‘I wish I could take everything he did back.’
–Yvette Harris, on her son, 16-year-old Michael Pace, charged with shooting honor student Blair Holt on a CTA bus
‘They were afraid of being branded unpatriotic. I’m troubled by the fact that we were so shockingly vulnerable to being manipulated.’
–Former Vice President Al Gore, who says the media and Congress did not question President Bush’s statements that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
‘I did not hold the keys to the kingdom as some have suggested.’
–Monica M. Goodling, a former Department of Justice official who was the agency’s liaison to the White House, on hiring practices
‘I think what they’ve decided finally to do is to play good cop, bad cop instead of bad cop, bad cop as they’ve been doing for six years.’
–GOP consultant Rich Galen, who says Vice President Dick Cheney is playing the role of foreign-policy heavy while President Bush makes overtures to Democrats
‘I think … people need to get ready for what’s coming up in our society.’
–Frieda Birnbaum, a 60-year-old Saddle River, N.J., psychologist, who gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section
‘There is a harsh reality here: When it comes to food, ‘Made in China’ is now a warning label in the United States.’
–Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), on potentially deadly products reaching U.S. shores from China
‘What you’re seeing is Boomers colliding with an industry that hasn’t changed in 100 years.’
–Mark Duffey, chief executive of the Houston-based Everest Funeral Package LLC, on the Baby Boomers who want non-traditional funerals
‘Is it possible to be quoted yawning?’
–Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, on Clinton’s take on the recent release of two unflattering books about her.
‘In cities, we chase furniture; in rural areas it’s cattle, sheep, horses, buckets and nails. There’s nothing slipperier than a crushed carrot.’
–Greg Williams, who has worked 27 years for the California Highway Patrol, on the hazards of road debris
‘I’m just surprised at how, almost 30 years after I worked on the ?Evening News? as the first woman producer, that Katie [Couric] is having such a tough time being accepted by the public, which seems to prefer the news from white guys, and now that Charlie’s [Gibson] doing so well, from older white guys. I guess they want the reassurance of a Walter Cronkite.’
–Linda Mason, CBS News senior vice president of standards and special projects
‘There’s gonna be people, just like little kids, smoking in the bathroom. I can’t keep an eye on all of it, and I don’t plan to raise a lot of hell about it.’
–Bob Dietz, a smoker who owns bars in Marshall and Paris in eastern Illinois, on passage of a state law barring smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
