Verbatim: Oct. 29, 2007

'[One] 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 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 Chavez's TV show

'Frankly, it's time for the establishment of a Palestinian state.'

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, who said that ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of President Bush's "highest priorities"

'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

'He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again.'

LARRY CRAIG, Republican Senator from Idaho (right), complaining that former friend Mitt Romney abandoned him after Craig's airport-restroom sex-sting scandal

'I feel compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are needed to travel to my hometown.'

ROBIN HAYES, North Carolina Republican Representative, after learning that House Homeland Security Committee staffers were required to be immunized against hepatitis A and B, diphtheria and influenza before attending a NASCAR race

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