Verbatim

'Why don't you shut up?'
JUAN CARLOS I, King of Spain, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar a "fascist" during a summit in Chile

'This has changed our reality.'
DILMA ROUSSEFF, chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the discovery of huge oil reserves off the nation's coast that could turn Brazil into one of the world's biggest oil producers

'You can't just keep rolling over us like this.'
BARBARA BOXER, U.S. Senator, after Congress dealt President Bush the first veto override of his Administration, on a $23.2 billion water-resources bill

'My name's Frank Gehry, and my buildings don't leak.'
FRANK GEHRY, architect of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, referring to the lawsuit recently filed against him by MIT, which says his flawed design of the school's $300 million Stata Center caused mold, leaks and drainage problems

'My wife is pleased with it. The Chancellor is not.'
FRANZ MÜENTEFERING, top Social Democrat in Germany's coalition government headed by Christian Democrat Chancellor Angela Merkel, on his decision to step down as Vice Chancellor in order to take care of his wife, who is suffering from cancer

'You ask me how good he can be? I can't say that. But I think he'll be better than me.'
YAO MING, all-star center for the Houston Rockets, on his fellow Chinese basketball player, rookie Yi Jianlian. The Rockets defeated Yi's Milwaukee Bucks in the two players' heavily hyped first-ever face-off, which drew as many as 200 million viewers in China