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open quoteIt's a product of mythical proportions. They're not saying the iPhone will ... bring world peace, but that it will do everything else. It's impossible to live up to these expectations.close quote

Roger Entner, of market-research firm IAG. Apple's new cell phone debuts June 29.

 
 
open quoteI will address my own personal history regarding steroids. I will not discuss in any fashion any other individual.close quote

New York Yankee Jason Giambi, on agreeing to cooperate with a steroid investigation

 
 
open quoteThink she's trying to get the Mafia vote? I think most of them have lost the right to vote. I hope.close quote

Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, on a Hillary Clinton campaign commercial that parodies the final scene of "The Sopranos"

 
 
open quoteOur strategy is to demonstrate to the Palestinians in a very tangible way that moderate leadership, through a process of dialogue and negotiations, can achieve much more for the Palestinians than the extremists ever will.close quote

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev, on insurgent conflicts occurring in the Gaza Strip. Israel, among other nations, has scheduled a mediation summit in Egypt.

 
 
August 12, 2007
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open quoteI'm claustrophobic and my cell is really small. I was going a little crazy ... but I'm getting used to it.close quote

Paris Hilton, from prison

 
 
open quoteAmerica does not have any intention of being the world's jailer.close quote

White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino, on a jail that will be built in Afghanistan to hold some of the prisoners currently at Guantánamo Bay

 
 
open quoteIt's sort of like going to the fair and waiting on the main act to get here.close quote

Athens, Ala., Mayor Dan Williams, as he awaited President George W. Bush. It was the first known time a sitting president has visited the town.

 
 
open quoteThis event is about the firemen who were lost, honoring them and their families. It is not a political event and shouldn't be politicized in any way.close quote

Jeff Zack, of the International Association of Firefighters, after presidential candidates came to mourn the loss of nine South Carolina firefighters killed in a blaze

 
 
Reader Rachel Grimes of Waycross, Ga., submitted this quote:
open quoteLet's get real here. Fox and CBS and all of them are in the business of nonstop soft porn, but God forbid we should use a condom in the pursuit of sexual pleasure.close quote

Mark Crispin Miller, a media critic, on the networks' decision not to accept a Trojan advertisement encouraging condom use

 
 
open quoteAmerica does not have any intention of being the world's jailer.close quote

White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino, on a jail that will be built in Afghanistan to hold some of the prisoners currently at Guantánamo Bay

 
 
Quotation sources: Scientific American, AP, New York Daily News, AP, USA Today, AP(2), Athens News Courier, Reuters, New York Times
 
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