Verbatim

"America, you lost!" ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, al-Qaeda conspirator, after a federal jury recommended a sentence of life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks

"Mr. Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to quote T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper." LEONIE BRINKEMA, U.S. federal judge, sentencing Moussaoui to life in a super-maximum security prison

"The time has come ... The looting by foreign companies has ended." EVO MORALES, President of Bolivia, after nationalizing the country's oil and gas industries

"It don't work, it don't work." JOSEPH L. CLARK, Ohio death-row inmate, after his executioners struggled for half an hour to find a noncollapsed vein in which to inject a lethal dose of drugs

"Russia has a choice to make ... None of us believes Russia is fated to become an enemy." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, in the Bush Administration's strongest public criticism yet of Vladimir Putin's Russia, rebuking the Kremlin for restricting citizens' rights and using oil resources as "tools of blackmail and intimidation"

"We are cleaning up Congress the way teenagers clean up their bedrooms, and the result will be the same mess." BRIAN BAIRD, Democratic Representative from Washington, on the narrow passage of a lobbying-reform bill that critics say is too weak

"My whole life has been a speed bump." HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic Senator from New York, on failing to achieve her childhood ambitions of becoming an Olympic athlete, an astronaut, a doctor, a scientist or a mathematician

"Nightlife can mean anything. We can provide you a very valuable experience that will hit your soul and your mind and send you home sober." PRINCE SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ, head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Commission for Tourism, announcing that the government would begin issuing nonreligious foreign-tourist visas for the country, where alcohol is illegal and nightclubs are scarce

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