al-Qaeda terrorist training CAMPS IN TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AFGHANISTAN

"We are not going to be intimidated by thugs and assassins. We will not cut and run from the people who want freedom." PRESIDENT BUSH, on his determination to transfer governing power over Iraq to Iraqis on June 30

"The June 30 deadline is a fiction ... You don't set an arbitrary date for the transfer of power to a nonentity." SENATOR JOHN KERRY, criticizing Bush's insistence on adhering to the June 30 deadline

"They asked us to make them feel at home while we trained them to take our jobs." STEPHEN GENTRY, an Auburn, Wash., employee of Boeing, who was laid off--and says he was then asked to train the worker in India who would replace him

"I have a great devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe ... and had just looked up at the $2 million and said a little prayer to her when I hit the jackpot. Our Lady really looks out for me." GUADALUPE LOPEZ, mother of actress and singer Jennifer Lopez, on her $2.4 million slot-machine win at an Atlantic City CASINO

"I really regret losing my sanity for so many years, and if I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't do any of it." ROSEANNE, actress, on her behavior in the early 1990s--including her claims that she had been sexually abused by family members

Sources: AP (2); AFP, New York Daily News; USA Today; New York Daily News (2)