Verbatim: May 5, 2003

"He's my man; he was great. Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there." GEORGE BUSH, on Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq's former Information Minister, known for his bombastic denials that the U.S. was winning the war

"This is our heritage. How can we do this to ourselves?" NAMIR IBRAHIM JAMIL, Iraqi pianist who voluntarily returned priceless artifacts to the National Museum of Iraq, saying he took them to protect them from looting

"Yes." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, when asked if France would suffer consequences for opposing the U.S.-led war

"If we took all the money we're spending on security and threw it out the window, I'd feel just as safe." BOB KERREY, president of the New School in New York City and former Democratic Senator, on post--Sept. 11 security measures

"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever, to my knowledge, included homosexuality...It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be." RICK SANTORUM, Pennsylvania Senator and Republican Party conference chairman, in an interview with an AP reporter

"I'm sorry. I didn't think I was going to talk about 'man on dog' with a United States Senator; it's sort of freaking me out." LARA JAKES JORDAN, AP reporter, during her interview with Santorum

"I was never a bad person. I made some mistakes, but I just needed to mature. I'm doing that." MONICA LEWINSKY, former White House intern, in an interview about her new job as host of Fox's reality show Mr. Personality

"He should be so lucky." ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC correspondent and wife of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, on a typo in ABC's World News Tonight's closed captioning that said Greenspan was recovering from surgery for an "enlarged prostitute"

Sources: NBC; New York Times; The Charlie Rose Show; New York Magazine; AP (2); USA Today; Washington Post