Verbatim

'Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here.'
WAHEED ARSHAD, Pakistani Major General, on reports that the U.S. may expand military and CIA authority to pursue Islamic militants in Pakistan

'If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one.'
PHILIP S. BARIE, chief of the division of critical care at New York–Presbyterian Hospital, on the recuperation of Alcides Moreno, a 37-year-old window washer who fell 47 stories last month

'We should not resort to violence even if we have differences.'
MAUMOON GAYOOM, President of the Maldives, after an attempt to assassinate him was foiled when a boy scout waiting to greet the island nation's leader grabbed the attacker's knife as he lunged out of a crowd

'This is who I am. This is my life.'
SERGEANT DARREN MANZELLA, U.S. Army medic and a decorated veteran of Iraq, discussing his homosexuality in a Jan. 8 press conference. Manzella has been openly gay since August 2006, despite the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy; its critics have argued that his case proves the policy is arbitrarily enforced

'They should either kill me or organize a second round of elections.'
LEVAN GACHECHILADZE, Georgian opposition leader, after his resounding defeat by pro-Western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili in the country's Jan. 5 Presidential elections. Gachechiladze claimed the voting was rigged

'This is the first red carpet that I've really walked down where I didn't have to think about holding in my stomach.'
HALLE BERRY, on being pregnant, while accepting the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan. 5