Verbatim: Aug. 28, 2006

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"Your unprecedented holy war and steadfastness are beyond the limits of my description. It's a divine victory. It is a victory for Islam." AYATULLAH ALI KHAMENEI, Iran's Supreme Leader, lauding Hizballah after a cease-fire was declared between the Lebanese militants and Israel

"The wiretapping program here in litigation has indisputably been continued for at least five years ... obviously in violation of the Fourth Amendment." ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR, federal judge, ruling that the NSA's no-warrant surveillance program violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure

"We could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy--or even crazier--within the U.S. government." RAUL CASTRO, Defense Minister and acting President of Cuba, on why he mobilized tens of thousands of troops shortly after the illness of his brother Fidel was announced three weeks ago

"Those are the people who have been overcharging us--selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables ... First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs. " ANDREW YOUNG, civil rights leader, ex--U.N. ambassador and Wal-Mart lobbyist, on why the retail titan is right to displace urban mom-and-pop shops. He later apologized and resigned his Wal-Mart post

"It's a 'No Ice Ball Left Behind' policy." MIKE BROWN, planetary astronomer, on an International Astronomical Union proposal to redefine what a planet is. Dozens of solar-system bodies could gain planet status under the new, broader rules

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Sources: AP; U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan; AP (2); New York Times