Verbatim
'I'm 100% confident that we'll be friends forever.' SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italy's Prime Minister, toasting President Bush at the White House
'We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.' THOMAS J. DART, sheriff of Cook County, Ill., on suspending foreclosure evictions in the Chicago area because renters were not being properly notified about their landlords' financial problems
'I don't want to be like every other fighter and do it one more time. That's obviously when it gets dangerous.' OSCAR DE LA HOYA, world-champion boxer, on plans to retire before he is permanently injured. His upcoming match against Filipino Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the most profitable fight in boxing history
'We know HIV causes AIDS.' BARBARA HOGAN, South Africa's new Health Minister, reversing a decade of discredited government policies on the virus
'It just goes to show how the ocean keeps its secrets very well.' DEMIAN CHAPMAN, scientist with New York's Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, after a virgin shark gave birth--the second known instance of parthenogenesis in sharks
'Probably close to zero.' HILLARY CLINTON, New York Senator and onetime Democratic presidential hopeful, on the chances she might run for President again
'The first thing is to find a bank I can put it in.' ARAVIND ADIGA, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger, on what he'll do with the $87,000 in prize money
Back & Forth:
Troopergate
'If you read the report, you'll see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a Cabinet member.'
SARAH PALIN, Republican vice-presidential hopeful, when asked about an Alaskan legislative panel that concluded she abused her power as governor by pressuring Walter Monegan (below), then the state's public-safety commissioner, to fire a state trooper over a family dispute
'Governor offers Orwellian spin.'
EDITORS OF THE ALASKA DAILY NEWS, blasting Palin for denying that the panel's report found her guilty of violating state ethics laws
Iraq
'They were lying to me.'
JEAN FEGGINS, mother of Private First Class Albert Nelson, claiming military officials lied about how her son died in Iraq after a video surfaced that seems to show his death by friendly fire
'Fratricide did not occur.'
PAUL BOYCE, Army spokesman, saying Nelson was killed by enemy mortars
LEXICON
Pirate Czar n.--A Cabinet-level job created by the recently signed antipiracy bill to oversee cases of copyright infringement and illegal downloading
USAGE: "The Pirate Czar will protect giant media companies from, well, from you." --NPR, Oct. 14, 2008
Sources: Times of London; Chicago Tribune; Vanity Fair; AP; Reuters; Fox News; the Guardian
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