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'You might want to adopt.'
MILLA JOVOVICH, actress and model, joking about how she gained 65 lbs. (about 30 kg) during the first four months of her first pregnancy. She is due to give birth in November

'Whether they show him on video, on the radio, on the phone, it's more of the same. He's a political corpse.'
NINOSKA PEREZ, a member of the anti-Castro Cuban Liberty Council, on Fidel Castro's first live speech since 2006, called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's TV show

'Frankly, it's time for the establishment of a Palestinian state.'
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, after Israel's Prime Minister openly showed readiness to share control of Jerusalem with Palestine

'He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again.'
LARRY CRAIG, Republican Senator from Idaho, complaining that former friend Mitt Romney abandoned him after Craig's airport-restroom sex-sting scandal

'People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution ... When people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place.'
DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, comparing the territory's campaign for universal suffrage to the social upheaval caused by Mao Zedong's anti-rightist purges in the 1960s, during a radio interview. Tsang apologized for his comments after an outcry from pro-democracy lawmakers

'We can't close our eyes to the danger.'
ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Oct. 15 to discuss the potential threat posed by Iran