Verbatim

“What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger.”
SHEHZAD TANWEER, one of the four suicide bombers who struck London on July 7, 2005, on a video recorded before the assault and aired by al-Jazeera last week on the first anniversary of the attack

“We cannot stand idly by while the rule of law, the moral order and the integrity of our institutions … are destroyed by this bogus President.”
DANILO LIM, Philippine Brigadier-General, in a Feb. 24 videotaped address in which he withdrew his support for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Lim and several others may face court-martial after the tape implicated them in an alleged plot against the President

“We have no intention of drowning in the Gaza swamp.”
AMIR PERETZ, Israeli Defense Minister, saying his country does not plan to fully reoccupy Gaza. Israel seized three small sectors of the territory last week as a buffer against Palestinian missile fire, which has showered southern Israel since hostilities escalated two weeks ago following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants

“Everybody has a civil war. We had ours. We got stronger. Maybe they need to have theirs and get it over with.”
JOSEPH HAMLIN, U.S. Marine lance corporal stationed in Ramadi, on Iraq’s escalating Sunni-Shi’ite violence

“It got to the stage deep in the fifth set where I was about to ask the umpire, ‘Can we just arm-wrestle for it?'”
MARK KNOWLES, Bahamian tennis player who, together with doubles partner Daniel Nestor, defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry after 6 hr. 9 min. of play in Wimbledon’s longest-ever match

“Betting on baseball gets boring.”
KEN MOORE, graphic designer in Massachusetts, one of thousands of gamblers to have bet in foreign online casinos on how many hurricanes will hit the U.S. in 2006. Online betting is illegal in the U.S.