Verbatim
'We couldn't have said it better ourselves.' TUCKER BOUNDS, John McCain spokesman, on the campaign's use of old footage of Hillary Clinton criticizing Barack Obama
'I don't think we have to worry about invisible people walking around anytime soon.' JASON VALENTINE, scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, after researchers unveiled new materials that could potentially cloak objects by bending light
'It was a marketing ploy. The idea stuck.' JOVELINO SELIS, a teacher in Ubirata, Brazil, on being one of six people running for city council under the name Barack Obama
'Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.' MICHAEL MUKASEY, U.S. Attorney General, saying former Justice Department staffers won't be criminally prosecuted for politicizing hiring practices
'How can you live happily ever after when you met your husband three weeks before the wedding?' HOANG THI THANH HA of the Vietnam Women's Union, on the growing number of young women who are marrying foreign strangers to escape poverty
'It is a tidal wave against Musharraf.' SHERRY REHMAN, Pakistan's Information Minister, on calls for President Pervez Musharraf to either seek a confidence vote in parliament or face impeachment
'I didn't take it very seriously. I guess everything the President does is interesting.' GEORGE W. BUSH, after U.S. Olympian Misty May-Treanor prodded him into patting her on the back for luck
Back & Forth:
Film
'This population struggles too much with the basics to have to struggle against Hollywood.' TIMOTHY SHRIVER, Special Olympics chairman, calling for a boycott of the movie Tropic Thunder for its mocking portrayal of the mentally disabled
'We're making fun of ourselves.' BEN STILLER, the film's writer, director and star, saying it spoofs the entertainment industry
Islam
'We thought it was not a good time.' Random House spokeswoman CAROL SCHNEIDER, on canceling publication of The Jewel of Medina, a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride, for fear it would spark violence
'I envisioned that my book would be a bridge builder.' SHERRY JONES, the novel's author, saying she was shocked by the decision
'I do not espouse censorship of any kind, but I do value my right to critique those who abuse the past.' DENISE SPELLBERG, an Islamic-history scholar who was consulted by Random House, blasting the book for turning "sacred history into soft-core porn"
Blood Sport
'The culture, the custom of the Cajun people, it's gone.' CHRIS DAUGHDRILL, who breeds fighting roosters near New Orleans, after Louisiana became the last state to outlaw cockfighting
'They've still got cockfighting in every state. They just hide it from the law.' ELIZABETH BARRAS, whose husband ran a Louisiana cockfighting pit for 14 years, on the ban's futility
Sources: Guardian; Reuters; New York Times; Washington Post; AP; Bloomberg; AP
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