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Monday, Apr. 04, 2005

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"In order for the six-party talks to restart, there should be the right justifications and conditions. This means an explicit apology from the United States for the 'outpost of tyranny' remark."
HAN SONG RYOL, deputy chief of North Korea's U.N. mission, calling for the U.S. to retract Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on the Hermit Kingdom and to agree to discuss mutual nuclear disarmament

"The best we can get is the status quo. The crisis continues."
LOVEMORE MADHUKU, chairman of the pro-democracy National Constitutional Assembly in Zimbabwe, where the increasingly authoritarian President Robert Mugabe was reelected last week amidst allegations of vote-rigging

"I think he was too nice a man, not sufficiently young and limber. He wasn't a street fighter."
LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's founding father, on former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's inability to quell widespread dissatisfaction with his administration

"It's quite sad and ironic that these religious figures are coming together around such a negative message."
HAGAI EL-AD, executive director of gay-rights group Jerusalem Open House, on united protests by Islamic, Jewish and Christian religious leaders against a planned gay festival in Jerusalem

"You just can't take away these girls' right to work and earn a living."
MANJIT SINGH SETHI, president of the Fight For Rights of Bar Owners' Association, after India's Maharashtra state said last week that it would revoke the licenses of bars featuring dancing women

"[It was] the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."
JANE FONDA, actress, apologizing for her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site in protest against the U.S. war effort, in an interview with U.S. television program 60 Minutes

"I hate these people."
PRINCE CHARLES, grumbling to his sons at a press conference during the royal family's Swiss ski holiday. The prince, who will marry longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles this week, was unaware that his comments were picked up by a microphone