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"Our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people."
TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, condemning last week's terrorist attack in London

"I think the idea is to get back to normal as quickly as possible. That's the best way to show them it isn't going to work."
PAUL BATTY, manager of a London bookstore near the sites of the King's Cross subway and bus bombings, on how Britons are coping with the terrorist attack

"He has to clearly and publicly recognize that Tibet is an inseparable part of China and [that] Taiwan is also an inseparable part of China."
LIU JIANCHAO, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, reaffirming the conditions necessary for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet from exile, speaking on the day before the Buddhist spiritual leader's 70th birthday

"I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision."
ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in the development of nuclear weapons

"It's on the Internet. I looked it up."
MARTHA STEWART, revealing to a Vanity Fair interviewer that she knows how to remove the electronic monitoring device she is required to wear on her ankle

"He told me if there is anything ... he could do, to not be afraid to call him."
ERROL ROSE, whose 15-year-old son, Christopher, was killed for his iPod, on a phone call of condolence he received from Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs

"I think I've found my limitations."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, after injuring two fingers in a mountain-biking mishap when he crashed into a police officer in Scotland