Verbatim: Aug. 15, 2005

“If you don’t leave today, certainly you will leave tomorrow, [with] tens of thousands of dead and double that figure in disabled and wounded.”

AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command, in a video aired last week on al-Jazeera, threatening more American casualties if the U.S. does not withdraw from Iraq

“Let no one be in any doubt. The rules of the game are changing.”

TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, promising stricter antiterrorism measures, which would, among other things, allow the government to shut down mosques and deport individuals for promoting violent extremism

“The critical issue now is, Can we make enough vaccine, given the well-known inability of the vaccine industry to make enough vaccine?”

ANTHONY FAUCI, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tempering his otherwise upbeat announcement that scientists have successfully tested in humans a vaccine to protect against avian flu

“It looks like this big patient is cured.”

STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle’s heat shields upon re-entry

“Tonight was a victory for democracy. People had a real choice.”

PAUL HACKETT, Iraq veteran and Democrat who lost a House seat by only 3,573 votes in a heavily Republican district in Ohio, in a special election viewed by both parties as a prelude to the 2006 midterm elections

“Once again, they want to lay it off on Eve. Nothing’s changed.”

MARY JANE MCGRAW, leader of a Catholic parishioners group, on the Portland, Ore., archdiocese once telling a woman, who was suing for child support for a seminarian’s son, that she should have used birth control

“Billy Idol called–he wants his look back.”

JENNIFER ANISTON, in her first interview since she and Brad Pitt split up, on her ex-husband’s new hairdo

Sources: AP; Washington Post; New York Times; USA Today; New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Vanity Fair