Verbatim

‘My experience in Iraq is that despite having been shot seven times, it is very great.’ MOSES MATSIKO, one of an estimated 10,000 Ugandans working in private security in Iraq

‘Mr. Medvedev is not a vodka personality. Mr. Putin is.’ STANISLAV KAUFMAN, Russian businessman, explaining why Putinka vodka, named for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is outselling a brand named for President Dmitri Medvedev

‘We are terrorists to the bone.’ KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED, along with four other accused 9/11 plotters, defending their actions in a six-page war-crimes court filing

‘I am prepared to take my fair share of the Green Revolution on my shoulders. I am less keen on having it in my face.’ PETER MANDELSON, Britain’s Business Secretary, after an assailant threw green custard on him to protest the construction of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport

‘Even today, Tibetans in Tibet live in constant fear.’ THE DALAI LAMA, marking the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising

‘April 13-1861 Washington thank God we have a government Jonth Dillon.’ JONATHAN DILLON, watchmaker, in a newly discovered message engraved in a pocket watch repaired for Abraham Lincoln on the day after the Civil War began

‘It’s like the Battle of Stalingrad. Any sensible person would want both of them to lose.’ ANDREW FERGUSON, editor at the Weekly Standard, on the series of debates between liberal comedian Bill Maher and conservative author Ann Coulter

Back & Forth:

Media

‘If only I’d listened to CNBC, I’d have $1 million today–provided I had started with $100 million.’ JON STEWART, Daily Show host, lampooning the business network through a video montage of bad stock-market predictions made by CNBC analysts

‘Almost every stock is down! Any stock you recommended is bad. You know, Warren Buffett, I could run tapes from him–he would look like a complete fool.’ JIM CRAMER, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, defending the network and saying the CNBC clips were taken out of context

Internet

‘Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation.’ THOMAS DART, sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, after filing a lawsuit to ban the classified-ad website’s Erotic Services section

‘Frankly, Sheriff Dart’s actions mystify me.’ Craigslist CEO JIM BUCKMASTER, saying the volume of ads for erotic services had dropped 90% to 95% in Chicago and four other U.S. cities since tougher measures were put in place last year

Politics

‘The tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency.’ CHARLES FREEMAN, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, after withdrawing from consideration as chairman of the National Intelligence Council because of “distortions” by pro-Israel lobbyists

‘If it had simply been a dispute about Middle East policy, he would have survived.’ Representative MARK KIRK (R., Ill.), saying Freeman’s job as head of the Saudi-funded Middle East Policy Council tarnished his objectivity

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Sources: Christian Science Monitor; Wall Street Journal; AP; BBC; Reuters; New York Times (2)