VERBATIM
"He's unable to hold a discussion for more than the length of a TV soundbite."
WOLFGANG SCHAUBLE, ally of Helmut Kohl, on the German Chancellor's political challenger Gerhard Schroder
"Sure I would like to shake his hand. I have clean hands. I would not give him any diseases."
FIDEL CASTRO, Cuban leader, on U.S. President Bill Clinton
"A few years ago he couldn't have done that. The mobsters would have stopped him at the fish market."
RUDOLPH GIULIANI, New York City mayor, at the premiere of Godzilla, on the movie monster's path of destruction through the city
"The whole use of using what a critic has to say has been cheapened by quote whores, and at least you can't misquote thumbs."
ROGER EBERT, popular American movie reviewer, who rates films with a simple thumbs up or down