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"If there's one thing I learned, it's that if you want to interrupt the President of the most powerful nation in the world while he's delivering his inaugural address, it's going to cost you about $25."
JEREMIAH JENKINS, Harvard Divinity School student who loudly booed Bush's speech and was arrested for disorderly conduct, jailed for a night and then fined

"They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life."
BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service

"People want to kill me just because of a few pictures."
LYNDDIE ENGLAND, U.S. Army private, on death threats she has received since her appearance in photos showing the abuse of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison

"Our mothers, our wives, our children are victims from this tragedy. We would never ambush any convoy with aid for them."
TENGKU MUCKSALMINA, rebel leader in Banda Aceh, dismissing claims by the Indonesian government that insurgents might try to steal relief supplies

"Each person has a mission on earth. My mission was to prove that women who want to have children can do it."
ADRIANA ILIESCU, 66-year-old Romanian thought to be the world's oldest mother, on giving birth last week to a daughter, Eliza Maria, after nine years of fertility treatment

"It's foolish not only because it doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons."
CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb