Verbatim

"I assure you, I will never surrender."
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, President of the Philippines, rejecting calls for her to resign amid allegations of election fraud

"You would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their Gulags, or some mad regime."
DICK DURBIN, U.S. Democratic Senator, on reports of abusive behavior by American interrogators toward prisoners at Guantánamo Bay

"They've never eaten better. They've never been treated better."
DAVID DUNCAN, U.S. Republican Congressman, displaying a tray of lemon-baked fish and oven-fried chicken, which he said was reflective of the menu at Guantánamo

"This item should not contain forbidden speech such as profanity. Please enter a different word for this item."
ERROR MESSAGE appearing on the mainland Chinese version of Microsoft's MSN Spaces blog site when a user enters words such as "democracy," "freedom," "human rights" or "Taiwan independence." A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is abiding by Chinese laws

"If the President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives."
KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels

"The processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records. It is the juiciest target for an individual who wants account numbers. It is a honeypot for identity thieves."
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE, senior consul for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., on a security breach at a credit-card payment-processing company in Arizona. More than 40 million accounts may have been exposed to fraud

"She said that she had taken to calling me a son ... I wish I could get them to adopt Hillary."
BILL CLINTON, former U.S. President, on his recent closeness with Barbara Bush and former President George Bush, after their recent collaboration on tsunami-relief fund raising