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"You go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
DONALD RUMSFELD, in response to Wilson

"The result has clearly shown how cruel, cold-blooded and inhumane the Kim Jong Il regime is."
SAKIE YOKOTA, mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese student abducted to North Korea in 1977, on Pyongyang's attempt to pass off other people's remains as those of her daughter

"They are ethnic Europeans. They cannot be Asians."
MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, former Malaysian Prime Minister, arguing that Australia should be excluded from an East Asia summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur next year

"I don't know why the terrorists haven't poisoned our food supply yet, because it's so easy to do."
TOMMY THOMPSON, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, in a warning about potential bioterror attacks that prompted the Food and Drug Administration to adopt new guidelines against food contamination

"It is no exaggeration to view corruption as a cancer that threatens this country's economic, political and social development."
CHARLES RAY, U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, on the Southeast Asian nation's alleged misuse of foreign aid and estimated annual losses of up to $500 million to corruption

"Regardless of any trivia question, the answer is 'Wayne Gretzky.'"
TIP from the book How to Speak Canadian, Eh?, part of a $24.95 "Go Canadian" kit that helps Americans camouflage themselves as Canadians when traveling abroad