‘He told me, “You screw things up, I’m gonna haunt you.” When it starts talking, we’re all in trouble.’
— Rosemont’s acting Mayor Bradley Stephens, son of the late Mayor Donald Stephens, about a tree in the suburb that some say has a likeness of the late mayor’s face
‘I responded to his comment with my right hand.’
— Alabama state Sen. Charles Bishop, who punched fellow Sen. Lowell Barron in the head during an argument in the legislative chamber
‘I stand before you as America’s 66th secretary of state, and if I serve out my term … there will not have been a white male secretary of state for 12 years.’
— Condoleezza Rice, in remarks before the Economic Club of New York
‘I didn’t even know my neighbor had a kangaroo.’
— Jim Greider, on seeing the 6-foot-tall Australian marsupial, Skippy, who escaped from his owners, who live near Fountaintown, Ind. Skippy died and his death remains a mystery.
‘It’s not good given the history of Germany — we had it in East Germany, and now it’s up again. I’m not so sure it’s necessary.’
— German Ralf Klonschinski, on the 8-foot fence topped with razor wire that separated Group of Eight leaders from the rest of Germany for security during the Group of Eight summit at Heiligendamm
‘After I got over the initial shock, I prayed over this a long time. I feel that Pure Romance is my ministry.’
— Linette Servais, 50, of New Franken, Wis. A Catholic priest dismissed her as the organist of her church because she refused to quit her sales job with Pure Romance, a company that sells sex toys at home parties.
‘We live here because we don’t like people. We like animals.’
— Hobby farmer Marvin Raymond of Antioch, applauding the decision by Antioch school officials not to build a high school in an area where farmettes proliferate
