Verbatim

'Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here.'

WAHEED ARSHAD, Pakistani Major General, denying 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

'It's always easier if you're doing something hard if you have other people to do it with.'

MICK CORNETT, Oklahoma City mayor, challenging the city's residents--among the most obese in the U.S.--to shed a collective 1 million pounds in the New Year

'If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.'

JESSE VENTURA, former Minnesota Governor and retired professional wrestler, railing against politics and organized religion in his new book, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!

'These animals are not some kind of freaks of nature.'

JAMES HODGES, president of the American Meat Institute Foundation, on cloned livestock, whose meat and milk the FDA is expected to declare safe for consumption

'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

Sources: AP; New York Times; AP (2); Wall Street Journal; PEOPLE