Verbatim: Jul. 21, 2003

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"There's no question we've got a security issue in Iraq. And we're going to have to deal with it person by person. We're going to have to remain tough." GEORGE W. BUSH, on the continuing attacks on American soldiers in Iraq

"We have found the smoking gun." SCOTT HUBBARD, Columbia Accident Investigation Board member, after a test in which a chunk of foam insulation, in a simulation of the Columbia accident, was fired at shuttle wing parts and blew open a 16-in. hole

"This Schulz probably grew up taking part in noisy burping contests after drinking gigantic amounts of beer and gorging himself on fried potatoes." STEFANO STEFANI, Italy's Under Secretary for Tourism, on Martin Schulz, a German Deputy in the European Parliament, in the latest episode of Italian-German sniping, following a public spat between Schulz and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

"You should only get AIDS and die, you pig." MICHAEL SAVAGE, vitriolic host of MSNBC's Savage Nation, who was fired for his remarks to a gay caller. Savage later said he thought he was off the air and talking to a crank caller

"We were committed to doing...what is best for the foundation, which is to stay with a man who has been an exemplary leader." KATHRYN S. FULLER, board member of the Ford Foundation, on why the private foundation decided to keep as chairman former Xerox CEO Paul Allaire, even though the SEC barred him from serving as chairman of a public corporation for five years, part of a settlement agreement on securities-fraud charges

"I'm very proud: I got 100." PETER JENNINGS, ABC World News Tonight anchor and Canadian native, on the test he was required to take to become a U.S. citizen

"Mom." TERRY WALLIS, 39, speaking his first word after coming out of a coma he had been in since a 1984 car accident, in response to his mother's question, "Who is here?"

Sources: Washington Post; AP; New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; New York Times; Ottawa Citizen; AP