Verbatim

"This is part of the price we pay, I guess, for living in paradise." JEB BUSH, Governor of Florida, addressing residents of the state on television as they prepared for Hurricane Frances. Hurricane Charley hit the state three weeks ago

"Anger is not going to change this country and do what needs to be done for America." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, responding to the tone of speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention

"If you took half of what Bush said and half of what Kerry said, you could make a damn good President." GARY ALBERS, a Korean War veteran and a member of the American Legion, after President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry spoke at his group's national convention on consecutive days

"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling." RALPH NADER, speaking at a Las Vegas library during his first campaign appearance

"It's one thing to read about it in the newspaper, but it's another thing to see them actually scrape the body parts off the street." DOUG MOKE, an American student studying in Beersheba, Israel, on the scene after two bus bombings there killed 16 people. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attacks

"One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives." SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, former President of Yugoslavia, explaining the events that led to civil war in his former nation, during his trial for war crimes in the Hague

"I can't believe somebody is so interested--particularly in all the pictures of me at the grocery store or at preschool ... It's like, 'Is this really interesting? And to whom?'" REESE WITHERSPOON, in an interview, questioning the appeal of tabloid magazines

Sources: New York Times; AP; USA Today; AP; New York Times (2); AP