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"Our answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full nuclear cycle is one phrase—we say: Be angry and die of this anger."
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, following his announcement that Iran had successfully enriched uranium

"I think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning to operate and tell that country how to operate."
ERIC SCHMIDT, Google CEO, responding to criticism over Google's willingness to comply with China's censorship laws for the recent launch of its local-language search engine

"Last time I read the Bible, there was no requirement to be checking passports."
CAROL VEGA, demonstrator from Puerto Rico, at a march in Washington protesting U.S. legislation on illegal immigration that would tighten U.S. borders and punish churches and other groups helping undocumented workers

"This is a very difficult and sad day for all of us." YISRAEL MAIMON, Israeli Cabinet Secretary, at a meeting to declare former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon—in a coma following his Jan. 4 stroke—unfit for office, formally ending his five-year rule

"Don't think of me as a 14-year-old, since all these troubles have made me older; I won't regret my actions. I'll behave the way I think I should!" ANNE FRANK, in a 1944 letter to her father that was released last week, protesting after she was forbidden to spend time alone with a young man hiding from the Nazis with the Franks in Amsterdam

"Maybe beauty is the final step to end violence and preach world peace after all." TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding

"I'll take Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront." JOHN PRESCOTT, British Deputy Prime Minister, when asked which actor he would want to play him in a film of his life. The former seaman's union activist ruled out British movie star Hugh Grant as being "new Labour, not old Labour"

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