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"I run for President to be a champion of regular people...This President has an Administration that is run largely by insiders and, too often, for insiders." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina, on his bid for the White House in 2004

"I have no heart for somebody who starves his folks." GEORGE W. BUSH, denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il

"It's a very humbling occasion. Kenyans have given me a challenge." MWAI KIBAKI, newly elected democratic President of Kenya, on succeeding the repressive party that ruled the country for 39 years

"If at the end of my term of office every Brazilian has the opportunity to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, then I will have completed my mission in life." LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, former factory worker and labor-union leader who took office last week as President of Brazil

"It's really kind of cool. Of course, it's sort of odd to think you're sitting on the same toilet F.D.R. sat on." STEPHEN STROMBERG, Harvard undergraduate using Franklin Delano Roosevelt's old dorm room, opened for the first time in years because of a housing crunch

Sources: Washington Post; New York Times (3); Chicago Tribune