Verbatim: May 26, 2003

“The United States will find the killers, and they will learn the meaning of American justice…Just ask the Taliban.” GEORGE BUSH on the al-Qaeda-linked car bombings that killed at least 30 people, including Americans, in Saudi Arabia

“It’s like the Texas you see in the movies.” ENAS HAMDANI, Iraqi doctor, on the lawlessness in Iraq

“I think we have good control, but we may need to police up some meatheads.” LLOYD AUSTIN, Brigadier General of the Third Infantry Division, on providing security in Iraq

“He thought I was some kind of airhead academic, and I thought he was rather an arrogant young member of Congress. Probably we were both right.” DICK CHENEY, at an awards ceremony, recalling his first meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in 1968

“It’s all true. I was 19 years old.” MARION “MIMI” FAHNESTOCK, now 60, church administrator, admitting that from 1962 to 1963 she had an affair with John F. Kennedy while she was a White House intern

“When the guy from the White House tells you to take your tie off, you don’t ask why.” BRIAN BOSMA, Indiana House Republican, minority leader, who, while attending a speech by President Bush, was asked to remove his tie so audience members would look like ordinary people

“I’m like a little baby left at a doorstep, needing a woman to take care of me. Maybe I’ll just have to date for the rest of my life. Or maybe the love of my life is yet to come.” TED TURNER on his attempt to find a new life now that he lost billions of dollars’ worth of AOL Time Warner stock and stepped down as vice chairman of the company

“I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn’t belong out here.” VIJAY SINGH, golf pro, on Annika Sorenstam playing in the Colonial tournament, where she will become the first woman in 58 years to compete on the PGA Tour. Singh later apologized and said his comments were misunderstood

Sources: AP; Washington Post; New York Times (2); New York Daily News; AP; FORTUNE; AP