Verbatim

"If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my Administration."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on the controversy over the leaked identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. He had previously promised to fire anyone "involved" in the leak regardless of criminal charges

"The problem is not in Pakistan; the problem is in England."
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistani President, rejecting criticism of his country as a source of terrorism after the disclosure that at least three of the July 7 London bombers may have visited madrasahs in Pakistan

"It's a game, as you'll see. I am a prisoner of the Iraqi government, but that government was appointed by the Americans."
SADDAM HUSSEIN, former Iraqi dictator, complaining to a judge about lack of access to his lawyer and other restrictions

"What has been achieved is recognition by the U.S. that ... India should have the same benefits and rights as a nuclear weapons state."
SHYAM SARAN, Indian Foreign Secretary, after the Bush Administration agreed to dismantle an international ban on sales of nuclear energy technology to India following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington

"He's good in every way, except he's not a woman."
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, commenting on John Roberts, Bush's nominee to replace her on the high court

"I am about the only person they did not rough up."
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, after members of her delegation and the media were forcibly blocked from her meeting with President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan

"There'll be several thousand pagans in Melbourne celebrating this news under the full moon tonight."
GAVIN ANDREW, Pagan Awareness Network spokesman, after the Australian state of Victoria introduced legislation to repeal a 200-year-old anti-witchcraft law